It's called a rest day but in reality it isn't. From time to time we take a day off the tour to discover a town and surroundings and on this occasion, that is exactly what we did.
Early breakie of muesli, greek yoghurt and milk and we were good to go by 9.30am on our bikes. Making our way through the town on cobbled stone roads (not the most comfortable way to ride a bike) to the railway station, noticed how deserted the town looked compared to yesterday. Stopped a few times as you do to take these photos.
Slowly made our way to the station to buy tickets for tomorrow's 4 hour train ride to Aarlon for the short 36km ride from there to Luxembourg, our final destination where we are planning to spend 3 mights before making our way by public transport to Zurich. To date, we have ridden 1,541km (including today's rides) with one short stage to go from Aarlon to Luxembourg and a planned 70km on one of our rest days in Luxembourg.
Back to today, Belgian National Day, we made our way to Damme from the railway station on a beautiful bike path. Must be very popular, understandably, with the local cyclist as they were out in large numbers in their Lycra's. Damme, itself is nothing to write home about but the riding paths and infrastructure in and around it is quite something. Check out these photos taken during the ride.
Made our way back to our accommodation for lunch and a short rest and to catch up with news and emails etc.. Following a short rest, made our way back to the town centre on foot for a waffle for Ursi, which she couldn't get her self to buy and to check restaurants for tonight's dinner. We settled on T'Brugs Pitahuis and then it was back to our accommodation. The thinking behind doing this is to go out as late as possible to see Bruges under lights but the problem is, it doesn't get dark until very late as we experienced last night.
Following another chill time in our accommodation (also gave me the opportunity to watch the end of The British Open golf), we made our way back to the T'Brugs Pitahuis where Ursi had a Falafel something and Chicken with Salad for me.
It's almost 10pm and still daylight so we are not likely to see Bruges under lights. Anyway, we have an early start tomorrow, so it's not a bad idea to have an early night.
Early breakie of muesli, greek yoghurt and milk and we were good to go by 9.30am on our bikes. Making our way through the town on cobbled stone roads (not the most comfortable way to ride a bike) to the railway station, noticed how deserted the town looked compared to yesterday. Stopped a few times as you do to take these photos.
Slowly made our way to the station to buy tickets for tomorrow's 4 hour train ride to Aarlon for the short 36km ride from there to Luxembourg, our final destination where we are planning to spend 3 mights before making our way by public transport to Zurich. To date, we have ridden 1,541km (including today's rides) with one short stage to go from Aarlon to Luxembourg and a planned 70km on one of our rest days in Luxembourg.
Back to today, Belgian National Day, we made our way to Damme from the railway station on a beautiful bike path. Must be very popular, understandably, with the local cyclist as they were out in large numbers in their Lycra's. Damme, itself is nothing to write home about but the riding paths and infrastructure in and around it is quite something. Check out these photos taken during the ride.
Made our way back to our accommodation for lunch and a short rest and to catch up with news and emails etc.. Following a short rest, made our way back to the town centre on foot for a waffle for Ursi, which she couldn't get her self to buy and to check restaurants for tonight's dinner. We settled on T'Brugs Pitahuis and then it was back to our accommodation. The thinking behind doing this is to go out as late as possible to see Bruges under lights but the problem is, it doesn't get dark until very late as we experienced last night.
Following another chill time in our accommodation (also gave me the opportunity to watch the end of The British Open golf), we made our way back to the T'Brugs Pitahuis where Ursi had a Falafel something and Chicken with Salad for me.
It's almost 10pm and still daylight so we are not likely to see Bruges under lights. Anyway, we have an early start tomorrow, so it's not a bad idea to have an early night.
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