Day 20 - Fri. 02/09/2011

Departure Campsite: Domaine Chateau de Dieupart, Aywaille, Belgium (N 50.4763 E 5.68908)
Distance: 372 miles/599 km (today) 2912 miles/4686 km (total)

Our very last day of the holiday. We were up soon after 07:00 and had showers using 1 euro tokens we were given free of charge when we checked in (the showers were free on production of an ACSI card). The time allocated for the shower was long enough, but they weren't very warm. They were very clean, though.

This is a good site for a stopover on the way to, or from, the ferry terminal at Calais, so we will probably stay here again in the future.

Scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast, and the cloudy weather started to clear. I caught glimpses of a heron on the river we were camped by. Before leaving the site, we bought some cereal bars to eat on the journey from the supermarket next to the campsite. We left just after 10:00 and made our way to the ferry terminal at Calais, stopping at an aire to make lunch.

Day 19 - Thurs. 01/09/2011

Departure Campsite: Ourtal-Idyll, Gentingen, Germany (N 49.89885 E 6.23687)
Destination Campsite: Domaine Chateau de Dieupart, Aywaille, Belgium (N 50.4763 E 5.68908)
Distance: 80 miles/129 km (today) 2540 miles/4088 km (total)

We woke to a cold but very sunny morning. After walking down to the river to take some photographs we went back to the van for mushroom omelettes for breakfast. After breakfast, we went for another walk, this time with the kids (they played in the park for a while), before packing up and leaving.

On the way to our final campsite in Belgium, we parked in an interesting town in Luxembourg and walked around for about an hour or so, taking photographs. James bought a guitar keyring from one of the shops.

We stopped again for lunch in a layby after crossing the border into Belgium. Camembert and tomato baguettes.

We arrived at the Belgian campsite around 14:30. It was quite a nice site by a river in the grounds of an attractive old building. The receptionist spoke excellent English and allocated us our pitch. We set up camp and had a cup of tea in lovely sunny warm weather. It sounds like we were lucky, we were told the weather had not been very good until today. We walked into the village, which wasn't particularly pretty or clean and bought some ice creams from the supermarket. The kids bought some Belgium chocolate. On the way back, the kids played on a zip wire in the park.

We had Quorn escalopes, pesto pasta and vegetables for tea. The kids finished up with some hot chocolate and then we had an early night.