We have fond memories of our first visit here when Dave and Ria, eager to show us the sites, walked us along the beach on a far from fine spring day. Then, we were sand blasted from behind by a mix of ice and freezing grit, having to stop for hot soup every few hundred yards to give us the strength to tackle the next few hundred, all the while trying to look as though we were having a good time.
Autumn weather thankfully is a little more forgiving and therefore good times come perhaps more naturally. It was still a little chilly, but not enough to spoil our morning stroll through the backstreets of De Panne and Koksijde.
The sailing season is over and now it's hunting season apparently and as we sat in the Koksijde Yachting Club lunched heartily on game bird and deer and eel, with the odd extra hardy kite surfer flashing past the window, we had to ponder over who was having the most fun.
Was it, we wondered, those who are out braving the cold winds and soggy ground and occasional hailstorm? Or could it possibly be us, sitting in the warmth of the cosy clubhouse, on sheep skin seat warmers no less, smiling perhaps a little too smugly as the odd outdoorsman ventured in, blue-lipped and bedraggled, dripping with sand and ocean, in search of a little thaw?
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