It's taken me a few days to catch up after holiday but I have to say all in all it was a excellent trip. Some bits were not so good. Belgium roads are terrible in many ways and having to do an emergency doctor visit whilst in Luxembourg due to my daughter getting a bad bought of Bronchitis is something I could do without but she got healthy within 24 hours and the views and scenery whilst we travelled were truly awesome.
The final couple of days were spent travelling from Brussels to Calais and then from Calais to home. We left Brussels in the morning and headed north to Bruges. Bruges is a wonderful historic city full of brilliant things to see and explore. Unfortunately I saw none of them due to crazy traffic and insufficient parking. After an hour of trying to find somewhere to stop we headed back out of the city, parked up by the edge of a canal and had a picnic. Heading on up to Oostende we picked up the coast road and trundled along that to Dunkirk. Had to stop a couple of times, once to paddle in a very cold north sea and a second time to watch the kite surfers. Those kite surfers are amazing. don't know how they had such amazing control but the ability to leap 20ft into the air and come back down safely is impressive.
On the final day the brilliant weather finally gave way. It drizzled in Calais and by the time we came out of the tunnel in Dover we had achieved torrential downpour. Welcome back to Britain!
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