Cycling in Belgium is so easy. The North Sea cycle route (which covers 6000 kms by the way) is so well sign-posted. It makes the cycling so much easier.

We left our cheap and cheerful apartment and continued to cycle East. Thefirst 16 kms were cycling on a promenade along the waterfront.

It’s fun being in a new country. We are not sure which language we should be speaking, but everyone we have met speaks fluent English. They actually seem to like talking to us, whereas the French seem to find tourists such a chore. It is such a refreshing change.

We stopped at an Aldi and Mike got himself an energy drink and I picked up a couple of cokes. At least I thought they were cokes and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

What I thought was coke is actually beer

We did a gentle 59 kms today. We are due a rest day, but the cycling is so easy that we are resting on our cycling days.
We have managed to find ourselves in the most expensive city in Belgium, and we’re not in Bruges. It’s a town called Knokke and it’s pretty much on the border of Holland. We checked out a few hotels and they are all really expensive. We are becoming a bit soft and enjoying the comforts of the hotels. We had better toughen up a bit before we do our around the world cycle ride.

The food here is about 3 times more expensive than France. We were not very happy about this as the menu appears to be exactly the same. Oh well, we’ll be in Holland tomorrow.

Arrived in Belgium

Leftover junk from the war