Cycle Day 24 To Lieges and on to Ypres

We get up early and head off to the village shop to get some food which we eat in the village square. Groups of racing cyclists enter the square every ten minutes and zoom out again at the other end. The Belgians are keen road cyclists.

We head off still not really knowing where we are going. We are behind schedule and want to spend some time in Ypres so decide that we will cycle to Liege and try and catch a train there. Liege is shut down for the day as it's a local holiday but we manage to find the rather futuristic new railway station that is still being constructed and caught a train to Brussels 

and onto Ypres.

Ypres is an amazing little town - more on the WWI history tomorrow - but the town centre features an the enormous restored Cloth Hall - fully restored after WWI. 

Here it is now.

And here it is after the WWI bombardment by the Germans.

We find the local campsite and pitch our tent beside lots of British tourists.

Cycled 53.58 km

Busking earnings 0

No punctures