Time: 1 hour 22 min
Distance: 6.9 km
Route: Leuven station to lake to Vlierbeek Abbey to home
With: my husband
Cold and blustery but dry! The sun tried to come out but it was mostly gray. I looked for crocuses to photograph but only found some urban art on the path along the old train tracks:
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| Welcome to Cockroach Town? Really? Hmmm |
We made it out to the lake where the path joins up on a
Grande Randonnée footpath (the white and red striped mark on the pole indicates a GR path, which is a long distance walking route you can take all over Europe...a lot of the paths we hike join up with GR paths):
The path goes around the famous lake I used to run loops around for half marathon training and which was frozen and gray looking today:
And then finally, we saw Vlierbeek Abbey in the distance. We contemplated stopping at the little cafe there for a coffee but we were afraid if we stopped walking and got all warmed up, it would be hard to do the last 2 kilometers in the cold, so we kept on going.
At home, I got a big pot of
pasta e fagioli going on the stove...mmmm. Tasted good after a winter's walk.
