A long day, 75 k. The first half was pleasant enough through Countryside and small towns. But the reminder was on a bike lane alongside a busy high speed Highway. Don't mind the capitalization errors , the programmer slept through English class. Anyway it was not dangerous riding but not much fun either. When we reached namur, we had two problems. Number one we had a 1K very steep climb to our B&B. Number two the derailleur had gotten out of adjustment and we could not get into our small chainring for a good climbing gear. How were we to know? this was the first steep hill we have encountered on the whole trip. We finally reached our B&B too tired to do anything but shower and rest. A white tablecloth dinner and a bottle of wine improved our morale , but still it was a rough day.
We are now in a completely different area than the Netherlands and Northern Belgium. We saw one Hill before we reached leuven but the roads were dead flat until today. The terrain today was Rolling Hills until the difficult Hill at the end. Also, once we left leuven we left behind the Dutch language. Everything now is French and they do not speak any English as a rule.
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