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Belgium Coastal Path – 5

Bray-Dunes France to Bergues GR120 – 4th July 2025

Actually in France for this whole section but I wanted to do a bit of the GR120 ahead of coming back to finish it next year – hopefully.
Weather was fine at around 24 but it was a long old haul.

Leaving Bray-Dunes. The beaches seem to be cleaned overnight, not that I saw much need.
In the far distance Dunkirk.
The sea has eroded the dunes and the German fortifications are tumbling down.
From the great evacuation? Nah. The Germans wouldn’t have left anything in their field of fire.
The command bunker no doubt.
Nice ridged walking to stretch my little feeties.
Dunkirk memorial.
Approaching the art museum. Perhaps these are the three witches of Macbeth fame.
A poppy work but on that lamppost a greater work of art – the red and white flashes of the GR120 route.
The next one even has the glorious E9 signage.
Poor little mechanical man hiding in the undergowth.
Imagine ploughing the world’s ocean in one of these.
Getting ready for the tour de France,
That giant canal woman’s barge is slightly overgrown. Is it a disguise?
It seems that the giant green cricket is going to steal the eggs fron that bird’s nest.
Surely we need a protractor and compass to make the set.
You would think German AA guns to protect Dunkirk. But no, allied after the landings in June 44.
Last five miles on dappled forest tracks.
Bregues, a pleasant fortress town as many of these towns in France, Belgium and Holland are.

I am done. The coast of Belgium and a bit of the Gr120, setting me up for my tour of the North coast of France next year – imigrants notwithstanding.