Vlietbeek

50 today! Yay! Had a lovely, leisurely breakfast, eggs of course and fizz plus tea ’n cake. We then packed up and drove off to our last day/night on our epic road trip.
I was recommended to visit Kortrijk as it’s on our way to Calais.
A nice little town, easily walkable with usual historic buildings. Gary bought me a pair of birthday earrings and we had a mooch ending up in an Irish bar of all places for dinner. Decided we wanted to do something fun so went bowling afterwards. Nice little bowling alley and it was good fun then walked back towards the van.
By the river we’d seen someone earlier in the day setting up some stuff but didn’t know what. On our way back we could see there was a small machine in the water spraying fine mist of water into the air in a fan shape. It turned out it looked like they were rehearsing a light show (possibly students?). Images/video was projected on to the water mist creating a visual display visible from all angles/sides. They played atmospheric music to accompany. It was beautiful. A fitting end to my birthday. Almost like it had been planned…
Slept well on our last night. The van has been great to us. New mattress topper has come into its own, no sore hips and we haven’t really been under each other’s feet. All in all a very memorable trip that has both felt like we’ve been away for ever yet it’s gone so quick.
Up bright and early to get the ferry back. If only we could get out of the car park! (We did, finally).
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