Where’s Bertie? This may become known as ‘our holiday at Harelbeke’, as that’s where he is again (the signage says the maximum stay is 72 hours with no return for 3 days. If they’d meant that you have to go away for 72 hours, or 3 nights, they should have said so. Thus, we decided that as we had left on Tuesday morning, it was acceptable to return on Thursday night).
Weather: Wednesday 15th: Rain for most of the day. Thursday 16th: lovely and sunny and warm.
A rainy day yesterday called for indoor activities, which suited us just fine as we’d already decided to visit the Musee des Beaux-Arts (or ‘the art gallery’ for those not of a linguistic bent) in Tournai. With the entry fee being just €2.60, we thought it worth a look. It was too, keeping us amused for a good hour and a half, even though it’s far from the biggest gallery we’ve ever visited. In fact, it must be amongst the smallest.
Mick got to study this piece for a good while, whilst I nipped off to powder my nose. He was quite taken with it. I’m not sure whether the detail will be visible in this snap.
On a nice day we might then have taken another walk around Tournai, but a nice day it was not, so we hot-footed it back to Bertie and left town. The Aire had not been a quiet place overnight, so there was no question of staying another night.
Instead we headed to a place to the east of Kortrijk, where there’s a motorhome parking area opposite a good area of parkland and with various walking routes nearby. There we found the parking area to be on a sideways slope. We sat on that slope for five minutes, listening to the rain drum on the roof, whereupon I suggested that maybe we should just head back to Harelbeke.
That we did, and when I took myself out for a run around the lake a couple of hours later, the rain was back to being light.
Harelbeke also positioned us better for this morning, when we had lined up another exciting morning sitting in a garage. Campirama (the motorhome dealer) did some adjustments on Bertie’s main entrance door last week. They failed to fix the problem they were supposed to be fixing, but did introduce a new one: sometimes one of the door catches was jamming such that it wouldn’t shut at all. With the issue being a simple adjustment of one catch, we felt sure we wouldn’t be there for more than an hour, so (ignoring all lessons learnt about the inverse relationship between expectations of waits and actual waits in garages) I only packed two travel mugs of coffee, one small supplementary flask and some croissant for elevenses. Having arrived at 8.45, it was approaching 3pm when we finally got away (they did try to get rid of us twice earlier, but we kept spotting the problems they had left). As a bonus, the minor issue with the pan holder on the stove is now also fixed.
Multi-tasking with crochet and crosswords, in a warehouse full of motorhomes and caravans
There was no question about going anywhere different once we did get away. Harelbeke has: 1) a really nice place for running; and 2) Wifi and electricity at a bargain price. The electricity is going to become even more valuable over the weekend, as the temperature is set to plummet tomorrow. As currently forecast we’re not due to see a positive temperature again until Monday afternoon, with the high on Monday morning predicted to be minus 5. Brrrr!
Weather: Wednesday 15th: Rain for most of the day. Thursday 16th: lovely and sunny and warm.
A rainy day yesterday called for indoor activities, which suited us just fine as we’d already decided to visit the Musee des Beaux-Arts (or ‘the art gallery’ for those not of a linguistic bent) in Tournai. With the entry fee being just €2.60, we thought it worth a look. It was too, keeping us amused for a good hour and a half, even though it’s far from the biggest gallery we’ve ever visited. In fact, it must be amongst the smallest.
Mick got to study this piece for a good while, whilst I nipped off to powder my nose. He was quite taken with it. I’m not sure whether the detail will be visible in this snap.
On a nice day we might then have taken another walk around Tournai, but a nice day it was not, so we hot-footed it back to Bertie and left town. The Aire had not been a quiet place overnight, so there was no question of staying another night.
Instead we headed to a place to the east of Kortrijk, where there’s a motorhome parking area opposite a good area of parkland and with various walking routes nearby. There we found the parking area to be on a sideways slope. We sat on that slope for five minutes, listening to the rain drum on the roof, whereupon I suggested that maybe we should just head back to Harelbeke.
That we did, and when I took myself out for a run around the lake a couple of hours later, the rain was back to being light.
Harelbeke also positioned us better for this morning, when we had lined up another exciting morning sitting in a garage. Campirama (the motorhome dealer) did some adjustments on Bertie’s main entrance door last week. They failed to fix the problem they were supposed to be fixing, but did introduce a new one: sometimes one of the door catches was jamming such that it wouldn’t shut at all. With the issue being a simple adjustment of one catch, we felt sure we wouldn’t be there for more than an hour, so (ignoring all lessons learnt about the inverse relationship between expectations of waits and actual waits in garages) I only packed two travel mugs of coffee, one small supplementary flask and some croissant for elevenses. Having arrived at 8.45, it was approaching 3pm when we finally got away (they did try to get rid of us twice earlier, but we kept spotting the problems they had left). As a bonus, the minor issue with the pan holder on the stove is now also fixed.
Multi-tasking with crochet and crosswords, in a warehouse full of motorhomes and caravans
There was no question about going anywhere different once we did get away. Harelbeke has: 1) a really nice place for running; and 2) Wifi and electricity at a bargain price. The electricity is going to become even more valuable over the weekend, as the temperature is set to plummet tomorrow. As currently forecast we’re not due to see a positive temperature again until Monday afternoon, with the high on Monday morning predicted to be minus 5. Brrrr!
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