Sat in Dunkerque ferry port composing this final blog.
On Sunday evening we arrived in Belgium in the pouring rain again…our holiday joke, we’re in Belgium, it must be raining! Our campsite was very close to the Luxembourg border. At 6.00pm on Sunday evening we went out to get some bread, having been given directions by our campsite owner. We drove through farmland, through a couple of small villages and suddenly came to an out of town retail park just inside the Luxembourg border on the edge of a small village. It was quite a surreal experience. As well as bread and fuel we could have bought watches, cameras, clothes…a complete duty free shopping experience!
Monday morning and rain again as we packed up and drove up through Belgium to Bruges. This is a major European lorry route (from the ferry ports at Dunkerque, Oostend and Zeebrugge down into central Europe) and the Brussels ring road motorway was like one giant lorry traffic jam…worse than the M5/M6 interchange at Birmingham.
Finally arrived in Bruges at 4.30 and had a pleasant few hours there wandering around and having a spot of dinner of course! We know the City quite well having spent a long weekend there before and it was good to see the sights again…a very pretty place (but no photographs, we have so many from last time).
A short final drive to Dunkerque and a stopover for a couple of hours at a service station. Bit scary as a prospective illegal immigrant was wandering around trying to see if there were any open vehicles he could get into. The French police having coffee nearby weren’t at all bothered…not their problem!
Anyway, Ferry is just pulling out now and we’ll be back in Cardiff by lunch so a final Auf Wiedersehen!
A & H
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