Cool with drizzly rain most of the day, 12-15deg, 48km, av. 12.8km/hr, tot. 1251km. Today we entered our sixth country for this trip, Belgium. Steady but light rain throughout the night but it had eased to drizzle by the time we left for Ypres at 8:40am. It was so nice to be back on cycle paths, mostly beside canals. We made good time to our first stop at Comines, a twin town in France and Belgium, where for the life of us we couldn't find a coffee shop. Saw six ...

Rain or drizzle all day, 13-16deg, (doubt it got to 16) 46km, av. 16.7km/h, tot. 1203km. A little sleep-in (0615 instead of 0600) and then a leisurely brekky started the day. We discovered that the blog last night didn't load properly because of poor wifi so had to delete all the photos. Will try and put them on when we get decent wifi. A very ordinary day again weather wise but it wasn't going to stop us doing our planned ride to Fromelles. So raincoats on and o...

Rain and cool most of the day, 13-18deg, 2km, tot. 1157km. Woke to a view of constant rain out our motel window, so decided to have a training-day, play on words, funny hey, not. Wasn't anything on today's route that we had planned to stop for anyway. During the 38 minute train trip it rained fairly heavy the whole time. Left Arras on time and arrived at Lille at 10:03am, nearly 5 minutes late, aghast how terrible French Rail!! Went straight to the motel (Mr Beds...

Fine and sunny at first then partly cloudy, but no rain, 9-24deg, 72km, av. 16.7km/h, tot. 1155km. Nice breakfast then rode away at 7:45am into a clear and rather chilly morning. The only wind today was slight and behind us. What was the same as yesterday was the terrain, undulating again and a couple of testers to get our heart rates up. Wendy found a little more character however lost a little sense of humour along the way. Although we saw dozens of WW1 Cemeter...

Cloudy with some rain, 16-20deg, 78km, av. 18.5km/h, tot. 1,083km. Had a simple brekky at the motel and left at 8:25am under ominous looking skies and a gusty (up to 25km/h) side-wind, thank goodness. We sighted our first war cemetery about 20km out at Villers-Carbonnel, it was French. Considering the fact that there are 2,000 purely Military and another 1,000 civilian cemeteries where war causalities were buried there are plenty of opportunities for us to pay ou...