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UTMR Day 0: Non-running stuff 👨‍🍳

It is last day... but a big day ahead... We should do 200kms + to get to our destination.

We manage to get breakfast at 7am 🕖 and try to start as early as possibe fully tanked 🥣🍳🥖. Shortly after 8am we are on the road 🤘. We have a few sunbeams 🌤 but soon we will get into the clouds 🤷‍♂️. 

Soon we make our way to Rochefort, roads are a bit busy and we take some alternative that brings us by the Trappist 🧑‍🦲🧘 brewery 🍻. After the brewery gets into a muddy trail 😅 with a 30 cms water river crossing that luckily has a bridge.

Ciney is the next big town, another one with a Trappist 🧑‍🦲🧘 beer 🍺. Unfortunatelly we cannot stop for beers 😅...

Is a bit too early for stopping, so we keep going this time through a pritty good rolling bikelane build on a old train line 🚞.

About 30 min later we feel hungry... so start to look for a place to eat. Havelange is a small town but we find a local Friterie 🍟 where we can get something quick to keep going.

We have 75 kms done ✅️ and the way has not been easy, still quite a bit some ups ↗️ and downs ↘️ and terrain sometimes is not very rolling.

Some kms more and we catch again the bike lane on Pont de Bonne to avoid to go back 1 km to catch where we left. We keep rolling to Huy, another big town 🏘🏘.

Direction Hannut, before arriving the bike lane becomes less comfortable, quite irregular... so at some point we decide to leave it and make the last kms in some small roads trails.

Finally in Hannut, and we are hungry again. Is around 4pm 🕓and we have around 120 kms... This time we select a Sandwicherie 🥪. I take the biggest sandwich 🥖 size l, thinking I'll leave something for later... but I ate it all at once 😅. Too hungry to leave something.

We keep going and from here I gave live location to Bertrand. He tries to find us along the way but live tracking is not teally reliable 📶 and at the end he catch us when we stop at Hoegarden.

We did not plan to stop... but Yves had a need for some liquid in this special town 😏. Of course as good citizens we go for a 0️⃣,0️⃣. Actually ✌️..., we are quite thirsty. A bit chit chat and we have to keep doing... We are km 135 and still some 80 kms to go.

We arrive to Leuven and visit it. Despite late que cannot miss the opportunity. We get extra power ⚡️, with a gelatto 🍦 and coffee ☕️. Looks very alive city... my thoughts whwre like... we could stay here 🤭.

When leaving Leuven we see Stella Artois with a nice eater reflection. Just after I feel luck of pressure in my back tyre 🛞 and we stop in a petrol station to look for a compressor. We do not find it but we check the tyre to find a piece of glass... and a small puncture📌.

So, time for repairing 👨‍🔧. Luckily the last part of the day with some light. In less than 20' we are back on the bikes and it seems it holds.

Still almost 50 kms to go and is 8pm... Luckily those one will be done faster than expected. Canals, bike highways and very flat terrain like a pancake, is what is ahead of us.

We stop in Lier for a quick visit too. Very nice night view with historical buildings but we neee to keep going. The last 18 kms over a bike highway very smooth with only 3 little climbs to cross the train rails from time to time. Let's fly 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️💨.

Finally a bit after 11pm we make it to Antwerp. I was looking forward to it. I was very hungry and body was giving pain in diffetent places over time 😅.

Time to rest, tomrrow no ⏰️.

Route: Libramont-Chevigny - Rochefort - Ciney - Havelange 🍔🍟 - Pont de Bonne - Huy -  Hannut 🥪☕️ -  Hoegaarden 🍺 0️⃣,0️⃣ - Leuven 🍦 - Lier - Antwerp 🍺🍺

#Basel to Antwerpen
#with Nicole and Yves
#👋Met Bertrand

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