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 We left France and headed into Belgium to see an old friend, Geert Callens, en route we met a French guy who asked where in Scotland we were from, when we said Perth he said he stayed in Crieff and Carnoustie for a while when he was doing his degree in Golf course design and he now owned a pitch and putt course nearby. He insisted on buying us a coffee and even offered us a place to stay! Amazing when you meet nice people!!

Onto Geert's house  which is a home from home, we met Evelyn for lunch and afterwards helped Geert set up for a dinner party the next day!! A very pleasant evening indeed.

Our new French pals

Geert, Fiona and Evelyn

At Ease

Ricard for pre dinner drinks

We left Geert on Sunday and headed to Guy and Karin's house near Gent for lunch and to nosey around his Workshop. Then onward to a hotel near the coast in Holland for the night in Noordwijk

Commando in for a service

Total rebuild on this one

Guy, Karin and Fiona

Nice Hotel

Strange

And then into Amsterdam to spend the night with another Norton Friend, Pamela, another brilliant night before heading for the ferry and back home

Pamela's Flat

Surrounded by water

We think this was a protest

On the ferry, the last supper

Even had a sweet

Welcome to Scotland

So thats it another Epic adventure bringing our total countries ridden in by Motorcycle to 63. It was hard sometimes, extreme temperatures and sometimes the food was challenging but we kept rolling on, next year we may stay closer to home as despite the many amazing things we have seen, ye canny beat Scotland.....dinnae tell anybody

Keep on keeping on

France

It is good to be back in France, a bit of camping and some hotels,  temperatures have been in the main pretty brutal and we were going to the Gironde area but it's on fire so we headed a bit further North.

We took the small roads right across France and despite it being slow it was brilliant, relaxed, hardly any traffic and good road surfaces , the only thing is you need to keep an eye on the speed. Having being on the receiving end of a through the post fine a few years ago I am now a bit more careful.

In the main it has been too hot to camp but we did manage a few days, at the last site our neighbour was a Guzzi owner who actually lived in Flers where we stopped for the night before we arrived in the campsite in the South of the Cherbourg peninsula.  

Now in Le Havre for a couple of days before making our way North towards Escalles on Friday. The pictures tell the story better than I can, keeping on keeping on.....

Hot

Rural France is lovely 

very nice

camping

enjoying 

vino

the following night, cooking in the field

the next day I forgot to take the tea strainer off the bike when I left, luckily it was still there when I got to the bike shop

we needed oil for a wee top up, ,not bad after 5000 Miles in very hot temperatures 

it was a bit cooler for a while

no idea

flers 

we were starving and the only place open at 6pm was an Indian, very good as well

Nice church

And impressive Fish Market

beer time

on the road again 

camping again, escaping the heat, in the shade

Nice site by the sea, we think that's Jersey in the distance

it got cooler at night thankfully 

Nice sunset

and moon

getting ready to go for a beer 

having a beer

art

on the road again, very hot, just outside Caen

le Havre

canny get food when you want it but can get beer !

streets scene

ships pass in the night

braw sunset from our balcony

Cathedral, 80% of Le Havre was flattened by allied Bombing in 1944 before D Day, most of the buildings are new

quirky place

very quirky

And that's all for now, keeping on keeping on .....