Bike Tours of Belgium with Backroads

Discover Belgium’s Hidden Delights on a Backroads bike tour!

It was in Belgium that artist Vincent Van Gogh first learned to draw. Initially called there for missionary work, the beauty of the country convinced him that his true purpose in life was to console humanity through art. He went on to produce more than 2,100 artworks during his lifetime. He signed only those he was particularly satisfied with, using just his first name.

Finding your own spiritual awakening is easy to come by when you travel to Belgium. Go on a Belgium biking tour, and you’ll pedal through Bruges, a stunningly preserved medieval city with narrow cobblestone streets, steep-gabled brick houses, lofty spires, and meandering canals. You’ll spin into the romantic world Van Gogh painted — the world you didn’t think still existed. In the Flemish province of West Flanders, you’ll visit the city of Diksmuide, a ninth-century Frankish settlement that was the heart of Belgian resistance during World War I.

By the last day of your trip to Belgium, you’ll have come to know a real-life land that is crisscrossed by canals, dotted with castles, and edged by rolling hills. Saying good-bye will be hard; it’s very much like experiencing the sadness an artist feels when he finishes a painting of a beloved subject. Your consolation will be that one, final, traditionally brewed Belgian lambic beer is waiting — and it’s got your name on it.

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