Sunday 20th and Monday 21st - as mentioned in the previous page, we dossed
and lazed around for sun pm and the whole of Monday, enjoying the warm sunshine and the luxury of having a lot of grass to laze about on after the tarmac hardstandings of the Stellplatz.
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| 11th Tank Battalion Memorial, dedicated to a Sherman tank that fell upside-down off the bridge in Dec 1944 |
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| Camping Bon Accueil, Hesperange |
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| Hesperange, Luxembourg |
On Tuesday morning we went to the local supermarket to restock our supplies. That was a mistake! Fuel may be cheap in Luxembourg, but food certainly isn't. Moving on, we agreed that we found, in general terms, the Luxembourgians to be generally a miserable and stuck
up bunch, so we continued our journey across the ploughed fields that pass as
motorways in Belgium, getting stuck in huge traffic jams and finally ending up
in a little village called Thieu, famous
for the boat lifts on the central canal. We parked up on an informal aire by the canal and, in very humid weather, we wandered along the waterways to admire both the old and the new boat lifts. Both are equally Impressive - and massive. Walking back from the new lift we stumbled across a crowd of locals dressed in costume and chucking oranges about. It was some form of carnival and looked great fun. The band continued late into the evening and the hot and sticky weather was eventually eased by a thunderstorm.
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| Parking at Thieu |
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| The old Boat Lift |
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The 100m high Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift |
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Weird happenings involving lots of oranges
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Weds 23 May. We continued the move north, stopping near Lille at a massive shopping
centre called Englos Les Geants. However there are height barriers everywhere, so it is totally motorhome
unfriendly. They even had a sign pointing towards motorhome parking and when you turned off to follow the sign you came
face to face with a 2m barrier, thus having to reverse back into traffic.
Stupid bloody imbeciles. Wont be going back there again. Anyway, on to a very
busy Cite Europe, got out of the van and noticed how bloody cold is was - 13 degrees. Brrrrrrr. We did some shopping, then relaxed and watched a DVD (Quartet - brilliant film) in the
van.
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| Cite Europe |
On Thursday we thought that we would drive around to the tunnel terminal and make breakfast there rather than hang about on the aire. We booked in, went to park up, but were directed straight onto an empty train. So much for breakfast! We did stop at Ashford shopping mall for a quick mooch around and breakfast before moving on to Kelsey's farm in Bexley ready for a delightful couple of nights in Sarf East Larndarn.
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| Empty Train |
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| Ashford outlet |
After family duties on Friday, we met Sharon and James for a pint or two in the only decent place in Bromley (The Partridge) before heading home on Saturday morning.
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