Monday 26th June 2017

Today we came south and then west on motorways. We went through the Ruhr valley.

We crossed the Rhine on this bridge.

We traveled from Germany into the Netherlands passing close by the city of Eindhoven. However before too long we crossed from the  Netherlands into Belgium where we stopped briefly in the town of Lier, pictured here, to take on water.

From Lier we moved on the short distance to the town of Duffel and parked for the day on the banks of the moat of the world war one fort at Koningshooikt. Here's the view from the side door of our van.

We rode round the moat a couple of times on our bikes. There are some strange little huts on the waters edge. Possibly for fishing?

Ann is seen here zooming along on her bike! We couldn't go into the fort itself as the gate was locked. Apparently the fort had to be abandoned in 1914 when it came under attack from the Germans' super gun nicknamed "Big Bertha"!

A lot of geese and indeed other water foul frequent the moat ind its environs.

To day we traveled 155 miles (250 kilometres). We are at N51.08317 E4.56505