We have been in four different countries today! After using the services, and I did a qi gong workout as I was stiff, we left Düren at about 09:30, and it wasn't long before we had crossed the German border into the Netherlands, and some time later we stopped, I think in Belgium, for the SW to have coffee, and I walked up to the shop (it was a proper service area, not just a rest area) and back to stretch my legs. Not that I bought anything, but just a nice bit of exercise.
It is always a long, dreary drive across Belgium, especially when it's raining, which it was - not heavily, but mizzling. By the time we stopped for lunch, though, we were not all that far from Oostende, and just before the E40 turns South towards Calais, the sun came out, and it wasn't long before we were in France, and then only half an hour more to this aire in Marck, where we started off on the first night. It is a very nice aire,
although small, and especially in demand just now while the big one in Calais is being refurbished, hopefully reopening next month. We did get a space (obviously), although not on the side with electricity. The Swan Whisperer went for a walk, but I have had a lazy afternoon doing not very much! Delightful.
And tomorrow we will be home. I wish we were just setting out.....
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