Hike in Belgium | Home of chocolate and beer | #SCAWorldChallenge #stealthcampingalliance

Welcome to Belgium!
In March I’m participating in the #scaworldchallenge of the #stealthcampingalliance.
In this challenge I’m going for a hike and I’ll be showing you which part of the World I’m from!
Welcome to the country of beer and chocolate and join me on this 2-day hike in Belgium!

Channels I mentioned:
– Out of bounds
https://www.youtube.com/@UCwSmrRECtCYJ97FigbTw8RQ
Video with the announcement of the #SCAWorldchallenge, March 2024

– Camp like a beun
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqc1kE53K8uqYgn0GBzyLuA/channels
 @oldirtybeuner 

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00:00 Introduction
01:30 Where I’m from?
02:09 Where I live…
04:08 Welcome to Sint-Truiden
04:54 Belgian chocolates
07:00 Belgian beer
09:30 GR hiking network
10:34 Bivakzone ‘Het Vinne’ Zoutleeuw
12:08 The next morning
13:48 Saying goodbye

Belgian chocolate, Belgian beer, welcome  to the stealth camping Alliance World Challenge Hi, I’m Kaat, I’m Poefi and this is Frodo.  And we are from Steps by Kaatje. Welcome back to  our channel Today we’re participating in the March challenge of the Stealth Camping Alliance

This challenge was set by Out  of Bounds and this challenge is #SCAWorldChallenge  Which means that I’m going to tell  you all about which part of the world I’m from.  If you want to know that, you’ll have to  join me on this little adventure. First I’m going  

To go for a little walk. I have my backpack, so we will be camping out tonight! Come on! Now the question is, where am I from? Well,   I’m from Belgium and Belgium is this tiny little   country which is stuck between the Netherlands,  Germany, Luxembourg, France and the North Sea.  

We’re quite a small country but with a lot of people  in it. 11.6 million to be exact. That’s a lot. Before I go into some more typical Belgian  stuff, I’ll show you where I live!   Welcome to Ulbeek, the village where I live. we have a church a tea-room

A bike shop a drink Center a primary school and it’s the home of the Patton Drivers drivers with  their yearly happening. When Ulbeek becomes the  center of the world! a cultural center with a  Cafe restaurant and a little shop with local  specialties

Maybe the most special place  is this old church. After they built the new   one, this one wasn’t used anymore. When I was  young, it was a depot for furniture. When they   wanted to make the cemetery a little bit bigger,  they wanted to take down the church  

They finally didn’t. They made it into a very  special place. It ends up being the only   church, I think in Europe and in Belgium, where  you can be buried inside a church! Come on we’ll check it out!

We just walked into Sint-Truiden which is a town in  Haspengouw, in the eastern part of Belgium   and close to where I live. why did I take you  here? Well this town is nice and it’s worth a   visit if you’re in the neighborhood. But you  don’t really have to put it on your bucket list.

But if you go into Brussels, which is the  capital of Belgium, that’s worth a visit. Because   it’s also the center of the European Union and  they have the headquarters of the NATO. It’s quite an important city. Of course you also have Bruges, which well known all over the world.  

The old town, is located on the west side of the  country and is also very much worth a visit!   Belgium has a lot to offer, let me tell  you!    There is another reason why I wanted to come into town. And that’s because there’re  some other things that Belgium is known for!  

One of them is chocolate! I always take  some dark chocolate from Côte d’Or, when I go out   hiking. Because it’s really good, it’s sugar and  it’s healthy! But of course if you   want to have the best chocolates you have to go  for the Pralines and that’s what we are going to do now!

I got a little package of Belgian chocolates,  Pralines. I think they’re going to be really   great! We often buy them when you go for  a visit somewhere and you want to take a   little present. Belgian chocolates works  all the time! Also Belgian chocolates  

Are the best if you can share them! I know  the perfect person to share it with come on It looks good! okay let’s do taste test. which one is which? I like the black one. it’s sweet it’s chocolate So Belgian chocolates you share! I don’t think this was the easiest way, but fun!

The next place I wanted to stop was at  the Brewery of Wilderen. Where they have   some pretty good beers. The only problem is the  the Café is closed for the moment. But I think   I found a solution. There is another Cafe  a little bit further down the road, come on.  

Belgium is basically a Catholic country or  at least it used to be. So over the centuries we had a lot of monasteries and a lot  of monks. They were the best in brewing   beer. In Belgium we definitely have a lot of  monks that brew beer. We’re a beer country for sure! cheers

It’s not made by  monks but it’s pretty good Timing isn’t my strongest point. It’s a quarter  past 5 and I have still more than 5 kilometers to go.   In March it does get dark rather early, so we’ll  see if we will be able to pitch our tent before dark

This behind me, is a Belgian flag a Belgian tractor with black yellow and red the trail has become quite muddy and slippery.   I hope I will make it to camp without  falling down or having to walk through water Something typical Belgian, French, European,  is the white and red markers for the long distance  

Trails, the Grand Routes, which you can follow all  through Europe. Like this one is the GR128.   It goes all the way from Wissant in France to  Aachen in Germany. That’s a long way. I’ve   been following this one today and I’ll probably  be following it for bit tomorrow. Also this ones  

Are nice too. That’s, I think, typical Belgian.  It’s a Node Network. You can do a local   hike. Going from one node to the other and you  make it as long as you want. It’s really neat. We have arrived where I want to camp  tonight. It’s at this Bivakzone.  

It’s something typical Belgian as well. You have a  few in the Netherlands but mostly they’re in Belgium   They’re spots where you can camp for free,  kind of wild, but still it’s legal. Which is nice.  That’s what I’m going to do tonight. But  it’s getting dark. So I’m going to hurry now and  

Pitch my tent before it’s completely  pitch dark, and then I’ll get back to you. Got it pitched before it was completely dark.     I have my camp set up and I’m having dinner right now. After dinner I want to make a little  campfire, or at least I’m going to try.   

The wood is kind of wet so it might not really  work very well. But I’m going to try.    I’ll have some Belgian chocolates as dessert  and after that I’ll crawl into my tent.    I’ll probably see you guys tomorrow morning. How does  that sound? Good night. Don’t let the bedbugs bite!

Good morning. I’m still trying to wake up  a little bit. You have to listen to all the birds It’s crazy isn’t it? They’re  really much more awake than I am.   Frodo slept outside. He looks happy to see  me and I’m happy to see him. Good morning Frodo.

Let me show you this Bivakone. You have one,   two and three Camp spots. There are three  tents allowed with a maximum of 10 people. Here, on this one, you can make a campfire  and there is a little toilet and even some trashcans

It’s not the first time I’m staying  here at this Bivakzone. I was here with Luna,   this is Frodo, but before we had Luna. I was  here just after Lockdown. First thing I did, I   hiked in 3 days from my place to Leuven. I slept the first night out here.

I’m all packed up. My backpack is ready. Cleaned up my camp. Left no trace and I’m   ready to do the last eight kilometers back to my car.  I’m leaving you guys here because this is the   end of my #SCAWorldChallenge. I hope you enjoyed  getting to know Belgium a little bit better and  

Seeing where I’m from. Before I go I do want  to do a shout-out to another Belgian Channel   which is Camp like a Beun. He’s also part of the  #StealthCampingAlliance. He makes great videos.   He camps in crazy places and I’m sure he’s  going to participate in the #SCAworldchallenge  

As well. So if you want to learn a little bit  more about Belgium, you’ll have to watch his   video. Now I’m saying goodbye. You can  always consider subscribing, giving me a   little like and clicking on the little bell, that  way, next time, you get a notification when  

I put up a video. I’m saying goodbye in the  three official languages of Belgium Tot ziens! Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen!