Camping GT Keiheuvel

After your several days wildlife watching around the woodlands and sand dunes of the surrounding nature park, take to the car for an urban adventure or two in towns and cities around Belgium and the Netherlands. Among the townie options around this part of Flanders are Geel (25 minutes’ drive), set on the Nete river and home to a clock museum, a lamp museum and – pic opportunity alert – a swathe of art nouveau graffiti on the walls of Saint-Alexis college. There’s also Eindhoven, 50 minutes away in the Netherlands: head here for the open-air Eindhoven Museum, art by Picasso and others at the Van Abbemuseum, and the De Ontdekfabriek/Discovery Factory kids’ museum at Strijp-S. It’s well worth the hour and 15-minute drive to Antwerp for a day (or two), for yet more museums including the MoMu for fashion and threads fans; other must-dos include walks around the Grote Markt district or along the banks of the Scheldt, and family days among the sculptures in the Middelheim Museum.