I have been away for a couple of weeks from Blogland as I was lucky enough to have 10 days with my family holidaying in Europe. We set off in the middle of the night, and drove down to the ferry port in Dover. After a bit of a wait at the port, we boarded the ferry at 6am and waved goodbye to the UK...
Farewell white cliffs of Dover...
Feeling excited as we cast away from the docks...
Leaving the harbour...
the grey skies did not dampen our excitement...
Cheeky seagull hitched a ride, perhaps he wanted to swap chips for frites!
Sailing into the harbour at Dunkirk...
Once arriving in France we promptly set the sat nav for Belgium and headed for the village of Vielsalm, deep in the Ardennes. It rained heavily on and off for the whole journey, but this did not bother us one bit - we were far too excited!
We stayed in a lakeside chalet, lovely views out of the window in the evening...
Next morning we discovered some geese had made their home on the lake, they were quite vocal...
A lot of fun was had feeding these guys, they could be quite intimidating at times though!
On Sunday we set out for a country walk, deep in the forests of the Ardennes...
The landscape is a working area too, with the forest carefully managed for logging purposes...
But it still remains blissfully tranquil...
We covered over 8 miles in total. But although we were really enjoying these dream-like forest views, we were looking to catch a glimpse of something else...the excitement when we eventually spied, deep in the forest, what we were looking for cannot be described...
What do you think it was? And why do you think we were in Belgium?
Back soon hopefully to explain!
Helenxx
