I've sent an SOS to daughter Charlie and nephew Didee in the hope they can help!
We have had another rest day (I know i know, 2 in one week) but we needed to do some serious route planning. Yesterday was a funny and as it turned out a VERY long day. We cycled easily to Sedan (Is this where Sedan chairs came from ?) where we had our lunch time beer and whilst looking at a map were 'picked up' by a fellow french cyclist called Christian, who told us to follow him to avoid hills. He took us on a 3 hour detour and for sure at that time we did avoid major hills. It was a different story after he left us though as there were hills going UP (of course) in every direction. There was only one that defeated me and i promise you it was almost vertical! Anyway it turned out to be 7 hrs and 21 minutes in the saddle and about 87 kms. That brings our total up to 530.88 kms (330 miles) and we are now back in belgium in the delightful town of Tintigny. Neither of us have serious aches and pains and our bikes continue to behave beautifully. Tomorrow is a short hop (34 miles) to Luxembourg.
If anyone is able to pull a caravan over the Alps....it looks like Bruce wont be able to do it. We would need you for about 3 days, maybe four, from Luzerne in Switzerland on about the 27th May .
We are good at getting lost but we do know this picture doesn't show us travelling from LONDON TO FALMOUTH, but thats where we are heading next! Waterproofs are ready and we set off on the 9th march 2012.
