Walking from Waimes to Thirimont and back

 March has treated us with a lot of sun and blue skies and we were motivated to try a new walk.  

We started off in the city center of Waimes which gave us the opportunity to test the nearby new playground at the end of our walk...as such everyone was motivated and happy to head out. 

After crossing multiple residential streets in the beginning we found ourselves in the climbing fields with on top of the hill the 5 wind mills that are the eye catchers of the valley.  We always see them lined up on the horizon but now we'd climb that horizon.  

We debated which was "our" windmill since we are members of the cooperative that manages one of them.  (we looked it up at the end and in fact we "own"  2 mills together with many other cooperative members from the area). 

I know there is often a lot of resistance to wind mill but I find them very gracious and I am often positively intrigued by the whole forests of mills you cross as soon as we cross the border here into the Eifel. There is poetry in wind mills in my opinion! 

Kabouter had whiched for a walk into the woods and the green boxes on the map had promised us to cross some.  They were more vast than we had anticipated and were positively surprised by the beauty that we didn't know on the "other side of the hill". 

Down in the next valley far from the town we enjoyed the landscape and the view on the further hills of Thirimont where once we had another walk (looking back at the wind mills on this side of the valley :) ) and even a glimpse of the Amblève valley behind those hills where we once did a beaver walk. 

Slowly we returned back in the direction of Waimes, uphill with view of the windmills on top again.  Fortunately the holy Mother Mary provided us with a little bench to have a snack stop. 

With cookies in the stomac we had energy again to be goofy and play with our shadows or admire the local animals on our road. Once back at the windmills we knew we only had to descend back to town...where the local foodtruck with sweet fritters had opened in the mean time, so we could enjoy a nice sweet snack while testing the renewed playground. Perfect afternoon.