Posts tagged with Belgium
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Chasing Sunshine Around Liège: Five Belgian Hikes
We decided to use one of the longer weekends in May to finally explore an area of Belgium that I had never visited before. We were looking for longer hikes rather than short family walks, so we left our daughter with her grandparents and headed towards Liège. The weather, however,...
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Camping in the Ardennes, visiting caves and trekking around beautiful lakes
Dinant, birthplace of saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax was our first destination on the way to the Ardennes. After a nice 20min walk along the riverside from the car parking, we had reached the center of the city with the famous Citadel above our heads on the truly imposing rock. It...
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French-speaking part of Belgium, Namur and Villers Abbey
The old wall of a medieval fortress made of red bricks and stone with the river slowly running in the background or maybe ruins of the abbey from XI century… these scenes for the unique pictures came to my mind while wondering about destination for the upcoming, sunny weekend. Photography...
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Mud, sweat and pain... a lot of pain!
“We’ll never do this again!” that was a decision we made after approximately 32 km (however a year ago, during our first attempt, I was swearing the same :p). This year we were fast enough to avoid elimination and finished the Iron Viking (Water Edition) in 6 h 54 min....