Dinant - doing the tourist thing

Total trip journey 520 miles
Distance today 0 miles

The Mighty Wing got the day off today, left under wraps outside our digs. The day started late as we were both shattered and stayed in bed until 10am (well we are on holiday). We braved the very steep stairs down from our room and visited a local boulangerie for ‘breakfast’ coffee and cake.

We tried practicing some French but were just met with confused stares so opted for the universal language of pointing which the staff seemed to be fluent in.




We then visited the Notre Dame de Dinant with its stunning stain-glass window, apparently the most impressive in Europe.





Then onto the Citadel. We had a choice, 408 steps or the cable car. £33 got us both in and a boat ride later on. Obviously if the cable car was not included in the entrance fee we would have opted for the steps. 




Deb managed to get herself locked on the wrong side of the automatic cable car gate much to the amusement of everyone queuing. Rob was of course very concerned and refused to join in with the group sniggering. There is always one!







The ‘Onion dome’ on top of the Notre Dame de Dinant. The long thin white building to the right of the dome is our digs. The Notre Dame de Dinant is a pretty unlucky building having been crushed by a rock slide, burnt to the ground and bombed out in the First World War. Glad we got to see it before something inevitably happens to it again.





The citadel overlooks the city of Dinant and the strategic Meuse river which runs through the town.






We are still not sure what’s going on here, very strange underground experience  



Here we see Deb faking walking up the 408 steps, we were actually on the way down.



A boat ride was included in the entrance fee to the Citadel. It was very hot again by this point in the day after the morning cloud had cleared.



The Bayard Rock is a rocky needle about forty meters high located on the banks of the Meuse the road is cut through it in one direction and it’s about 40ft high.




Meuse Bridge





Our AirB&B from boat, was please to see that the mighty Wing was still there.


Dinant is also famous for being the birthplace of Adolf Sax. One guess what he is famous for.







We sat and dangled our feet in the water here to cool down for 30 minutes, lovely.



And finally, to show we are complete tourists here Deb inside a tourist Dinant sign. Our work as British Tourists here is complete.



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