Belgium
The long journey home
With my bags safely tucked away at the station, I cycled away to somewhere more appealing. I just wanted to find a small café bar
Jamie Shannon
September 5, 2015
With my bags safely tucked away at the station, I cycled away to somewhere more appealing. I just wanted to find a small café bar
Having booked into the hotel, I thought I might go out outside to explore the surrounding neighbourhoods and see what the city was actually like,
After passing through the small border town, I spent the next half an hour, and to my utter surprise and relief, gliding downhill all the
Although I really enjoyed my time in Barcelona, I felt the same way I always feel when in a large city. I felt frustration; with
I ended up only staying for one day in Bordeaux. As beautiful a city as it is, I do get immensely frustrated sometimes when I’m
With some much needed rest in Nantes and having now seen a giant mechanical walking elephant, I set off two days later, and made my
What with the difficulty and sheer frustration in reaching Paris a few days ago, I was determined not to make the same mistakes on my
It felt good to be in a city again, a little crowded and hurried perhaps and completely different from the countryside, but that’s what gives
From Tournai, I continued south west across the border to Rumes. A gentleman waited on the path for me to pass, and even though I
I thought that, this being the countryside, I would find ample opportunities to camp but this proved simply not to be the case. At the