Flanders by Bike - Day 5

Sun !!! We have sun !!!!!

The weather so far has been cool and cloudy .... good for cycling but a little drab for our photos. Today, the sun popped out from behind the clouds and we basked 😊

We had a 9.00am start and a 46 km route to Ghent, although the barge mooring was 10 km on the other side of the city so it made for a longer day. And there were quite a few cobbled areas today. Our eyeballs were jiggling, and our bum-bones were smashed. People who ride regularly in these areas have bikes with suspension. All we could do was hang on tight and stay upright.

Quite a relaxed ride today. A lazy coffee stop, a castle, lovely scenery ... the day whizzed by and we arrived in Ghent mid afternoon. We'll be back here in a couple of days so, instead of trying to see the sights, we found a sunny spot at an outdoor cafe in the main square, ordered a couple of beers and just watched the world go by for a while. Our tour guide, Marcel, joined us and we chatted the afternoon away until it was time to hoist our cobble-weary backsides onto the bike for the ride out of town to the barge mooring.Read more