FNRttC The Fridays 2017 Tour On Tour Thread

[Fab Foodie]

Morning coffee in Veurne.....

Lunch, @StuartG about to drink an unfeasibly large beer...

Before tackling dessert....

Me on the other hand washed my baguette down with man's dessert :-)

In other news, the bike is going well....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Gone full on silly
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Snap!

 

[hopless500]

Prossecco o'clock at 05.55 on the ferry

 

[Fab Foodie]

View attachment 360165 Prossecco o'clock at 05.55 on the ferry

Chapeau!

 

[Fab Foodie]

7am Hotel Le Parisien...

 

[Fab Foodie]

Breakfast is promising....

 

[hopless500]

Bruges main square. Starting in the proper fashion.

 

[User169]

Top tip of the day: 't Velootje in Gent.

I think it's officially closed down, but it seems the owner still serves beer. Worth a nosey inside even if you don't have a beer. Prices are very uppish.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Top tip of the day: 't Velootje in Gent.

I think it's officially closed down, but it seems the owner still serves beer. Worth a nosey inside even if you don't have a beer. Prices are very uppish.

Is that the one with the old bikes hanging from the ceiling?

 

[User169]

Is that the one with the old bikes hanging from the ceiling?

Yes!

 

[srw]

Apparently we've booked the romantic package....

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Apparently we've booked the romantic package....

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why would you not?

 

[User169]

Top tip of the day..

Cafe Frape in Maastricht

 

[Hill Wimp]

What loon said Belgium was flat !!!

 

[srw]

What loon said Belgium was flat !!!

It was, indeed, unexpectedly lumpy. Despite our own late start (sleep being the best medicine for unwellness) we briefly overtook the main peleton while they stopped for lunch. Before meeting up with them and sending them on their way so we could have our own lunch.

That meant that we passed an ostrich farm, but also (following our Dutch fietsknoop app satnav lady rather than a carefully recced route) had bastard pavé and comedy offroading. And had to take the marked, high path above the canal on the north side rather than risk what was probably a fine, fast, flat Southbank route because the phone's signal gave out and we couldn't see a decent online map.

We also wasted an hour in Hasselt because somebody hadn't packed the 15mm spanner and the chain started jumping on the outskirts, so we had to find a bike shop so that we could adjust the eccentric BBs. But that did mean that @rvw got chatted up by an old bloke playing lute music (not Dowland, I think - perhaps something German through his phone on his bike).