Just drivin' in the rain

Sunday 24/6, we left Paris this morning in light drizzling rain heading towards Charleville-Mezieres. We chose to head via Soissons. On the way to Soissons, we passed the Vauxbuin French Military Cemetery. Stopped for a couple of quick photos. The rain continued to drizzle. After Soissons, the rain slowly got heavier and heavier and at one stage was so torrential that we couldn’t travel much faster than 80km/hr on the 130km/hr expressway. Arrived at Charleville Mezieres and had dinner in a Spanish restaurant where we met another Australian couple from Albury, VIC, who are currently on a bicycle riding tour of Northern France, Belgium and the southern part of The Netherlands. They are about our age and are riding a bicycle built for two, which has a small trailer behind it where they carry their clothes etc. This bicycle dismantles then folds-up and fits into this trailer. The wheels come off the trailer, too, and then this trailer is their luggage for their airplane flights. A lot of their riding has been along canals. They have travelled on the train a couple of times, like today when the weather is poor, or when they want to move to another area, but most of their travel has been by bike. We had an interesting chat over dinner. Tomorrow, our plan is to travel to Maastricht possibly via Brussels but this will depend on the weather.