I woke up at the usual time, a bit nervous, a bit excited and a bit calm, at the same time and continued packing and clearing the room, that means putting off the bed clothes, rearranging things in the cabin as they were and so on.
After breakfast, Jean Marc and I exchanged our helicopter videos, then we finished packing and went down saying good bye to the crew and the remaining passengers, Jochen and Graham. A taxi should bring us to the port entry but we waited for a while and then I decided to go on my own by bike, a truck driver showed me the way and it was easy to leave.
last view of the ship, from outside the port
I started my GPS and saw nothing except a line from nowhere into another nowhere. For a while I didn’t care too much because I thought it should be easy to find the way from the port Dunkirk to the town Dunkirk but later, I stuck on a road that only led to another part of the port.
After a while, I remembered that the map for Europe might be deactivated and it was. But now I only saw the map without any route, only the message that I am off the route. But at least I arrived in Dunkirk and came to the train station. And there, I saw Marie and Jean Marc again ?. They had seen me before somewhere on the road and 2min before Marc had written and SMS that I wanted to read when I stop, but then we met anyway.
I was too nervous with my diverse problems that I didn’t make a break as long as they waited for the train and they didn’t ask me, maybe because the SMS could have been understood as a suggestion to wait together. I went on and after a while I checked the direction and saw that I should go North-East anymore, it should be southeast. I was annoyed by these routing problems, so, I started the same route planner, komoot, that I normally use with Mr.G on my phone. First, I tried to see it on the screen, but this was not easy because of the sun, and the battery began to get empty fast. I thought, I can load it with my dynamo USB, but it didn’t work. So, I changed to listening to the voice telling the route. First, he suggested to adapt the route to Wevelgem because I was off the route. I thought this is a good idea. But then I saw that he just brought me back to a point where the original tour from Dunkirk should start and this was near the train station, so, I had made a circle and I would meet Jean Marc and Marie again what would be strange. I made a small detour to avoid that and hoped that my tour would be visible if I begin exactly at the starting point, but it was not like that. At least the tour was clear, I was guided well by the voice until the battery was empty. Then I remembered that sometimes a cable was loose, and it was but it didn’t help. I changed the batteries from my spare part phone and went on. I made a list of the villages I would go through to have at least anything when all batteries are empty and nothing else works. And then I had another idea and rebooted Mr.G and started with another route, showing the complete route to Bruxelles. And suddenly Mr.G woke up, I don’t know because of which part of the therapy, but now I could go on. On my way I found a passport of A British citizen and after that for 30km no police car or station. When I finally found one it was closed although I could hear voices inside, so I just put the passport there and went on.
I was getting tired, the wind was strong most of the time and when I had expected to be pushed forward by west winds I learned that they also may come from the east . After 100km instead of 65, I arrived in Wevelgem after 18:00 and luckily found a hotel there, not quite cheap, but I wanted to have a room with Wi-Fi to download more offline maps in case of more problems. Today I had learned that it is not enough to have double security, because you can have double problems, too (Mr.G and the charging problem in this case)
Ipers would be worth visiting for a while! 
a copy of the original lions, the story is on the left (only in German, sorry)