Loop from Cadzand to Bruges along the canal

A visit to Bruges is always recommended. On this tour, you'll also learn to appreciate the surroundings of the canal beauty - from beautiful canal paths to a quirky café. Unsurprisingly, there are no mountainous passages awaiting you on this tour; it remains completely flat. As long as the wind doesn't slow you down, you'll have a relaxing ride ahead of you.

It starts in the center of Cadzand-Bad. You drive a bit along the sea. But today the focus will not be on the sea, but rather on another body of water later on in the tour. First you cycle along fields to an enchanted place. A mighty, angular tower rises at the entrance to Sint Anna ter Muiden. It clearly towers over the picturesque houses that line the market square. Sint Anna ter Muiden has had city rights since 1242 and is now a very small town, but worth seeing. Shortly after you leave this, you collect your first Belgian driving kilometers of the day.

Now the fields dominate the panorama. You cycle comfortably through the green scenery until another pretty place catches your attention: Oostkerke with its whitewashed houses. Now you cross two parallel canals. Soon you will also have the pleasure of driving directly along a canal. Before that, you might want to visit a café. 't Vogelkotje is a delight for the eyes and the taste buds alike. The freshly baked cake is served in a lovingly decorated room - with an impressive aviary collection. In summer you sit outside under a parasol with a view of the meadows.

Refreshed, you cycle towards Damme, where a certain Tijl Uilenspiegel is said to have been born. Don't let that distract you and follow the channel from now on. This will take you to Bruges. There, another channel immediately takes over the task of accompanying you to the center. Your eye already falls on the houses lined up next to each other with their typical stepped gables. So that you can look around Bruges in a relaxed manner, the tour takes you to the underground bicycle parking lot. This is located near the large market square and is free.

After extensively exploring the UNESCO World Heritage city, you get back on the saddle and leave Bruges the way you arrived - along the canals. In the direction of Damme, this time you choose the right bank for a new perspective. In Damme you then change to the left side. Now you can switch off, because unlike on the way there, you continue along the canal. The trees along the way provide you with shade and create interesting reflections on the water surface. But every canal path, no matter how beautiful, has an end. And this ends in Sluis. By the way, you've been back in the Netherlands for almost a kilometer now. A water fountain greets you in the old harbor of Sluis. If you still have the energy for a short city trip, you can marvel at the Belfry, for example. This is the only one of its kind in the Netherlands. On the final kilometers back you can look forward to being accompanied by the canal again until everything revolves around the sea again in Cadzand-Bad.

If you are not in the region and would like to travel by train for this tour, you can change the route slightly and start in Bruges instead of Cadzand-Bad. Bruges Central Station, for example, is well connected to Brussels. With the nice Café ‘t vogelkotje and the almost endless places to stop for refreshments in Bruges, you are well looked after on this tour.