Hotel Memphis Dunkerque

... part where there was 3 in a row! They all sold some amazingly presented food and after making some purchases we went for a quick walk around another church (I'm not religious, but I love looking through all the old, well built and presented buildings!).

On the way back to Calais, we went via Ypres, a city which was completely demolished during World War 1. The two main buildings in the centre of the city both ...

... ribs) where there was a rather amusing urinal (see picture).

We left Calais and headed for a campsite which wasn’t the greatest and didn’t have very nice bathroom facilities but at least it was a gorgeous night. We spent an hour or so with our heads sticking out of the van and enjoying the stars. Love those nights! The next day we made our way to Boulogne to see the sights (see next ...

... towns had 20 names while others had hundreds. In Ypres there was a large arch that led the way into the center of town. Upon closer inspection this arch is covered in all the names of all the soldiers who fought to keep Ypres free from the Germans occupation. It was November 8th so when we went to the arch there were already many poppy wreaths for the upcoming Remembrance Day.

The town of Ypres is small but its town square is looked ...

... these prices.

On our way back to Herentals, we realized that doing 140km/hr doens't seem to be fast enough for some people because we still had some drivers tailgating us regardless.

We're on the last stretch of our trip unfortunately. We leave tomorrow for Canada :(

We might head into Amsterdam for dinner later today, we're a bit exhausted from not sleeping well the ...

... the motorway at the first opportunity, and retraced our steps, along with the Landyprikkers, but we lost them shortly afterwards, as they sailed off missing the turning again.
We then followed the roadbook ok, but missed most of the things we should have seen along the route.
The Landyprikkers caught us up later, and we travelled together for a while.

... they served FLAPS lol what the hell......yet again another laughing fit after the joke made about meat and beavers, it hurt to laugh), anyway the waitress thought he was about to throw up in the menu.

Our friend that came on the rally with us, Irish Tash, was left with the bill of 73Euro. When she went to pay, she was told by the manager that she had to pay another 5 euro due to our behaviour causing 2 ...

... due to a couple of little incidents on the way. We had a new inverter delivered yesterday morning as the original failed on Friday so I attempted to install that this morning but ran out of time. We were making good time to Dover but we needed to fill up the gas before we left the country as we had no time to get a French adaptor. The pump we found filled ...

... We struggle on and are off to Brugge,Belgium....its apparently not too long a drive...about 1 hr or so.... Lucky us we got stuck in a bit of morning rush-hour...and so missed our exit....so it took us another hour or so before we finally found our way by fluke!! Not easy to understand signs when you have a limited (well almost non excised really!) french and dutch vocab! Anyway...we made it and were able to check in pretty much immediately....

... oil refinary on it, so i switch him off and drive into Bray Dunes. Wow, its like a wannabe Southsea/Vegas/Shithole, but with a beautiful beach. Sand as far as you can see (oil refinary in distance). Loads of kite surfers about, so i whip out my kite, and almost get dragged a mile by the 40mph winds! I just want something to go right today. Luckily something does go right, i get an early train home and finally get some sleep! Fin!

... my sandwich in Dunkerque, with fresh tomatoes from the vegetable stand (tasted like Filet Mignon).......My steak Frites dinner with Marc-Andre and Bernard at Le Petit Journal, a restautant owned by Alex (one of Marc's buddies....) Everything works by connections in France...thanks Marc for the French culture lessons! Had a hard time climbing the stairs tonight......I think my knees are officially fried...... See ya, Pat