z e e b o d e m

We visited the Belgian coast – for the last time with our car! Such a hell on the highway whenever the sun shines and it’s weekend. It was wrong to expect it to be calmer on the road on saturday morning, during a weekend that started for most of the people already on wednesday afternoon. It was busy. On top of it we missed the alternative afrit because the signs were not clear enough and got stuck in the next one for 35 minutes! which was just five minutes less than it took us to drive there in the first place. And then the hassle of looking for a parking space.

But as a reward of all the trouble we were put through there was a panoramic view to the wide open sea waiting for us. A clear view to the blue ocean – almost all of the beach people were hidden behind a dune. A view that we could enjoy safely behind a window glass while listening to a soundtrack by Gainsbourg. We had a lunch in a brasserie down in the corner of the apartment building where our friends were staying. This happened in Sint-Idesbald before us moving on to a “cabane-park” in Nieuwpoort and they returning home.

It was a warm day turning to a warm evening. I had never been to such a holiday “trailer-park” before. It was cosy and quiet there although the area was packed with small toy houses with just a little bit of grass around each block. Space enough to put up a terras, few plants/trees and a small storage. Space enough to have a summer barbeque or just to chill around. Those bits of green that we miss in our city house.

We had dinner in the cabane of parents S with the parents of S.

The next one and half hours we were stuck on highway. That was pure horror and made us decide that it would not happen ever again.

Today we stayed home in Gent and ate the second taart we bought in de 3 B’s yesterday. Last bites in the afternoon with the leftovers of Talea. Gk was with the scouts and we had biked around watersportbaan and blaarmeersen. Stopped at café Leiezicht for duvels and daydreaming.

Chinese (at home) for dinner.