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Day 2: Bruges to Genk<\/h2>\n

After last night’s late arrival in Bruges, I was able to have a lie in this morning. I got up at 8 and went for breakfast at 08:30: Bacon, egg and beans to start the day!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I checked out of the hotel and took the short bus ride in to the City Centre. It was pouring with rain when I got on the bus but the rain had stopped by the time I reached the City Centre.<\/p>\n

The weather was like that the whole day: Raining one minute, warm and Sunny the next. I was constantly putting a coat on, then taking it off, then taking my jumper off, then putting layers back on! What fun!<\/p>\n

Once off the bus I walked to the Market Square and sat outdoors in one of the many caf\u00e9s\/tea rooms on the square. Lunch (a baguette) and a chocolate milkshake. That made up for yesterday evening’s traffic.<\/p>\n

I returned on the bus to my car, which I’d left at the hotel – it was almost 3 by the time I left Bruges. It was a 1 hour drive to my pit-stop: The Botanical Garden of Meise<\/a>. This was mostly on the Autosnelweg A10 but also on the R0 (Ring Brussel) – Brussels’ version of the M25.<\/p>\n

I had a good hour and a half wandering around the Botanical Garden, taking plenty of photos along the way. It was much bigger than I first realised though and I could easily have spent much longer there, had it not been closing time at 17:30.<\/p>\n

I left at closing time, and got back in to the car: From Meise it was another 1 hour drive – including more time on the R0 – to my second overnight stop in Genk, near the Dutch border.<\/p>\n

Its quite a posh hotel – the restaurant certainly is a posh one – so I stuck to the bar and just had a massive<\/em> spaghetti bolognese, for a fraction of the price of the starters in the restaurant. I then retired to my room to watch Eurovision.<\/p>\n

So: Tomorrow I will enter Germany; after a short drive on the motorway through the remainder of Belgium and then in to the Netherlands for a short amount of time, I will be on the German Autobahn.<\/p>\n

It will also be Sunday – so most HGVs won’t be on the Autobahns of Germany. If traffic isn’t too bad, I might be able to put my foot down once I get to a section of Autobahn with no speed limt. Or, alternatively, it will pour with rain, there’ll be loads of traffic, and I’ll have to drive to the conditions. Who knows!?<\/p>\n

Goede nacht.<\/span><\/p>\n

FH.<\/p>\n

Today’s Milage:<\/strong> 129 Miles
\nAccumulative Milage:<\/strong> 371 Miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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