Brecht (Brecht and Sint-Leenarts villages).

Monday 20 April

From Wiki:  Brecht (Dutch pronunciation: [brɛxt]) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in-'t-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts. On January 1, 2006 Brecht had a total population of 26,464. The total area is 90.84 km² which gives a population density of 291 inhabitants per km².

Of the three towns, Sint-Job-in-‘t-Goor is by far the biggest of the three towns which is why we gave it a miss. Brecht village seems to consist of a large church, a number of restaurants and plenty of bakeries and patisseries, and not much else but very pretty in the Belgian way. Sint-Lenaarts appears to be larger with bigger shops, more traffic and a lot more people. The highlights of the day were Ian finding heaven in a huge hardware store from which he emerged with a huge grin and a new rotary disc sander; we also did not escape unscathed and apart from batteries, pliers and sandpaper, I managed to find a decent 5 pound hammer to use on our mooring stakes.

No pictures of either town unfortunately...

That evening we went for sundowners at the local pub, the name of which completely escapes me. Beers we tried were Stella for Lynn, Zot (a local brew) for Ian and a Karmeliet Tripel for moi – Sian drank a glass of dry white wine as usual.

 

Choose your brew!

Zot.

Karmeliet Tripel

 Dinner at the adjoining Eethuis De Linden consisted of fresh summer asparagus followed by an excellent schnitzel with frites and vegetables for three of us and an equally enjoyable goulash for Lynn.

And then home to another gorgeous sunset and bed!