Antwerp

The team are currently in Antwerp, having made camp on Monday evening.

They have spent the day in Antwerp, researching some of their minor projects, and sending the e-mail of how they are doing. We will forward this e-mail as soon as we can access it, as it may involve a phonecall to England tomorrow morning.

The supervising team have made the final visit to the team, and discussed with them their plans for the next day and a half, their budget, their minor projects, and their mileage.

The team have either completed, or have enough information, for 9 of their 10 minor projects, with the 10th having been started.

Tomorrow will see the team walking to Mechelen, and then catching the train into Brussels before walking to their campsite. Having managed their budget for the last few days they are intending to have a final team meal at a local restaurant before the end expedition.

They are all looking forward to the end of the expedition, and heading home to their own beds and, for some of them, healing their blisters.

The supervising team are going to change their plans for tomorrow, so that one can head up to Antwerp to buy a newspaper. The team today visited the newspaper office, and they are expecting an article, complete with photographs to be in the paper tomorrow. They have arranged for the article to be e-mailed to them with the photos, so that we will have a copy of it for the future. This was one of their minor projects.

Now on Day 8 - just 48 hours to go.

The team are now on day 8 of their expedition across belgium.

Since the last posting on Friday evening the team have covered quite some mileage, both on foot, and on the train.

On Saturday they headed as planned to the boat lift at Strepy-Thieu, quite an impressive structure. They spent some time looking around the structure, and the engine rooms. They also two of the older boat lifts, which are more hydraulic.

From here they headed into Charleroi, and decided that they would head down to Couvin that day.

Arriving at Couvin they headed to the tourist information, and to locate their campsite, and then headed for site, where they discussed their mileage, plans and budgets for the coming days with the supervising team.

Sunday was spent looking at the Brewery in Fagnes, and heading around a circular walk back to their campsite.

On Monday the team headed for Antwerp, where they will stay for two nights.

Today sees the final visit from the supervising team, who have now moved their base camp to the final location, De Kluis (just one of the names which we have been pronouncing wrongly).

Their route to date has been somewhat similar to their original plans, but some sections have been accelerated, therefore the team are enjoying two days where they can remain on the same site.