Two week´s

After setting off from Calais, we enjoyed five days of all most continous rain as we pedalled though northern France and into Belgium. The good news is all our wet weather kit worked well (even if we did look like the hairy bikers) so it wasn´t too unpleasant. However, as we were unable to camp and had to stay in B & B´s, the bad weather made a big hole in our budget. Had our worst day´s cycling ever, getting through Lille to Tournai and a crap hotel.
On the plus side we have enjoyed some very good pedalling on cycle paths by the rivers and canals of Belgium and Luxembourg. Very peaceful, very scenic and very FLAT!
So far we have camped three times. Very cold but otherwise OK.
We are stuck in Trier, just into Germany with a broken freewheel on Tim´s bike (German bike stores are closed on Saturdays).
Once the bike´s fixed, we are heading across Germany to the Danube.