FNRttK 2014 - Saturday May 3rd

[mmmmartin]

Last year I took the 4pm ferry over and the 4pm ferry back.
On the way over I had about an hour to wait for the train at De Panne.
On the way back we had about an hour to wait for the ferry.
It worked well. The email from DFDS shows I made the booking three days before the sailing. Plenty of time yet.
I'll say it now and several more times: the food on those DFDS ferries is horrid. Bring a sarnie.

 

[redfalo]

if there's an elevation graph of the route that will help me make my mind up.@swarm_catcher!!)

here's a 4 step guide to get one:

1) Take a sheet of paper
2) take a pencil
3) draw a straight line
4) look at your elevation graph

 

[BalkanExpress]

here's a 4 step guide to get one:

1) Take a sheet of paper
2) take a pencil
3) draw a straight horizontal line
4) look at your elevation graph

FTFY

 

[Mice]

here's a 4 step guide to get one:

1) Take a sheet of paper
2) take a pencil
3) draw a straight line
4) look at your elevation graph

Brilliant! So the only hill is the ramp to/from the ferry!!

Mice

 

[BalkanExpress]

The guardian of all things spiritual in my household has just realized that Sunday 4th is our eldest's first communion.

I am trying to work out how far I can get along the ride and still be back to transport family including assorted in-laws to church by 10.00am.

Worst case scenario I lead the merry band out of town and wave goodnight on the edge of Brussels, best case scenario/extreme wishful thinking reach Bruges around 7 and still home before 9

 

[redfalo]

Religion is the opium of the people.

 

[StuAff]

StuAff are you a definite and no longer TBC?

I am now. Tickets for the ferry bought- 2pm sailing from Dover, 4pm back from Dunkirk. Thinking of getting the train as far as Aalst and riding into Brussels from there.

 

[swarm_catcher]

The guardian of all things spiritual in my household has just realized that Sunday 4th is our eldest's first communion.

I am trying to work out how far I can get along the ride and still be back to transport family including assorted in-laws to church by 10.00am.

Worst case scenario I lead the merry band out of town and wave goodnight on the edge of Brussels, best case scenario/extreme wishful thinking reach Bruges around 7 and still home before 9

You can do it! See when the trains from Bruges are and we can work to that.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Religion is the opium of the people.

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".

 

[martint235]

It appears I haven't yet thrown my hat in the ring for this. I'm very interested, now I just need to sort out the logistics.

I'm now out I'm afraid. It's a friend's 60th birthday party in London that night

 

[StuAff]

I'm now out I'm afraid. It's a friend's 60th birthday party in London that night

Unlike.

 

[StuAff]

Whilst watching appropriate TV ('Salamander'), been looking at possible cycling routes into Brussels. From Aalst, N9 all the way looks (a) straightforward and (b) safe enough. From the N9, just a case of keep going the same way I think?

Also, found this handy guide to Belgian cycling law https://www.kuleuven.be/transportation/pdf/guideforcycling.pdf

 

[dellzeqq]

Whilst watching appropriate TV ('Salamander'), been looking at possible cycling routes into Brussels. From Aalst, N9 all the way looks (a) straightforward and (b) safe enough. From the N9, just a case of keep going the same way I think?

Also, found this handy guide to Belgian cycling law https://www.kuleuven.be/transportation/pdf/guideforcycling.pdf

it's not straightforward. Cycling out of Brussels at midnight was unbelievably complex, and, without David and Els we would have been stuffed.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

the trick with cycling in Brussels is not to do it sober.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

and have a gps with opencyclemaps on it, and be prepared to use cycletracks....