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- Tom’s monastery door
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- Arriving in Tom’s
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- Relaxing in his living room
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- Still relaxing in his living room
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- Our room was an old seminaries quarters
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- We had our own chapel
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- The chapels organ
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- Not the bars we were looking for
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- The chapel
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- David Rex
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- And himself
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- Our bridge descended to let us cross
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- These magical machines were dotted across Belgium satisfying our bread related needs 24 hours a day
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- We saw more cyclist in our first hour in Belgium than our whole time in the UK.
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- The scenery of the canals was interspersed with great amounts of industry
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- River bike
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- The Stella factory Leuven
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- Leuven city centre
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- It was very hot and with chocolate bars melting in the heat it was hard to keep the chocolate smudges of everything including the map
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- In the heat this guys got the right idea
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- Leuven Cathedral
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- The town hall with tributes to all the great contributors in Leuven history on the facade
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- A Tree and a Church
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- Hugo educating me on the finer points of Art History
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- Turns out ‘Klein trnkwasser’ means ‘Not drinkwater’ not ‘Clean drinking water as we had thought. We found this out the hard way.
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- The wetlands we camped beside, with a hot air ballon in the distance
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- Days in the hot panniers had turned our tastey curry into a fizzing, bubbling living mess. We decided it would be best if we didn’t use it for dinner, considering it fizzed up to the top of the container when I opened it.
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- Hugo looks weaily at the bubbling sauce
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- Mmmm plain lentils
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- Lentils With no sauce was a bit of a struggle
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- Found a nice little table and shelter to make camp at
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- Road out of the campsite
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- Cycling through an orchard
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- Lunch break in the shade
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- One of four huge locks
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- Easy riding along the canals
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- One of the bigger canals we came across
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- Where next?
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- Taking advantage of the great cycle routes through Belgium
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- What a happy chappy
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- Some trees
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- Great signage for bikes in the Netherlands
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- Evening Riding
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- Flat Belgium
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- More flat Belgium
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- There were shrines all over the place
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- An upside to staying in a campsite is the bar
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- OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
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- The start of the Ardennes
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- Looking for directions with the scallop shell pointing us towards Santiago
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- Cycling right passed this we stopped looked at each other and said was that a dead bloated cow, we cycled back and it turns out it was
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- Getting closer i was afraid it might explode
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- As if two photos of a dead bloated cow weren’t enough here’s a third
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- Ardennes cycle network
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- It was hot
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- Reservoir just before our campsite in Eifel Natural Park
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- Damn
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- Morning strech
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- Sun drying everything off
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- Unicorn Snail
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- You can’t really tell but this snail was huge
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don't hurry the journey 
I Know those snails! Huge fellows. BTW the number pointed cycling route network over here in Belgium is great! Don’t know if you noticed.. 🙂 I think that bridge is quite close by to where I am living.