Back home!

We are back, but going back next month for the brocante.

Last night we stopped in the north of France for the night before going home.

(Special for Linda ! Starbucks stop again on our way)

As we go through Belgium we bought some chocolate pumpkins 🎃!

And some spéculoos on our way.

I will have to get Bandit from the kennel and we will wait for our new trip in October!

Walking continues!

Hello friends!

Yesterday, we walked again and had lunch in the restaurant on the beach a very pleasant place!

It is so nice to walk there

Walking and cycling path along the shore

My favourite dish! Cheese 🧀 kroketje, with salad and fries.

 And appeltaart SO good!

The Sluice, l’Ecluse

Everyday we walk about 7 kms, it’s not much but for me quite a lot. We like to walk by the canal and look at the birds, ducks, geese and storks.

It is a very quiet place and we cross many cyclists on our way.

This is where we go shopping and where we have our favourite restaurant 

The Barsa a very good place!

 This is our hotel with a New England decoration, many New England

I love this little house, very cute!

A windy day and windmills.

Evening walk and drink 🥤 

Today, the temperature is back to normal after a very hot and stormy night. We had our breakfast with local cheese and ham, apple juice, coffee ( very good coffee) bred with homemade rhubarb jam and scrambled eggs 🥚 

I did not have lunch it was enough for the day. We will have supper at the hotel.

Then we went in a brocante I saw on our local tv. It is a nice place with lots of antiques and vintage stuff.

I bought the doll coffee set at the back on the right. It dates back around 1940. I have already two from my mother. I also found some vintage photos.

Lovely vintage windmill

Some porcelain 

Big chandeliers 

This is the kind of pram I was taken in photo in the 50’s

I was in the same pram.

I love windmills!

This one is a very old one in wood. 

That’s all for today!

We will have a short rest, before a walk by the sea and supper at the hotel tonight .

A very hot day.

Today, we went to the windmill to get some fresh flour then we decided to go shopping. We are used to go shopping each time we go there.

Afterwards, we went to have lunch in a crowded beach restaurant, the temperature was around 30 in the sun and many people on the beach and swimming. The temperature in the sea was very nice and cool , refreshing!

We came back to the hotel, had a shower and get dressed for our restaurant outing . We had a big tray of grilled fish.

The first picture is the kitchen where they grilled meat and fish.

It was early in the morning and a lot misty.

We also bought some Gouda cheese!

They have big shops in the pedestrian streets and one of the shops has a lot of different soaps. I like the perfume of soaps and I use to keep them with the laundry 🧺 to give a nice perfume.

 We did not go for our usual walk along the canal as there was a Three events contest, they had to run, ride a bike and swim in the canal and there were so many people from the Netherlands and Belgium early in the morning, but not in the shops!

Tonight, after the heat of the day, there is a lot of rain and thunder! It will be cooler tomorrow with wind.💨 

Tomorrow , we will visit some brocantes on our way.

Holidays!

Hello Friends 

We left this morning and drove North to Calais, Boulogne

Then to Bruges in Belgium and headed to the Netherlands 

🇳🇱 and finally arrived at Cadzand-Bad our destination.

We stopped on the motorway at the Baie de Somme and had a Starbucks latte macchiato and carrot cake for me!

They already had the Autumn pumpkin drinks !

We had our lunch on the beach . Cheese kroketen

This is the view from the restaurant 

Our ZEN bedroom! Hope we will relax 🧘‍♀️ 

 The view from our terrace. Unfortunately today it is a little rainy,  but sun is coming back tomorrow.