We return by magical Astra carpet to Wisques where we were picked up by Jane yesterday. One problem in this area is that campsites are a good distance apart. Certainly further than we wish to walk. So two nights on a site and a brief car shuffle is within the rules we set for ourselves on this walk. Sadly today’s walk is all tarmac and with little shade.Itis still reasonably cool as we walk into Wizernes for coffee. There are two monasteries in Wizernes we do not pause to visit. The other local. attraction is the WW2 V2 flying bomb development site at Helfaut. We don’t have time to visit that either. Though the attraction of a mobilty scooter from a local supplier as we pass gives great temptation to Ray and Tim.
Getting out of the sun is our priority. There is little wind adding to the heat of the walk. We make Inghem by lunchtime a beer in a bar and the shade outside the church (not open) go some way to cooling us and we tramp on over more fields of barley and peas.
Eventually we reach Therouanne and another beer in a bar named for Ray. We are met by Jane and Ann who have been shopping and have no room in the car. So a last stagger completes 23km to one of three campsites around Les Lacs de Rebeques. Campsites are like buses you walk 40km and then 3 come along