The original theme for this weekend trip was "Beach, Bike, and Band." Our friends, Clive and Maria, invited us to go to the West Flanders region of Belgium to hear a band. The lead guitar player in the band was Clive's guitar teacher. The band was playing in a small town that none of us ever heard of. Because there were no hotel accomodations in that town, we decided to stay in Oostende, which was close by. Oostende is a popular family beach destination on the North Sea.
The West Flanders area is well known for biking so we were thinking of finding a good bike trail to spend the day on. The weather ended up being okay, but looked a bit iffy at first so we left our bikes at home. There seemed to be a lot of crazy vehicles to rent along the beach so we decided to get one of those 4 person bikes. We had a blast, especially when we had our most reckless driver, Rick, behind the wheel!
The bar we went to at night was a total dive and the bands were all pretty terrible. Nevertheless, we had a great time during the day riding the bike and exploring a beer bar that we found in Rick’s trusty beer book. The next day we tried out another beer book recommendation, which was in a small town on our route back to Brussels. The tiny brewery had a café that looked like an old bingo hall—zero atmosphere, but we discovered delicious beer that can’t be found anywhere else in Belgium. We also got a tour of the brewery from the nice owners. So the weekend sort of lived up to it’s original theme, but I think the word "beer" should be added to the title.
3 comments:
sounds like a blast.
This is all very fun to read, but what about Scotland? :-)
Hi Peggy, I'm getting there. I still have London and Normandy to do first. Thanks, again, for being such a gracious host. As you know, I thought Scotland was LOVELY :-)
Say hello to Henry and George. The Scotland blog should be coming this week--I hope.
-Stephanie
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