After struggling to get out of Metz, but not as much as when
we were going in, the rest if the morning went smoothly. Yet again it was
rather cold, so windproof coats were the order of the day. It was very much the
case of trying to push hard in the morning so that we would gave more time in
the evening in the campsites. We passed as planned briefly into Luxembourg, but
by accident into Belgium. All good for racking up the countries we have visited
along the way. The landscape was like most of our experience in France, very
undulating and open.
Our lunch brake was made rather more interesting by various
food exchanges with our fellow picnickers. It started with some campers who
couldn’t eat all their watermelon, who gave some to us. We too couldn’t finish
it, so we passed some onto another set of picnickers. They very kindly gave us
some delicious cake in return.
We then plugged on to Douzy, where our campsite was for the
night. It was very cheap, only 14 Euros, but you could see why. Some of the
facilities were Spartan at best. There was no free Wifi, so we headed into town
to find some. The first place we stumbled upon was a rather nice hotel, so we
bought 2 cokes between the 3 of us and settled down to drink hem as slowly as
possible to maximise connection time. We booked our Eurotunnel ticket, and have
ambitiously planned to cut our final 4 days into 2. The plan being to give us a
true challenge to finish with. So for those who are interested we will arrive
in Winchester on Tuesday 26th August!!! How exciting! Hopefully see
some of you there…
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