...treated us to a great concert last night. I am used to it by now, but for Marijke it was a first!! Great and we sat on the fourth row, pity I did not take the camera But what is that with the mustache?
...in the evening,after everybody had a bit of rest, Pauline had a little dip. Was it her guide who dragged her all over the place? Sorry Anyway, such nice weather asks for a barbecue, at Zsofi's place. As usual to much food again, but still room for a quickly made triffle no evidence off that anymore.
We got Pauline a bit of a surprise, washandjes off course, 2 for every day of the week and in her favorite colour.
Saturday morning, we filled two cars and drove to Noorderwijk to the farm of Sus, he is the one in the green apron. We did get a lively, fun, inspiring talk about the aspargus and the live around the farm.
As you can see everybody is interested, and it is very hot!
His workers are guest workers from Poland or Romenia, our Zsofi could talk to them...
It is al done by hand, the picking, the washing, the sorting.
I'll pick you up at Antwerp station and then we go! We drive to our B&B, bacon and eggs, for 2 nights, somewhere on the flemish french border, Gingelom.
On Thursday we visit Hasselt, a nice city.
On Friday we go and buy sweet cherries, if they are ready, because it has been cold so long they might not be... We also have coffee at my Mexican friend, Fabiola, who has a coffee -chocolate shop. Then we drive back to Westmalle after a stop at Alden Biezen, an old castle. After dinner we take our bicicles and ride to Zoersel for ice cream.
On Saturday morning we drive to an asparagus farm, and have lunch somewhere nice. In the evening our famous neighbour barbecue.
On Sunday we pick Tom up from the airport, have breakfast in Brussels, and spent the day there.. and then your visit here is already over
We had our day out with the 'kliek' friends. It was Rita and Eric's turn to organise it and gues what they where married for 25 years last week! The led us to the Drunense hei in Holland, we took a bicicle ride, 30 kms, and at the end there was a restaurant, how conveniently! It was a great restaurant and they treated us to an aperitif, an asparagussoupe and asparagus a la Hollandaise + coffee. The restaurant is mentioned in the Michelin guide, can you imagine. It was a great meal, delicious. After that we returned our bicicles and drove to..... 's Hertogenbosch! We went for a walk and took only little streets, I mean realy small. It was lovely, had a drink and boarded on little boats that took us through the canals, very nice I found. Then we drove back to Westmalle, to pick up Jef. He had a bad fall several weeks ago, needed a knee operation, this way he could joins us at the Trappist cafe. We had another meal there,this time we had to pay ourselves! It was after 7 by then, we left at 8.30 in the morning. Maurice and I where home at 10.30 p.m. It was a great day and the weather worked with us so beautiful!!
Sunset over Keulen, that was the only time we saw the sun on Saturday. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Every to be bride and groom celebrated their batchelor night, I had great fun with it, and then there where the ice hockey fans!!!
On Sundaymorning she was there from the start, so we showed Hilde and Marijke a beautiful Keulen. A cosy city, nice cafes and terraces.
