On the night this happened, I couldn't sleep and decided to go out for a walk.

There's a bridge over the A1 motorway behind the Campanille hotel where we have had the owner's days, that goes between Amsterdam and Germany. As such it's a major road freight artery and it is never really still. About a mile away it joins with the main North South motorway, the A 28, that takes all the national freight traffic to the North of the country. The junction is always visible from this bridge at night since it is a huge cloverleaf, and you can see no less than 6 traffic streams merging. In the summer evenings, the combined noise from the two motorways can be clearly heard when we're trying to barby/party in the back garden, and it can be remarkably intrusive.

I walked up to the bridge about 1 AM, and was quite surprised to find...

... absolutely no traffic at all. Nothing, no lorries, cars, nothing. Even the intersection was empty.

I stood up there for about half an hour until I got too cold, then walked home. It has affected everyone.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015