Winter's Day

What do you like to do on a grey winter's day?

We love a nature walk with good friends.

Zwin Nature Park

Two weeks ago we gave away our tickets for Rock Werchter festival.

Although I was really looking forward seeing and hearing Whispering Sons,

The Cure and Tool live, my current physical condition (waiting for surgery)

doesn't allow me to visit such an energy absorbing event right now.

We're happy we found some young, eager and more energetic festival visitors!

Thinking of a much more relaxing activity...

the first thing that crossed my mind was the North Sea

We regularly visit the beach area on both sides of nature reserve Het Zwin

Old Habits Die Hard

Perhaps you remember how much I love this beautiful coastal area,
the border between Belgium and the Netherlands, 't Zwin

I'm a regular visitor for almost 40 years now.

On Wednesday: sun, wind and rain... we had it all!

The land in the sun is just across the border and therefore Dutch territory...

Done beachcombing in Belgium we crossed the border to meet some good friends...

We'll be back again... next week! (big smile)

for a large variety of beautiful photos form earlier visits click here

Peel Blue

What better thing to do than spend some quality time with friends!

Fab Frog

The time has come to spot some European tree frogs again...

Earlier posts here and here.

No kèk-kèk-kèk-kèk-kèk sounds today but nevertheless we did find them.....

a younster looking back... you can see the tiny skin folds

Cool Walk

YES!!!! Today much cooler temperatures!

Time for another hike at Wijvenheide.

(photos from our earlier walk here)

Still visible the effect of the long drought....

Exhausting Heat Wave

In the middle of an exhausting heat wave it's obvious to visit the beach...
So we headed for the North Sea. To Zwin nature park again.

We saw lots of storks in the surrounding fields...

After a short but very warm walk we arrived at the foot of the hot sand dunes...
and we could take a breath of fresh air at the slightly cooler and quiet beach

Even now, during this heat wave, we had the beach almost to ourselves...

You can see our earlier visits (beautiful photos!) to our favourite beach here