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Stage 21 - Arlon to Luxembourg City 37km (22-Jul-2019)


Early start to take the train from Bruges to Arlon (more about that later), mind you we took our time with the breakie. Anyway, we got to the station with half an hour to spare before the arrival of our train. Why Arlon, you may ask? We always planned to visit Luxembourg and spent a long time to figure out how to fit it into our schedule and in the end it made the most sense to catch a train from Bruges to Arlon which is pretty close to the Luxembourg border. So there we were at the station on a public holiday in Belgium on a beautiful day. Must admit the weather has been very kind to us.


Overall, Belgium has surprised us, especially the people were very friendly and kind, the towns of Ghent and Bruges and the cycling infrastructure. 
We had one change of trains in Brussels Sud and weren't impressed when we learnt that there was no lift to get us and our bikes to the platform. So moi had to walk the bikes loaded with panniers, down and then up to the new platform. Anyway, 4 hours later we were in Arlon, by now, it was seriously warm. Out came the Garmin, loaded the route to Luxembourg city created by my mate, Ellwood and we were off with little expectations of the ride. Disappointed we were not; we were rapt. It was a beautiful route on fantastic bike paths through forests and fields, a tad more up and down than we had experienced to date as our bodies reminded us. Furthermore, we made more use of the low gears on our bikes today on this short route than we did in total over the last 6 weeks.






First impression of Luxembourg was, how clean it is and this playground, check it out below. Wish I was kid again. 


Luxembourg also reminds us of Switzerland not just because of the hills but also because of flowers in pots and gorgeous landscapes.






Moving along we finally got to our accommodation, another Airbnb hosted by Jeanine, a lovely lady, originally from France. Got great views from her apartment, check out this sunset.


It had been a long day, so we decided to stay indoors for dinner; a delicious tuna salad made by Ursi. Happy days.
No blog tomorrow. The next blog, our last of the tour will be published the day after tomorrow, Wednesday.


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