Although we are real 'nature'-persons we once in a while tend to visit a city for just a few days. This time we went to Paris and we have to admit it is a great city with lots to see and do and also..... a lot of people . It is such a big city that you just can't see everything in 3,5 days so here a just a few highlights of our visit.

We visited the Notre Dame and The Louvre. This museum is so huge you really need to make choices what you want to see. Elgar only was interested in the glass pyramids which form the entrance to this museum.



And what is visiting Paris without

We just returned from a short break in Belgium, to be precise in the Voerstreek, where we stayed in a lovely B&B called "De Kraanvogel".
"De Kraanvogel" is situated in Sint Pieters-Voeren and is surrounded by hills and forests.



This B&B has a huge garden which even has ample place for a ......horse (see the stable on the lefthand side of this picture)



As Elgar is not a real horse fan, we planned for several walks instead and because the weather was just great, we managed to do 3 lovely walks, which all started straigth from the doorsteps of this B&B. So stay tuned for more pictures to come shortly.

4 days off during Easter and thus we opted to have a short break in department Aisne in France, which is situated in North France, near the border with Belgium.

We stayed in the Chambre d'hote Bel Any, Any-Martin-Rieux (Fr). A Chambre d'hote is the French word for an B&B. This B&B is run by Dutch proprietors. They speak English, German, France and Dutch which comes in handy if you are not familiar with the French language.



Any-Martin-Rieux is a very tiny town in Picardie and the only thing which you can do in this region is bicycling and hiking/walking. If you are looking for a place where you can walk for a whole day without seeing any other hikers, then THIS IS IT. We did 3 walks in this area and we only saw one local person.

You can even take along Roxy, the house-dog of B&B Bel Any. She loves to go out and do some walking. She will listen to anybody who calls her name, ain't that nice.



And because it was Easter time we had a Easter breakfast and ....an Easter fire at night.



Our tracks will follow shortly !

Yessssssssssssss, we just returned from a ....hiking holiday in North Italy and Austria.
Elgar has seen many many mountains and lots of snow and is anxious to show it to you. So stay tuned.