Sunday, 20 June, 2010 Similar to yesterday, cold and wet, so not much of an incentive to go explore the surroundings. Did go to the local church service though, very friendly lot, perhaps they thought we were potential parishioners as it looked like they could do with a few. Back home Ellie scraped together the […]

Saturday, 19 June, 2010 Rita and Theo left very early this morning for their holiday in Austria so we are now housesitting, home alone as it were, so we took the opportunity to do some necessary housekeeping such as washing of clothes, trimming of beard (me) and hair (both) and sorting our panniers out. First

Friday,  18 July, 2010 Yippee, we seem to be getting into some sort of routine again and didn’t forget to take the camera this time. Rita and Theo did their utmost to show us as much of the surrounding area as they could and we started in Dinant with a visit to the caves. A

Thursday, 17 June, 2010 Today I am the culprit, diligently packed the camera into the backpack only to leave the backpack in Theo’s garage so again no pics. Today the first priority was to get some new shorts for us as the current ones were first of all quite worn by being into contact with

Wednesday. June 16, 2010 Perhaps the interest has waned, perhaps it is my writing but I notice that the novelty has worn off and that I get very few comments anymore and as a consequence the drive to update the blog every day is also not quite there. It is, of course, also easier to

Tuesday, 15 June, 2010 Final day of our “Tour De France”, the last bit to my sister, Rita and her husband Theo. I had hoped for an easy, comfortable ride, ha, anything but. A strong wind blew from the north-east and guess which way we were cycling? On top of it there was some bickering

Monday, 14 June, 2010 Boo hoo, our final day in France, we took our time packing up and only started going at about 11 o’clock. We didn’t have that far to go but of course it wasn’t quite as easy as we had expected with some nasty ups and downs. Still, the villages were quite

Sunday, 13 June, 2010 We were warned that northern France would be a boring succession of wheat fields and I suppose in a way that is the case but on a bicycle you are so much a part of the landscape and things are different all the time on a smaller scale that we never

Saturday, June 12, 2010 On a bit of a dreary and overcast morning we first went to see the sights in town we had read about the night before in the tourist pamphlets. Never mind that most everything was closed, I still got some inspirational woodwork pictures and some others of some major crumblies of

Friday, 11 June, 2010 We said our farewells to the group of volunteers, quite touching actually how welcoming they have been and how apologetic about the plumbing hassles of the night before. So encouraging to see this dedicated and idealistic bunch of young people trying to make a difference. We had a quick spin around