Category Archives: travel, Belgium

Marsh bloomers

Posted on 08/07/2025 by Patricia

June 14th – July, 2025, High Fens. Walking on the wooden paths (“caillebottis” in French, “vlonderpaden” in Dutch) of the Belgian highland, the marsh bloomers just above the high grasses attract immediate attention.

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Tiny monsters

Posted on 19/06/2025 by Patricia

June 13-14th, 2025, High Fens near the Belgian-German border. The leaves of the sundew (zonnedauw (NL), rossolis (F)) are particularly well-equipped to catch small insects and any minute things that come too close to their tentacles. These tiny monsters aren’t … Continue reading →

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Wild bloomers

Posted on 13/06/2025 by Patricia

June 12th, 2025, High Fens, Belgium-Germany border. Late spring in the High Fens offers special treats such as cottongrass (veenpluis), common sundew (zonnedauw) and arctic starflower with six or seven sepals (zevenster). Also, we were careful not to step on … Continue reading →

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Bathing beauties

Posted on 18/04/2025 by Patricia

April 10th, 2025, near Rochefort. This man-made pond amidst the forest attracts a diversity of small and colourful guests that are very keen to take advantage of the fresh water…

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Forest dwellers

Posted on 17/04/2025 by Patricia

April 10th, 2025, near Rochefort. This hide is well-hidden and allows to detect and observe for a while even the smallest birds and cutest forest dwellers.

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Staying close to the stream

Posted on 26/03/2025 by Patricia

March 23rd-24th, 2025, East-Belgium. The signal of spring is discrete: early daffodils start colouring the meadows of the higher valleys while insect-eating birds such as the white-throated dipper and the great yellow wagtail are ready to care for their offsprings.

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The still landscape

Posted on 25/02/2025 by Patricia

Feb. 1, 2025. Repeating a walk is never the same as it was. Winter is ideal to view the landscape from a different angle : everything seems quieter, more static, more desolate… The colours are, however, more vivid than in … Continue reading →

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Tomorrowland

Posted on 10/11/2024 by Patricia

High Fens, East-Belgium, Nov. 7th. We went on the wooden path in search of the remains of a former life-giving forest, these ghosts that rise above the horizontal landscape and appear as tortured souls waiting for redemption…

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