Mini European road trip planning in our Belgium holiday farm house
Today as is the first day of the
Olympics in London and here we are away from it all in Belgium!! After a good
few years of not having a holiday due to little things that life throws at you,
we finally have been able to have a break from work and daily routine and leave
the country for a couple of weeks.
The old Ferry across the channel to Belgium- NO one in sight !
Initially we were going to rent a
cottage in Suffolk, then it was France, but after exchanging forthcoming
holiday travels with numerous friends, most of the people I talked to were
going to France!! Since I was a kid (my Mother
would very much agree on this one!!) there is always a part of me that wants to
do the opposite to the others...so I mentioned to Matt ‘Why not turn Left and visit
Belgium and Holland instead for our mini European road trip??? Matt got excited
about the idea too, so within 48hrs we were
doing our research through the net, looking at maps and travel
books ! One worry that I had to deal with
was our cats Kato and Woody!!! Who was
going to look after them?? How would
they cope?? Somehow it all worked out
like magic and through mutual friends Glen and Judy our new friend appeared on
our doorstep as we were leaving reassuring me over and over that it was all
going to be OK, so thank you Holly for
putting my mind at rest !!
Matt looking very pensive on our departure from England...
Having crossed the channel many times in my life with the ferry over to
France and used to seeing many travellers on board I was amazed to see that we
were NO more than 20 passengers, the boat was nearly an antique and there were
only two crossings scheduled a day instead of one every hour; it made it all more
delightful adventure!! On our arrival to
Belgium we did a two hour car journey to the beautiful area of Wallonia, where
we are staying in a gorgeous 250 yr old farm house in the rural village of
Eprave.
The lovely house and rural village in Eprave
Wallonia is a beautiful part of
the country surrounded by mountainous landscape, river streams and tinny little
stone built villages.
Local villages and interesting architecture
The villages are immaculately clean and consist of your
local amenities together with a couple of beer gardens, French fries fast food
shops, boulangaries and pastisseries with amazing eye candy as their essentials!
We are certainly the only tourists with a foreign car number plate to go through these places
which is very refreshing and what I have seen of Belgium so far has enamoured
me with the country with a certainty of our return!
Country walks beckon in our local village surroundings
Tomorrow we depart our stay in
the rural countryside whilst we take or journey to Brussels, Bruges and Ghent
followed by Holland! Aux bientôt ! Until the next e-postcard !
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