Day 22 - Monday 11th July - mileage 6389 - Valenciennes

Set a nice easy pace towards Reims and came across a nice hilltop town of Langres. This place was basically a fortified town on a hill. You could see why people had built it there it gave a fantastic view of all the surrounding land with plenty of time to batten up the hatches if you saw the enemy approaching with his army.


















This last picture is an adjacent hill with a huge statue of Madonna looking back at the town.

Later I stopped in a small lay-by at the side of a dual carriageway to reset Tomtom to another destination and Just as I was there a lorry went past and there was huge clanking and a large piece of metal fell of the lorry and landed right in the nearside lane next to me. I quickly nipped into the road and brought it back to the verge. I reckon I could well have saved somebody's life there because when I looked at the piece of metal it was all grey the same colour as the road, and no matter what location you put it in it always seemed to settle itself like a piece of anti-tank hardware with a spiked piece sitting upwards. Never thought to take a photo !!!

Somehow managed to travel on right into Belgium, which seemed to automatically depress me. Made my way back to France and eventually stopped the night at Valenciennes in an Ibis hotel.

Home tomorrow, but because I have no phone I have no way of contacting Jack, Jo, or Emma. Not only do I not have a phone, I don't know an tones phone numbers, because they stem all in my phone !!

Anyway if you read this Happy birthday Emma for tomorrow.

I think this will now be my last blog.

TOR

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