Hello there. We have got to Bruges in Belgium after a mostly successful ride. We left Cardiff on Simon's birthday, 1st August and made our way to Dover in six days. This involved me getting fit fast but are now both developing good cycling muscles! Mostly things have been good. We have camped in a variety of places, including farmers fields, ministry of defence fields, beaches, sand dunes and a friend's floor. There was a major setback in Folkestone when we were staying in a very un-dodgy capsite (flowers, lots of families and caravans). In the night there was strange rustling by our tent which we put down to an over-friendly badger. However, in the morning we realised that one of Simon's panniers had been nicked, someone had actually reached into the tent and fumbled around,
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