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When Beertje was asleep, it was an excellent moment to leave him behind with Jan and take Kabouter on a walk through the woods. I recently have the feeling we hardly go walking anymore in th… Read More

At the request of Kabouter, we walked the Tour de la Warche once again, only 2 days after our first time. This time Jan and Beertje joined us. The weather was whimsical april-like: sun, clou… Read More

We were just loading the car to drive to the Ardennes after an absence of 5 weeks, in order to go and tame the grass field there and check out the progress on the attic renovations   wh… Read More

Kabouter was quite disappointed on Saturday that we had not walked along the Warche river but that was not feasible with a stroller for Beertje.   So I promised him to take him on… Read More

Jan had observed in some fields that the daffodils are out. The woods in East Belgium, a bit of Luxemburg and a bit of the Eifel are one of the only regions where wild daffodils grow in the… Read More

Previous weekend the temperatures dropped and we forgot our hot vacation just a week before. But fortunately it was nice and sunny weather on Sunday.  Monday was a Belgian holiday for R… Read More

In the east of Belgium, at the countries heights, you can either be out of luck and stuck in clouds while the rest of the country is enjoying some sunshine...or the opposite. Apparently… Read More

We enjoyed a long weekend in the east of Belgium thanks to our national holiday. We had dropped off Kabouter at his first ever Scouting camp on Monday morning and were now trying to adjust t… Read More

 I had enjoyed my solitary evening walk very much a few days before and when one of the next days, the boys decided to stay home and play there, I left again for another walk on my own… Read More

 Part of the Tour de la Warche is the children's favourite walk, and we can loop it from our house, so I love it that we do not need to take a car to a starting point.  The rather… Read More

Some habits are odd. We walk the Tour de la Warche so often but always in one direction. Then we stop at the bridge to throw stones in the water but disregard that the trail continues there… Read More

Another weekend in November, another new walk to be tested.  The new map of walks in Waimes and Malmedy showed us a loop around Ovifat and Reinhardstein that we hadn't done in that exac… Read More

In the third weekend of January all of Belgium was treated to fresh snow. While I love snow, the idea of driving through snow for long distances (and not knowing how other's will drive or no… Read More

One week ago the temperatures went slightly in the direction of defrosting after a rare week of strong negative temperatures. Ha, true winter in wintertime, I love it. It felt good to have b… Read More

We spend a extended long Easter weekend in the east of Belgium. Despite the fact that Easter is a bit early in the year and that nature awakes generally a couple of weeks late here at the "h… Read More

The children start picking up longer distances and the walks have been redesigned in town. That triggers some investigation on the local walking maps and the discovery of new itineraries.&nb… Read More

Finally end of May brought us sunshine and the opportunity to get outside the house without a jacket. That was about time! Gosh summer should start knocking at our doors and we were still in… Read More

 Tour de la Warch is our home walk...the one we do most as it is our children's favourite.  We've done it over and over again in all seasons. And now that the children can handle a… Read More

The Past Monday was a glorious sunny day and the rest of the week promised to be more cloudy. So if there was any day that I wanted to make a nice walk, it was Monday. Kabouter requested to… Read More

The children aren't always motivated to go on walks with me, but I'm still the adult, so I have the advantage to make the decision for them.  I want them to be outside for part of the d… Read More

 It had been a while that we went for a walk with the entire family.  It took some discussion where to go: Jan wanted to go to the Botrange now that the highway there had been re-o… Read More

 Some quality time with Beertje when his brother was too busy with his social calendar. If you ask our children where they want to walk, it's always going to be the Tour de la Warche.&n… Read More

It's not always easy to get the children out the door.  We limit their screen time, and they are whining to be bored and yet, usually they don't want to go for a walk. On Saturday… Read More

A crisp layer of snow and some sun...that requires a walk and we went to check out near Belgium's highest point to see if there was any more snow there or not.  The children wanted to w… Read More

At the Mother Day's weekend we finally returned to the east of Belgium and it did me so well. The children knew I had really looked forward to this since we had cancelled coming a few times… Read More

Early June was a gorgeous sunny weekend and a rare one that we had the time to spend all weekend in the east of Belgium. So Jan proposed to make a long hike on Sunday, taking our picknick. H… Read More

Cover Image Credit: Pixabay Belgium is a small and humble country that is frequently eclipsed by its increasingly well-known neighbors, yet this is a fantastic destination that ought to be o… Read More