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Around four o'clock we arrive in Bouillon and we park the bikes in front of a cafe. On the terrace we
have a well deserved cappuccino. We needed that! The road to Bouillon was hard but pleasant work
because it is mostly corners so no time to relax. We realy had a good time driving that road. The
weather is not to bad either. It's mostly dry, only now and then a light shower and sometimes the
sun came looking through the clouds.
After our coffee break in Bouillon, we fill our gastanks again an drive on to La Roche.
Suddenly it is getting dark and after a while it starts to rain hard. First we look for shelter under
the trees in a forrest but after some times the rain won't stop so we decide to press on and the
raingear is finaly getting out of the bags.
Rainsuit blues
Now dressed in our raingear, we drive on, unfortunately in the pouring rain on a wet slippery road. I do
miss my full face helmet now. At speeds above 80 km/h, the cold rain in my face s not a pleasant feeling.
At an overpass of the A4, we stop to check our route on the map. When we also check our watches, we see it is
much later than we anticipated so we decide not to go to La Roche but to drive to Dinant and to schedule a
coffebraek there.
After a few kilometers on the A4 we take the first offramp and follow the beautifull N40 to Dinant.
In Dinant we park the bikes on the embankment of the river and go to a nice restaurant with a terrace
for a cappuccino. Our waitress looks like Liza Minelli (the moviestar) but 30 years younger.
After a nice cappuccino, we go back to the bikes.
Coffeebreak in Dinant.
When I walk towards my Sportster, I see some wet dirt on the front break caliper. I check if I may be loosing
some breakfluid but I don't, so I guess it's just dirt from the wet road. I clean the caliper and also put a little
lubrication on the rear belt of the Sportster and we're ready to go, following the Maas, back to Namen.
It's getting late now so from Namen we take the highway to Brussel. At Wavre we make our last stop together at the
gasstation on the highway. We fill our tanks and then Bruno heads to Brussel and Jan and I go to Antwerp.
After a few kilometers we see a stranded biker with a flat rear tire on the side of the road. We stop to see if
we can help but he already called home with his mobile phone and a friend with who he was driving together was
already on his way back with a trailer. Now he is Ok and we can't help him, we go on to Antwerp.
The ring around Antwerp is not to busy so after a short time, we're driving back to Holland again. We leave
the highway at the Zandvliet/Ossendrecht exit and take some nice scenery backroads to our home/camping.
Today we traveled almost 600 km and we had a wonderfull day!
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