Beautiful Belgium

Our last night in Luxembourg brought us a massive thunder and lightning storm, like we’d never seen or heard before.  The thunder seemed to swirl around the camp and was so loud and angry it shook Mildred.  It certainly woke us up at 12.15am and then came the lightening.  This was very scary stuff, the sort of lightening you see on TV but never real life, alarms went off in the camp and village.  We watched the storm from our upstairs bedroom windows.  It was scary stuff as we were parked under a very massive tree, but after a while I figured the church steeple next door was more likely to be hit and the bell ringer, whom we reckoned was paid by the dong, would have been fried first.

When we woke later that morning the camp was calm and clear.

We cruised off via Brussels to Ghent, Belgium for the night staying at the city camp site.  We arrived about 3pm and decided to cycle their estimated 2 km into the city that afternoon then move on the next day.  The bike ride was more like 4km and not quite as simple as they made out so we biked about 5km on the way in, it was lovely so it didn’t really matter.

We wandered the town, stopped at the essential Belgium Chocolate shop, purchasing a sample for our after dinner treat.  Then through all the historical places, before finally stopping for the famous Belgium fritkat (hot chips).  When we left this shop it started to rain, so we hightailed it home on our bikes getting soaked in the process.

Belgium chocolates are very rich, so we didn’t even make a big dent in the small box we purchased, but they were/are oh so yummy!

Today we headed for Ieper, where our GPS (Simon) told us there was a camp right in the city centre, he lied it was a car park where the big self contained motorhouses could park for one night.  However we drove through the British War memorial and the town centre before heading to nearby Kemel. It was humbling driving past all the war cemeteries.