We are staying in one of the oldest towns in Flanders. We arrived to the annual organ festival with thousands of people in the streets looking and listening to organs brought in from all over Europe. We could hardly walk our bikes through the crowds to get to get to our hotel plus when we entered the city there was a mile of the street turned into a giant garage sale. Lots of local color.
The ride was a bikers dream, lots of bike paths. These guys were fishing for trout (?) with gigantic poles that they had to brace on shore to maneuver them out to the center and then the tip of the pole was under water, doing what I don’t know.
We stopped at the de Cam Brewery in Gooik. This beer is only brewed in an 18 mile radius and is in barrels for 3 years. No yeasts are added but is made by spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts. Tasted like beer and champagne.
My friend Jill and I still taste testing in Geraardsbergen
WOW!! Love the organs. Did you hear them or were you too busy drinking beer??? By the way…I am wondering about the biking. Most of the pictures are with Beers not bikes….
The organs were SO loud and they were every 50′. There was one in our hotel doorway and we had to run to our rooms and get out quick. Stopped at 6PM thank god. Hard to take a picture riding a bike, easy with a beer. I’m now collecting beer pics and going to make a special page.