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Dunkirk (D20)

My cunning plan for today, a plan that has been brewing for a few days now, was to have a sneaky day off. I have been adding extra distance most days and at 791.88 miles I am achingly close to my initial 800 miles in 20 days plan. People always ask how many miles in how many days so having some simple numbers helps. I have been rounding down to the whole number of kilometers each day but even if I add those back in (19 lots of 0.5 of a kilometer is 9.5km) I am still shy of the mark. You can see I did the maths. Numbers aside, the sun is shining, I am here to cycle and I visited the Operation Dynamo museum on an earlier visit to Dunkirk. So, my new cunning plan is a trip out to Bergues which, if it's the place I think it is, will be a good destination and at under 40km for the round trip I can have a late start and an early finish.

On the way out there is a brick hut with murals on each side. This is what I think I look like. 
This is more realistic. 
And it was good to see some balance.
Such a good route today going out through Boir des Forts.
My destination was as I remembered. This is a former slaughterhouse which was still running up to 1969.

I still haven't mentioned the weather much and that is because I have enjoyed perfect cycling conditions for the last 20 days. Cool at times like today and up to 20 degrees Celsius other days. I usually catch at least one wet day - you remember those days - and this time it is forecast for tomorrow when I ride 10 miles to catch the ferry home.
Image taken from the BBC Weather app

Then on to the lake.
If judged by PPK (photos per kilometer) today has been a great day out.

So, an excellent day and today's 36km takes me to 1303km or 814 miles if that is your preferred unit of measurement. 800 miles in 20 days done.

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