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| Saturday - July 21 After breakfast we headed to the market square on bare bikes. Boy did they feel light and squirrelly! |
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| We weren't the only ones out on this beautiful summer morning. |
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| It was the Belgian Independence Day holiday so most of the surrounding stores were closed. |
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| But the market had so much to offer, who needed stores! |
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| A rainbow of tights caught our eye. |
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| We explored until about 10:00 then loaded up the bikes. The route followed the canal adjacent to the hotel so we were out of town really quick. |
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| Between Mechelen and Boom. We are liking the looks of all that flatness. |
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| The Temsi skyline looking from the south side of the Scheldt River. |
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| Doug trying for a different perspective on our way across the bridge into Temsi. |
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| We stopped for lunch in Temsi at a place along the waterfront that had a bunch of bicycles parked in front...... |
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| .....usually a good sign 😊 |
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| After leaving Temsi our route took us through the countryside. There was a lot of flying thistle seeds floating around us on the wind. |
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| There were a lot of natural areas...... |
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| ....and lots of water. |
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| We knew we were going to like Lokeren right away. |
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| After watching the Tour de France Stage 14 finish and having dinner at the hotel, we headed out to explore the town. |
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| Our explorations were accompanied by a beautiful clarion bell concert that lasted for an hour and included a wide variety of music. The church tower holds 3 large bells and 46 clarion bells. Playing the clarions is a big thing in this part of the country. Clarion bells = the 9th "C"! We listened to the last half (2nd video) from the hotel balcony. It was a delightful way to end a delightful day. (Suggest that you hit the full screen symbol and then hit play to get the full effect.) |
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