It was a lazy start to the day being Sunday and all. The quirky hotel we stayed at included breakfast which was super dooper cool.

It was lucky we dosed up on as much breakfast as we could eat and as much coffee as we could drink as it was a really hilly start to the ride.

Most of the riding today was on main roads so not as nice as other days. On a couple of occasions we were cycling on the main roads wondering why cars kept tooting at us. It was getting really annoying. Then all of a sudden a cycle lane would sprout up out of the middle of nowhere. We wouldn’t have seen the cycle lane if it wasn’t for a random guy on a bike on it. This is another of the annoying things about France. They do not signpost anything!

It was Sunday and things shut down in France on Sundays. This gave a kind of ghost town feel when cycling through towns. We stumbled upon a junk market (car boot or garage sale). We picked up some incense as this is a cheap (but smelly) way of keeping mosquitos away when camping.

The highlight of the day was finding a Decathlon store that was OPEN. Yes – you heard me. It was Sunday and a store was OPEN and it just happened to be our FAVOURITE store in the whole wide world (ask Tracy – she knows about Decathlon).

Decathlon stores have everything you could ever need. Cycle stuff, camping stuff, watersports stuff, golf stuff, in fact stuff to do with any sort of sports and it is soooo ridiculously cheap. I just wanted to buy everything – but alas – there was no room left on Mikes bike for him to carry it.

Anyway – we bought a couple of essential items. Mike needed a new rear tyre and I needed a mirror.

We also cycle past the channel tunnel. I hate tunnels but I’ve been through this one 4 times.

We then headed into Dunkirk and found a chain hotel for the night (nowhere near as cool as our quirky hotel last night and 15 euros more expensive).

Looking back at the town we just left

The channel tunnel

Some place (Hotel de Ville I think) with giant lolly scuptures outside