Camping Cobut

Bring your bike (motor if poss) on your Belgian adventure if you can: a marked path of 160 kilometres nearby for bikers has heaps of scenic routes to investigate, while Flanders and the Netherlands are within simple zipping distance. Three options await if you're trying out the Molignée valley rail-bikes (you surely should): one on an eight-kilometre journey from Falaën to Maredsous, another of the same distance from Warnant to Falaën, and the third a 14-kilometre puff taking in all three via famed Maredsous Abbey. Make a day of your rail-bike adventures by adding a kayaking trip for 12 kilometres down the Lesse river (available to book from the start of April until the end of October), or by whizzing along to Dinant Adventure Park for watery and landlubbing challenges. More watersports are at the Eau d'Heure lake in Boussu-Lez-Walcourt, half an hour's drive from the site. Other days out include wandering around the fortified citadel of Namur and its Namur Provincial Museum of Ancient Arts, or keeping up the active theme with a trip to Aventure Parc in Wavre just under an hour's drive north.