This unique 14-day tour will take you through Belgium and France and also through “Holland”, as Belgium and the French part north of the river Somme once belonged to The Netherlands. The lion in the flags of Belgian and French provinces still bears witness of those days. The tour takes you on a journey through two of the major “gourmet” countries of the world, and of course there will be more than one opportunity to try or shop the local and regional delicacies. The “C’est la Vie” (such is life) attitude of the French and Belgians surely finds strength in some of these. Our daily rides will take you along sometimes small country roads, towpaths, paved forest trails and occasionally a cobblestone road. In Belgium we will cycle through rather flat countryside, and a large part of the tour will follow tow paths that were best described by Dan Gamber: “If you like to ride on good pavement but away from car traffic, the towpaths of Belgium offer some of the best cycling in the world.”