Belgium cycling-but not for me

[papaver]

Awesome site, papaver! What a great use of mapping software and a great way to encourage cycling. Oh to have just 1/2 that many routes...

It's our national sport. You know, it's healthy, it's perfect for kids, adults, and older people. My parents are in their mid seventies and they still cycle every day. At least 35 kms per day (exept when the weather is too bad).

It just comes natural to us, first you learn to walk and then you learn to ride a bike.

[Tri Girl]

I want to live in a country like that. I may have to become Belgian.

[Reesha]

This thread makes me miss Belgium like MAD!

When I lived there I wasn't really a 'cycling' for pleasure lass yet... still was a cycling for utility girl as I had been through most of my youth. I don't think I had any real appreciation for the sheer volume of bike safe routes. I remember before school started up in Brugge that we did some really nice rides to Knokke-Heist and Sluis, NL but it's been ten years and the memories are distant. I remember pulling ourselves across canals on a cable-guided raft too! So neat. Damme was also a favorite place to ride to as well.

Anyway, I think a bike tour of Flanders and the Netherlands is in order... maybe that will be my next vacation, although my mom wants me to go to Australia and stay with her friend in Sydney for a month. She's got three teenage boys and has always wanted a daughter! Also, I probably need a touring bike first... all in good time!

[Reesha]

Also, shootingstar, how did your partner find Belgium when he went?