You can make relaxing bike tours over old tow paths along small canals and rivers and via lanes with a lot of poplars to ancient villages, where beer is still being brewed like in grandfathers times. And when one tries this local village beer in a authentic pub or in an outside street café under the trees, the people approvingly raise their glass, especially when one arrives by bike.

Day 1 (Sat): Bruges

Day 2 (Sun): Bruges – North Sea – Bruges (Approx. 55 km/33 miles)

Day 3 (Mon): Bruges – Moerebrugge | Moerebrugge – Ghent (Approx. 40 km/24 miles)

Day 4 (Tue): Ghent – Dendermonde (Approx. 48 km/29 miles) | Dendermonde – St. Amands

Day 5 (Wed): Dendermonde – St. Amands | St. Amands – Temse – Antwerp (Approx. 42 km/25 miles)

Day 6 (Thu): Antwerp – Lier –Willebroek (Approx. 45 km/27 miles)

Day 7 (Fri): Willebroek – Mechelen – Vilvoorde (Approx. 40 km/24 miles) | Vilvoorde – Brussels

Day 8 (Sat): Brussels

In italics printed parts will be covered by ship