BLUE BELL WALK - Mon. April 16th!!!

Dear Ladies,

I have just been to the Bois de Halle and the blue bells are lovely in this sunshine. So was the meal at T’Kriekske. What with the sun and the beer, it was lucky that Keith was driving home.

I am proposing a DIFFERENT meeting place, so that we can do nearly the same walk as usual but take in this delightful restaurant about 2/3rds of the way round. You may want to bring your husbands etc another time, as it has very typical Belgian food, said to be the place where Belgian ex-pats want to go to when they return to Belgium. This should be an easier place to find. If you have a map of the wood it is called Acht Dreven and there is plenty of parking room.

Directions

39 Bluebell Walk – Acht Dreven

This route is for those coming from Woluwe Tervuren etc. Others should find their way to the motorway exit 22 and follow from there. Take the ring in the direction of Waterloo and go to the end where it meets the Brussels-Paris motorway. Take the Brussels direction and come off at the first exit 22. This winds round and where it meets the main road, signposted Waterloo on the left, you turn right. People from other directions might join at this point.

After a short distance you come to the centre of Braine-le–Chateau where you turn right at the traffic lights on the N 28. There are some signs warning of a deviation but you are local traffic and can drive round the one barrier. You drive 2 kms, exactly, arriving at a small cross roads at the boundary of Braine-le-Chateau (sign). Here, at the moment is a big barrier across the road. On the left is a (disused ?) Vieux Café. There is a small sign on the right, saying straight on to Bois de Halle Parking but this is a different Parking from ours. Turn right on Vlasmarkt and continue until you reach the big parking where 8 paths meet and there is an information board and seating rotunda. We have walked through here every year.

Do not come down the N 28 from the north as that is blocked at the moment.

I suggest you print this out and paste or staple it to your other directions.

The weather should stay fine. Bring water, sunhats, are we into shorts yet?

Look forward to seeing you

Sheila