Those hills must of taken it out of us, we both slept like babies, waking up at 9am. Oh dear, this is late, even for us. We have lots of work to do, dry washing, shopping, ride up some hills. We got moving. Will went on shopping duty, I got onto the washing, and packing up the sleeping gear. By the time we'd done everything and eaten some healthy muesli (with chocolate flakes, it is hard to get cereal without chocolate here) and had a coffee, it was after 11am.
Our little lonely camp. It was very comfortable.
We are following a Belgium cycle route, RV6, and luckily Davo GPS, found it too, so it made navigating pretty good today. The route is marked with Blue and Yellow lines, on poles, houses, signs, what ever, and you really have to look, so if we missed one, Davo would keep us onto it.
These are the marks we need to look for. Sometimes just paint on light poles.
We did three kilometres before the first 2nd gear hill, and from there it was much the same as yesterday, as far as the hills go. Up for long slow hills, but the downs were much more satisfying. We had two fantastic runs down, one was 5.5kms, and man was that fun. The road surface was new, there was not a single car, and the road wound gently through the forest, coming out into farmland and then up into a village. Woo hoo hoo!
Decided to stop at this grand old church for morning tea.
Today we reached a milestone of 3000kms, which is amazing! We can't believe we've actually ridden all that way. We stopped for a snacko after 11kms and then realised we'd done it. So we celebrated with delicious pastries and a rest.
Then realised we'd clocked over the 3K mark. Super!
Lovely memorial to civilians and military killed in both World Wars. Sad.
Only half way up this long hill....not too steep, but bloody slow going.
See, still going up! Better be good going down!
Creepy old house, pretty cool!
Trying to get some speed up to help me up the other side was tough into the wind.
Another big event today, was the amount of wild life we saw today. Lots of Fat bottom cows, some brown fury sheep, something Will is calling a hedgehog, but I think was more squirrel/glider like, three little baby wild pigs, and the biggest surprise to us of all, a field of Black footed Wallabies. What? The poor buggers must be freezing, I asked Will if we could break them out, but he said no.
This is the last little piggy, the others buggered off and left him for dead.
Wallabies in Belgium? It looked like a zoo, they had peacocks and other birds too.
Will speeding down this hill that went for over 5kms. Awesome!
This was our last big hill to climb. Thank goodness.
We rode through Nassogne, which is the highest point of our route, at 550mtrs, so from this point on, there will still be lots of ups, but more down, down, down. Yay! We had to veer a couple of kays off our route to find a camping ground, but it was a good flat run to Rochefort.
Nice looking town, very clean and pretty street frontage.
Our home for tonight, right across from the toilets.
After we got our tent sorted, Will took all our devices and hid in the toilets for an hour or so getting them charged. He said he felt like a junkie, he is, a power junkie. He also had a shower, and I just tried to dry the rest of our washing, in the breeze.
It's bloody cold, and looking like rain. The weather gurus say no rain till Tuesday, but if you ask my left knee, it is going to rain. Ugh!
I remember Joshuah going to the Denver Zoo in Colorado in December and seeing a kangaroo in the snow...he wanted to bust him out too and take him back to Australia! Congratulations on 3000kms...great effort!
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