No rain. Alleluia!
Today was an off-road sort of day. Through some forests, along fields. Over the EuroStar tracks.
Interesting path-finding. Guidebook (or navigator – me) not always flawless. But saw more Via Francigena signs than we'd ever seen before. But sometimes the signs are knocked down.
Lots of mud. Wendy doesn't like mud.
Passed (somewhere – it wasn't marked) the Field of the Cloth of Gold where, in 1520, Henry VIII had a big summit with Francis I of France. Went on for 3 weeks. Cost a lot of money for a lot of "Big Man" conspicuous consumption and general national showing off. Not much accomplished. Some things don't change. (They chose drier weather -- June. Smart move.).
Getting close to Licques we met an interesting Belgian couple. They were “geo-caching” – a new form of competition where you use GPS to find hidden messages. They were doing some kind of Via Francigena geo-caching. They walked the Camino de Santiago last fall. They said the sign-age there was superb. VF “more of an adventure”. Yeah.
Reached the Camping des Trois Pays at 3pm where we rented a chalet for a very reasonable E40. The restaurant was closed for the season, but madame rustled us up a superb salad with magnificent fries. MacDonald's – not even close. All washed down with Kronenbourg. And so to bed....
20 km, 6 hours
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