Stage 5 complete!
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Luxembourg - TICK. Belgium - TICK. Next stop, Germany.
I don’t have too much time online so I’ll have to keep it brief, but thanks as ever go to all the folk on Couchsurfing who I’ve met and stayed with. Max, Sonia, Jacqueline and Clara in the last few days alone!
Over the next couple of weeks, I have a host in every major city I’m passing through as well as a couple of smaller towns. Gelsenkirchen is the only one where I’m struggling.
Luxembourg was very pretty (around 40% forest, I believe) and fairly flat aside from some uphill roads. Compared to the alps, these were pretty easy! Also, it’s not a bad country to walk through as most of the minor roads - best for walking along - run parallel to or meander around the more major ones. This makes navigation pretty easy when you’re walking without a map like *ahem* me.
Belgium is as nice as ever though the area around Liege seems to have a different “feel” to that near Brussels and Mons. Maybe it’s the weather or something. I’m looking forward to Germany, though I might pick up a small phrasebook before I get there as I simply don’t know the language. I’m glad to say I’ve gotten by with my limited French pretty well through the last three countries but I don’t think it’ll serve me well in Deutchland!