I'm sure each one of us will blog on what happened when we got into Brussels, so here is my take. I had an internal monologue going on which became a loud vocal monologue which was 'I am going to die, I am going to die, I am going to die!!!!
It was without doubt the scariest moment of my life, no joking, and I've jumped out of a plane!!
We were coimg up to a basilica and the map said we needed to go around it, so we took a right. This funnelled us down a tunnel and we all realised quickly that the sign on the tunnel meant cars only. Our next thought was this should only be a short tunnel. It wasn't!!! It just kept dropping down and down and getting faster and faster. The tunnel was not well lit, particularly in sunglasses. The sound was incredible and frightening as it had large industrial extrator fans and cars coming past us all beeping their displeasure in finding cyclists in the tunnel!!! Those idiot english!!!!
As it got faster and faster, partly the slope but also us pedalling furiously in order to get out, there were a couple of slip roads which merged into the main traffic flow at full speed. I nearly had a heart attack!!
We managed to get upto 30 miles an hour in our adrenaline fuelled state. My body is in a state of exhaustion now the adrenaline is leaving my body.
Family and friends I'm glad to be alive.
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