I had had enough .....

    

Yesterday afternoon I had had enough (for friends, see yesterday’s posting). My wife saw the signs and suggested that I go walking. I have a small collection of favourite places in Belgium for such situations. One is Postel, a restored Norbertine abbey up by the Dutch border.

 Curiously, in Belgium, nearly all monasteries are places to go away for a Sunday afternoon with the family, walk a kilometre or so with the kids and the dog, then have an ice-cream, a beer or a pomme-frites. I doubt whether one person in five actually goes into the church, but there is something about such places, often in attractive country settings, that draws people.

     

The hour’s drive was enough already to clear my mind, and half an hour in the church and the adjoining herb garden did the rest. I then slipped off to my ‘secret lake’ in a nature reserve just too far away for your Sunday strollers.  After that I could face the world, and a busy week again….