The alarm woke us at 05:45 and we were quickly up and on our way to Folkestone to catch Le Shuttle. We are visiting Herpen in the Netherlands via Brugge. Herpen is between S'Hertegenbosch and Nijmegen and we are attending the 50th Wedding Anniversary of our friends Tiki and Nolly who we met whilst living in Greece in 1980. Tiki is Greek Cypriot and Nolly is Dutch; they met whilst Tiki was doing some training in the Netherlands.
The first part of the journey was wet but relatively quiet and we arrived in Folkestone in time to have a quick coffee and pain chocolat before boarding the shuttle before the one we were booked on.
On the other side on the channel we had sporadic rain on the journey to Damme just north of Brugge where we are staying for two nights before heading off to Herpen
The area around Damme is cycling heaven particularly for the LLW who has a serious aversion to hills. Once checked in and unloaded we were quickly on our bikes and enjoying riding around the local canals and countryside. It really is very lovely here and I have never seen so many people of all ages on bikes before!
It rained quite the heavily for a short time and we became very wet. However the LLW was quickly pacified with warm apple tart with cream and ice cream at a local hostelerie.
Back to our hotel Ter Polders for a short rest before dinner which featured a huge warm Fruits de Mers with linguine. Excellent!
After our early start we were ready for an early night.
The first part of the journey was wet but relatively quiet and we arrived in Folkestone in time to have a quick coffee and pain chocolat before boarding the shuttle before the one we were booked on.
On the other side on the channel we had sporadic rain on the journey to Damme just north of Brugge where we are staying for two nights before heading off to Herpen
The area around Damme is cycling heaven particularly for the LLW who has a serious aversion to hills. Once checked in and unloaded we were quickly on our bikes and enjoying riding around the local canals and countryside. It really is very lovely here and I have never seen so many people of all ages on bikes before!
It rained quite the heavily for a short time and we became very wet. However the LLW was quickly pacified with warm apple tart with cream and ice cream at a local hostelerie.
Back to our hotel Ter Polders for a short rest before dinner which featured a huge warm Fruits de Mers with linguine. Excellent!
After our early start we were ready for an early night.
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