Duration
Eight days
When
Summer
Why?
Excellent walking, cycling and sailing in fine surroundings
Out of sight, out of mind – gone were the medieval streets of crow-stepped brick houses, canals, gold carillon towers and chocolate shops so often associated with Belgium and its capital, Brussels, or towns of Flanders such as Bruges, Ghent and Ypres. Gone, too, were the expansive and sadly all too common military cemeteries of the Great War.
There we were, at the Signal de Botrange – the highest point in Belgium – looking across a vast plateau of khaki-coloured grass dotted with pink heather, the occasional Christmas tree and, beyond, the wooded slopes of Germany’s Eifel National Park. It could not have been less stereotypically ‘Belgium’.
A region of quiet beauty
The attractiveness, aside from…
