{"id":5413,"date":"2025-07-04T06:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5413"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:34:56","slug":"belgium-coastal-path-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/belgium\/belgium-coastal-path-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Coastal Path – 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Groenendijk Strand to Bray-Dunes France 3rd July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Temperatures look good today and the wind has backed slightly into the north so is a little more over my right shoulder than in my face. The plan is to cross into France and pick up the start of the GR120 which I hope to complete next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Leaving Nieuwport. Sun is shinning and it’s not too hot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dunkirk on the horizon but not picked up in the photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That mermaid woman ready to be thrown back in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There are a few people still around but they disappear in the hugheness of the continual beach. Dunkirk visable now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not sure if they be migrants or a group of holday makers gathered at the coast waiting for something to pass by.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old Leopold I the first king of the Belgians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Still so far away that I won’t reach it until tomorrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Belgium and a turn of 180 …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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France. Yep on the border.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite being tired to day was good. The weather stayed on the right side of too hot until the very end and I have traversed another country – this time Belgium. France and teh GR120 awaits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Groenendijk Strand to Bray-Dunes France 3rd July 2025 Temperatures look good today and the wind has backed slightly into the north so is a little more over my right shoulder than in my face. The plan is to cross into France and pick up the start of the GR120 which I hope to complete next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5342,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5413","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5428,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5413\/revisions\/5428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}