{"id":5417,"date":"2025-07-04T06:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5417"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:26:04","slug":"belgium-coastal-path-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/belgium\/belgium-coastal-path-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Coastal Path – 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bray-Dunes France to Bergues GR120 – 4th July 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. I am done. The coast of […]<\/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-5417","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5417","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=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5458,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5417\/revisions\/5458"}],"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=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}