Day 166 Saturday 28 July

Brussels, Belgium – Lille, France – Calais – Ebbsfleet, Kent 395 kms/245 miles; Cumulative: 18,440 kms/11,458 miles

A day in Brussels: breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien, browsing round the Saturday antique market in the Place du Grand Sablon, a walk to the Botanic Gardens, lunch at La Maison de Crepes… and the evening Eurostar back to Ebbsfleet

And a poem on the wall of the Gare du Midi:

‘This is no beach/This is not the edge of the sea/This is a horizon with gulls/the future where we all begin to dream’