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BELGIUM – GR126 (7) – Lasne / Villers-la-Ville
Wikiloc: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=8024635
07:30: Back in Lasne. In Lasne, there is the association “Lasne Nature” who identified small walking trails all over the commune. All the trails have a reference and those references are...
BELGIUM – GR126 (6) – Brussel / Lasne
Wikiloc: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=7960834
Behind the cathedral of Brussels, there is an important intersection of walking trails. The Camino Brabantica goes South heading to Halle and next to Nivelles/Nijvel. There is a possibility to walk...
BELGIUM - Via Brabantica (5) – Mechelen / Brussel
Wikiloc: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=7954456
This is the day four on the Camino Brabantica. I stood up very early and arrived with the train at 6:30 at the station of Mechelen. The reason of starting early is that the walk to...
BELGIUM - Via Brabantica (4) – Lier / Mechelen
map: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/spatialArtifacts.do?event=setCurrentSpatialArtifact&id=7823429
On the third day of the camino Brabantica, I arrived at Mechelen, another important town. But first, let me show you the three-stores-high stamp I...
BELGIUM - Via Brabantica (3) – Antwerpen / Lier
map: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=7821770
This is day 2 on the Via Brabantica from Antwerpen till Lier. At the train station Antwerpen Centraal, you need to follow the Carnotstraat / Turnhoutse Baan (picture 1) straight till you quit...
Hello Tom,
I found a plan of the shell walk in Antwerpen here
http://www.visitantwerpen.be/docs/Stad/Bedrijven/Actieve_stad/as_tnc/Jacobsschelpenwandeling.pdf
The walk goes to the albergue. This walk can be done with a guide, so it's only available for groups who reserve in advance. I asked at...
I still have 20 days of vacation to spend this year so I decided to walk the Via Brabantica in stages. This means I take the train/bus till the start point and take another train/bus back home after the walk. A few days later I start walking where I stopped earlier. I started in Zandvliet just...
The split of the camino at the O.L.V. van Goede Bijstandskerk, ("5" on the previous map) is marked with a double shell on the ground. It's placed somewhere at the picture on post #26 where the text "Report a problem" is written. I just looked again in Google StreetView and the shells are not...
Hello,
I found this very interesting leaflet. It's available in The Sint Gorikshallen (www.sintgorikshallen.be) for free. Just enter the building between 10:00 and 18:00, walk over the cafe part and at the end, you will see a desk. The brochures are standing in front of the desk, some left, some...
For the moment I'm reading the book GR12 from Bergen Op Zoom - Braine le Chateau
It's edition 2002. I heard the path is actually the same today.
The path is long because it makes a lot of zigzags.
From Bergen Op Zoom till Antwerpen-Rivierenhof = 62,6km
Antwerpen Rivierenhof is not the centre of...
Hello Fatma,
Meanwhile, I already saw how the GR from Antwerpen goes into Brussels. And you are right. It comes from the North, in fact from the Atomium, and it makes a kind of curve at the boarder between 1000-Brussels and 1210-St-Josse-Ten-Noode. So it enters 1000-Brussels on the Leuvenseweg...
Hello all,
Next week I will meet a colleague at work who already did Bergen-Op-Zoom - Brussels in different stages. So I will have an idea where are the opportunities. When I have the info, I will come back.
Now I see which church.
This must be the one. The camino shell must be on the wall where I drew the red circle. Google didn't pass in the street in front of the church. I have to check.
And if someone is one day in Brussels during the lunch break or may be at the weekend, we can do the Brussels...
Hello Fatma,
Meanwhile, here are some other interesting pictures I took last Friday.
Behind the cathedral, there is an important GR cross.
The direction to the right Ukkel -Paris-Rocroi is pointing to the front of the cathedral (picture 3) and goes to the Grand Place. It make sense that this...
Hello Tom,
I just found this map. Belgium has some opportunities to start: Antwerp, Brussels but also Brugge, Luik/Liège,...
Antwerp connects Brussels and continues to Nijvel, St-Quentin, Paris, Tours, SjpdP.
But in Brussels, you can choose the yellow marked GR126 to Namen/Namur => Rocroi and...
Hello Kathy,
Thank you for your feedback and thank you to post some other pictures. Next time I'm in Antwerp, I will look to the ground. Looking to the pavement, I think you took the picture close to the cathedral.
Meanwhile, in Brussels I found the next marker close to the Kapellekerk/église la...
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