Cycling Belgium – Bikepacking Europe

That’s what’s going on right now we have hopefully you can see that storms coming in you’re probably going to see a flash of light in any second i don’t even know we’re paranoid to sit on that tree lightning hits trees doesn’t it so we this is what we have right here stakes

In the park an extra low thunder hopefully this tree isn’t getting lit up tonight or shower week because we have a gas right here steaks right here that’s what we have going on right there so we have our mashed pot potatoes potatoes and we have to heat them up on the

On the pot or the pan whatever works this is a ramsay job right here some horse meat probably i don’t know what part of the animal i came from Yeah the cheapest one los angeles los angeles huh what’s that noise yeah whoa whoa i’m gonna have to stop that pan probably gonna fall over is that cool oh really you know slow instead he wins the race oh well we throw the mash marshawn with the steaks

In a minute yeah why not yeah yeah you don’t need the steaks going somewhere you just trowel down peas that’s somebody we don’t like yeah cause i don’t know it’s always like 10 minutes Tan minced definitely means 10 minutes can’t be done especially for a few peas mmm yeah oh we try to mash on two minutes lovely so that’s a crack chef and open the park well wait what what do we have for uh do we have dessert wine crisp beer that’s it beautiful

That’s it wait i brought a knot i think they may be in the other bag that’s all right nuts crisps beer and well down half that bottle of wine with the steak and we’re sore how do you like your steak me medium rare no head over there medium air me too

And we’re happy i mean it looks pretty medium well right now but i’m sure on the inside yeah oh well i mean i didn’t i cook quicker yeah i’ll just change these over we try to mash on yeah okay i don’t know i don’t know if it’s gonna be edible but

Let’s [ __ ] do it right wait well what do you mean edible well it’s just it needs five minutes in a microwave does it need to be cooked it’s [ __ ] mashed potato in it yeah i don’t know warm door probably just just throw on though yeah just hold on

The hell are we going to eat it after i hold the hand she’s a beauty all right i’ll get the wine open but maybe maybe doll up a bit of red on this yeah yeah let’s do it why not trioro 75 cent alby cabernet sauvignon how are these guys the wines

He’s hungry he smells the food or else he’s calling the cops because we’re cooking a storm up here ready i’m ready oh that looks disgusting especially Purple mash mush hold the thing again it’s very tasty you’re gonna have to taste it anyway see the chef how’s it taste tastes just like drinking wine and eating mushrooms the mash is obviously not hot at all lovely weather food there’s an umbrella above us actually it’s

It’s stuck between the trees so it’s giving us decent shelter actually are you being wet or not yeah a little bit no decent shelter but you can obviously hear it’s poking them down and we’re standing in the park there and you got a field down there so eating straight off the plant

Some munching out and we’ll leave it there because it just gets messy trying to hold this and talk to you at the same time she’s about to take off again on our way to antwerp three hours left one hour down three to go so four hour journey soften this spot right here

Nice spot but the coverage is starting to rain now so it was the first time we’re actually going to slightly throw a bit of rain but yeah we’ll see how it goes i’m not particularly forced and changing and putting on ponchos because you’re sweat alive right now the humidity is 90 percent

It’s 30 degrees we’re feeling every bit but so yeah we’re not too bothered although i might change this into a tank top because the tank top’s sweaty anyways and i don’t know it’s a bit more breathable you know show their sweat on my back when you see it still yeah yeah so

That’s the story we’re going to just fly into antwerp no clue where we’re going to come and we do we want a good night’s sleep tonight so not have much luck with the campaign no no no no no no two nights ago was good good camping though

Two nights ago i was camping by yeah it was a nice video our lunch it was a bit crazy we had me and darwin eating lunch and about maybe six seven wasps flying around chasing something over the place so yeah at one point they chased us

One each and then we both run away from them we nearly smacked heads we had a best lunch i’ve eaten all week i think salami mozzarella and a brioche bone on some paprika crisps and it’s all gone and all you could to see is the aftermath all the tsunami all the mozzarella

50 000 calories right here so this is where we are now some type of wood getting out of the rain and carry on two hours away almost on the home street one hour and 30 minutes left we’ve been keeping a solid pace as much as we can

We just went past the second piece of glass i’ve seen since we since we got the the ferry over to france london you see a piece of glass every two minutes same back home so yeah some lady went until he came past us and we sat down with careful boy show careful

She wasn’t careful enough and she went through her flat tire so yeah that’s the story you can see where we are i’m probably prepared to get bait and tent tonight again just like last night he was like sitting in an oven but we’re gonna get used to it we’re gonna have to adopt Yeah they’re growing something there’s pears isn’t it grab the feel antwerp yeah yeah jesus if it’s broke on the other side we’ll never get up 10 stairs them stairs aren’t working there’s no way we’re gonna get up there’s no way we’re gonna get up the stairs if they’re not working on the

Other side i guess though so now we basically cycle underneath the river just get us to aldi we’re gonna eat eat like kings tonight do some steak on the pond and whatever whatever a few beers yeah sorry self-sale and the escalator is working i’m sorry about last it only took the whole day

You like it just gonna go and get here this evening have a look around been there done that get a look at it out what it’s like everyone’s happy right now one thing at a time here’s the priority so we’re gonna do then we’re gonna find out and worry

About where we’re going to sleep from there so that’s the plan just dragged half of the stuff in boycotts locked here at the back of the hostel someday we’re traveling all day can’t couldn’t get through to any camps i used to ring them we’re not going in boy boy

Because they’re all spread apart and we’re not soaking around the city so look we’re in a hostel it’s the first time we’ve paid for accommodation i’ve been out here i think two and a half weeks now yeah two and a half weeks first night paint accommodation 17 year old have a hostel

Six beds shared or maybe eight or maybe even ten i don’t even know but anyways i have a bed i’m happy to get off my bike walk around antwerp shower off the dirt of me i make the most even still have to eat dinner there’s a storm coming in typical

But we got out of storm release now we can’t actually cook here because it covered so even though i offered to use my own pants and my own gas on my own cooker we still can’t do so we have to cross into the park to cook our dinner

We have a steak on the go and hopefully we do it before this ring gets real heavy let’s get a meal on let’s get showered feel fresh can’t wait for her i’ve won the best sleeps ever i woke up for like 6 a.m and then it felt like i’d slept the whole night

And then i had another three hours to lie on so unbelievable feeling the freshers are that easy the legs probably the tightest they’ve been in a couple of days stuff here they’ve been seeping in really hot water i’ve got pieces of tissue on it now because they had no um

I had no plugs so i used some tissue i know it’s all over the shop i’m probably stuck in their sink well anyways now the water’s still going down i use the soccer ball as you can see all the water is empty now yeah so we’re washing our stuff in here we could

Have done it we were going to do it last night and then dry completely in the morning but we couldn’t because they locked they locked the area to hang out with so so now i’ve got my stuff boiling hot i’m just gonna put some cold water on it because

It’s so hot i can’t pick it up and then we’re gonna hang it out for about half an hour before for a half an hour until we get out of this place we give up come back up got the shower cold shower and hit the road

Got the pots and pans i was stuck from last night the storm broke out so i didn’t have time to clean just round back we got that set up there have that dry then we have that house here we went down to the common area to hang them out but

Apparently nothing’s possible at the moment with harvard so you can’t even go into the community you just hang your clothes and leave so it’s just brutal at the moment so look we just said hopefully he doesn’t got mad at us i don’t i don’t know what’s the story he just

Keeps saying that’s not possible it’s not possible like we reckon it’s just because the coverage can’t go out to that common area so we just have our stuff hanging in here and we have some bunsen bungee’s here so it’s hanging off our clouds are down there dangling too so

Seems to feel the job let’s get that washing when you can huh i guess so look at this dripping off still a lot of water i guess we could stop off an hour after an hour maybe sit down lightly in the sun like 20 minutes while we eat some lunch

Yeah yeah yeah yeah when we’re cooking we can cook breakfast in the park and hang them out again cool i just had to let our clothes dry off in the hostel but they didn’t dry i guess it was morning time the sun wasn’t as strong as so they didn’t dry

As quick as we expected we’ve been chilling here for about one hour we made up our breakfast and we just lay our clothes over there biting away in the sun so they’re still a bit wet but what we have over here now is just hanging the boxers

Off the end here the wet trousers the socks in here and the jocks on the front so as we go along that’s all gonna dry out through the wind so yeah we’re doing the best we can i’m again we’re getting it done now on to true antwerp

And to luven the pictures on google maps look nice at the forests around so 15 minutes outside we’re hoping we’re going to find the forest supposed to rain tonight but we have the tarpaulin so i think we’re going to break that out for the first time and yeah we’re going to

Have tarpaulin we’re going to do a proper good setup and we’re going to try and keep dry as possible for illinois so that sounds like this sauce and i’m pretty excited to see how the day goes i saw the street on antwerp right down the center and there’s this train station something

I want to show you absolutely beautiful train station this one so we’re gonna go have a look inside look how magnificent this train station is i used to have pictures when i’ve been here before but now you have on the gopro you got a video look it’s incredible it’s like almost like a

Paid attraction only at the train station and yes they do have toilets i see a sign hopefully we get that heated toilet seat looks like the type of place that would have us though isn’t it train stations and belgium are incredible sorry bro took so long

What’s going on i made some video you want to go check it out yeah it’s the story we’re going to float around here for a bit go check out the the red light district second biggest one in europe next to amsterdam here in antwerp so i believe um

The red light here though i don’t think it’s going to be open because covered so i’m sure it’s it’s going to be close but it’ll be cool to go see the area at least then if it is closed if it is closed then i can just video

Around and show you because you can’t video when there are people there so that’d be interesting but you just had a peek did you it’s very much like the milan one oh yeah yeah all right cool oh