Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Marbehan - Bastogne
Emergency breaks law: in boskes in Carrefour car park to toilet; good food and foraging in Wisembach and very bad news in Bastogne.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: L'Epine (Bouillon) - Marbehan
Past an almost extinct Cistercian abbey for women near Bouillon, raptor show at the castle of Godfrey of Bouillon and visit to gallery of Marie-Laure Alff in Les Hayons.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Rescuing 'former glory' Hotel de la Poste in Bouillon
A Dutchman fell in love with it and saved the long-empty hotel from destruction.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Matagne - Epine
Along Maas and Semois with beautiful panoramas. Komoot app proved more user-friendly than Osmand, but sometimes sent me into the 'brousse'.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Bellignies (FR) - Matagne-La-Petite
Refused at campsite and accommodated by super hospitable French people; a dirty pot of macedoine followed by an off-day, unbearable heat on a plateau with endless wheat fields and backache-rest in Matagne.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Monique on her Baha'i religion - Tournai
Unexpected introduction to the relatively recent Baha'i religion in Tournai.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Rollegem - Bellignies (FR)
First steps in Wallonia. Flirting with the Franco-Belgian border. Finding places to sleep becomes more difficult but 'saving angels' always appear on the scene in good time.
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Ostend - Rollegem
Along the spiteful Belgian coast between Ostend and Nieuwpoort and sweating alongside canals and along polder lanes without end. And moments of reflection on the 'Great War 1914-18' and the horrors that took place then...
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Spanish Toll House near Ostend
Spanish Toll House. Again those Spanish...
Hiking for Street Nurses 2020: Lembeke- Ostend
Through patchy patches of forest and along canals to the sea, where I was treated to an overnight storm and a rip in my tent. And regular stays with oh-so-friendly Welcome to my Garden host families.
