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Thrustvector
Depending on what your interests are, and how fast a tour you want:
- Obviously Belgium is great for beers; if you wanted to head from Dunkirk to Ypres then the Trappist abbey at Westvleteren is on route, as is the hops museum in Poperinge.
- The Belgian national museum of cycle sport is in Roeselare, between Ypres and Bruges.
- Bruges, Ghent, and Antwerp all have excellent museums and galleries - the Plantin museum of printing in Antwerp is world-class.
- If you're not a GPS user: I've not used the nodal system in Belgium, but my experience of Dutch cycling is that you'll be ok with a 1:200-250K map and just following route signs to the next town/village - it may be a bit slower, but the cycling's all so pleasant it doesn't matter.

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Brookly_Bay in reply to @Thrustvector

If you do go Calais/Dunkirk to Ypres then as suggested Westvleteren is indeed en route. Even better and very close is St Bernardus brewery in Watou - has a lovely guesthouse (https://www.sintbernardus.be/en/guesthouse-en) you can stay in, and as of this year, a very nice roof top bar/restaurant (https://www.sintbernardus.be/en/barbernard-en)- highly recommended.

This V2 launch site en route to it as well is incredible and well worth a visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockhaus_d%27%C3%89perlecques

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