Today was forecast to rain, so we set the alarm for 7am to ensure we were away before it started. We hate packing up a wet tent.

We are really getting into the groove of cycling now. The first week was pretty hard, but we are getting fitter and really enjoying this second week. I’m even enjoying the hills a bit.

We stopped in a town called Bolougne sur Mer for lunch and to visit the tourist office. This is probably the ugliest town I have been to in France. It’s quite modern in a 70s fashion with ugly residential blocks.

However we did find out that Le Tour de France would not be crossing our path. We have been seeing signs that the roads would be closing all the way up the coast. So if you are watching the Tour de France on the 3rd July and the 4th July – you will see where we have just cycled through 🙂

We stopped after 73 kms at a nice town called Wissant – about 20 kms short of Calais. We were pretty tired and didn’t feel like camping. The hotels here seemed to be really expensive. There was a 1 star hotel for 120 euros! We didn’t stay there. We found a quirky little hotel for half the price and that included breakfast.

Our quirky little hotel had a restaurant downstairs so we decided to eat there, however they were full. It was a shame because it looked really nice.

We tried another restaurant. We went in and sat down, but it had a strange smell, the decor was dated and there was zero ambience, despite there being others eating there.

We got up to leave but the lady stopped us and asked why we were leaving. I had noticed there was no pizza on the menu. I didn’t want pizza but I didn’t want to hurt her feelings so I said that we wanted pizza. “Ah – she said. We are a restaurant – we don’t do pizza” then carried on to tell us where we could find pizza.

Anyway,we ended up at a pizza restaurant at the beach that was buzzing with people. We had a nice night and nice pizza!