Belguim to France

Hi Everyone,
We’ve done a lot in the last week, starting with a quick drive for the Netherlands across Belgium to France. On our first night in Belgium we stayed in a sports centre carpark, it felt like we could have been staying outside Waipukurau pools at home. We were close to town, the park and the pool, though the pool was four times the price and probably not much better. It was Sunday evening and we went for a walk down the main street and it was like a ghost town. Everything was closed for the day so we couldn’t buy any food but we went into the church and looked the buildings like city hall.
The next day we went shopping at a supermarket and then drove across the rest of Belgium. Lucky for us our hardest problem was finding a park at the shop, we didn’t have to learn another language just to buy some groceries. By the end of the day we still weren’t in France but we stayed at another sports centre, stuck in our camper because of the rain.

In the morning we drove into France and the entire landscape changed dramatically. We started going over hills and though big areas of farmland planted in a variety of crops, mainly wheat and corn. All the farms looked very busy with harvesting and baling straw. The architecture changed as well all the buildings became brick with steep orange tile rooves. We also noticed that a lot of the old farm buildings had collapsed and been left as piles of bright orange tiles.
Our first few days in France we have stayed in special carparks only for motor homes called Aires. The coastline is very beautiful the sea comes right up to the big chalk cliffs/hills at high tide. At low tide there are very big flat sandy beaches. A few of the Aires have been up on these cliffs right above the sea with really good views.
One night we spent at a French Passion park. It was a Goat Farm which made cheese. We felt right at home. They did all the work inside a big barn, including making the cheese in a special room. We got to watch them hand milk their goats, they were very good and super fast. While staying at the farm we also found some blackberries which we made into some yummy jam to have with biscottes(toast bread like a cracker).

William, the Nieuwys

Note: Internet is to slow to add photos so we will add them later. Sorry