Stage 6

Forest-sur-Marque - Willems - Tressin - Chéreng - Baisieux - Gruson - Anstaing

The search for greener pastures

The sixth stage was the first one that took us to the south of the MEL

We found a bike lane to Villeneuve d'Ascq and we're pleasently surprised at their quality - even including tunnels for bikers.

Oncoming traffic

Lac du Héron

The Parc du Héron was a pleasure to cross as was the Lac du Héron to see. Hard to imagine so much green so close to Lille.

Since we didn't travel on actual roads, we completely missed our city limit signs stop for Forest-sur-Marque and first arrived in Willems.

Willems (45)
Baisieux (46)

We continued towards Baisieux.

where we found this impressive bike sign - the first proper one, which was easy to spot after almost 50 communes visited. Chapeau !

Best bike sign award winner: Baisieux!
Gruson (47)

we followed the road towards Gruson

before heading to Anstaing.

Anstaing (48)
Chéreng (49)

and back onto the D94 and the D941 until Chéreng.

and after that Tressin - last stop before returning towards Lille.

Tressin (50)
Forest-sur-Marque (51)

Of course not without stopping at Forest-sur-Marque to take a picture

and taking the same way back since it was such a joyride...

straight down the alleyway