Ypres to Azincourt(?)

Well, first things first, my wet weather plan worked. I got wet. It was nice. The wind, however, has not been. There has been a 40km/h head wind (at least) since Ypres. It hasn't really meant harder peddling, just less distance covered. The  few times it has been at my back I haven't even had to peddle. For a while I tried to tack like a sail boat - one road across the wind, one road with it. But I ran out of roads.

In fact, at one point I ran out of roads completely! I've been trying to go in the straightest line possible, so taking whatever little roads allow me to do that. It's really nice seeing the in between places that the high speed train flashes by in seconds (a high speed train flashed by today out in the middle of the farms. It was faaaast). But it backfired when one of the little roads became a track, then a trail, then nothing. So I did some bush walking and eventually got where I needed to be. I'll post some pics below. There were some shelters made from branches which were a bit creepy too. If it was later I would have camped there.

I checked how far I'd come today, thinking it would probably be about 70km, but it was roughly 55km. I say roughly because my bush walking adventure is hard to judge and google maps assumes I took the big, busy, scary roads.

I've stopped at a maccas somewhere to get more charge. I can't figure out which way to go. I think this all might be a new development because none of the roads are on google maps. So I'm flying by compass.

I have 35km until Azincourt, which should take 2 hours. Yeah right! I doubt I'll make it today but I'm keen to keep on peddling into the night if it is safe to do so. I doubt it will be unless I can find a segregated cycle path.

I'm super excited to get to the coast, which should happen tomorrow if the wind buggers off.