... and we found this at another of the stops.... the inscription is "Mere de Misericourde"... My translation skills aren't great, but does it mean 'mother of misery'...???... somebody tell me, please...!! 

... and just as we came up to that memorial, we had our first proper mechanical failure of the trip.... Drews crank gears wouldn't shift.... he was stuck in the middle cog, which was not so bad, but we had a look and couldn't immediately see anything wrong, so we decided to carry on to the hotel as it was opnly about 5kms away and see if we could find a bike shop then....

Luckily, Guines does have a bike shop, and after explaining the problem to the guy behind the counter (yes, my french is getting better!), he took a look at it and pulled out a massive rock that had got stuck and jammed the shifter.... here's a picture of the rock... I could only just fit it into the photo, so apologies if the photo is not absolutely clear....

... and here's me pointing at the massive rock, so that you can get a sense of scale....