Rain Rain Rain

Ok progress has been slow. On good days we cqn easily knock out 50 miles, but with 6 days of rain we´re a bit behind schedule, but this is our holiday and we´re going to enjoy it. It was glorious weather in blighty as we camped on the White Cliffs of Dover.

We´ve been eating really well, courtesy or Kate´s excellent food choosing and cooking skills and we´ve mastered the art of semi-discreet wild camping (if we´d slept in today we would have been woken up by the noise of chainsaws 5 meters away!!!)

Anyway, we´re progressing well through Belgium, which is an amazing country. We went round Tournai and saw its world herritage site. There are lots of lovely small roads here, but anything that is a little busy has a cycle lane, right upto 90kph dual carriageways which we try to avoid.
Off to the Ardennes and Bastogne next and then Luxembourg.

We LOVE Belgium and the Belgians. Right now I´m using a computer for free in a Belgian Tourist Office in Cerfontaine, and the lady just given me Coffee and a Belgian Chocolate for FREE. The French on the other hand refused to serve us after 2pm, overcharged us for Peaches and got all arsey when Kate demanded a refund in her best sign language. As the queue grew behind her they gave her the 1.34 Euros without fully understanding what the problem was.

Anyway, some photos of so far. (in reverse chronological order)

View from the tent, Mauberge FR

Tournai BL

A rare bit of sun in Dunkirk.




Kate in Dover.