South of Brussels

We've tried to take advantage of our time off to do some visiting of the sights and to take a break for setting up the house. Yesterday we drove south to a small town named Namur which sits on the shores of the Meuse river. We then drove along the river about 30 km (18 miles or so) to Dinant. Here are some pictures along the way!















Dinant is the birthplace (on 6 November 1814) of Adolphe Sax who invented the Saxaphone. Ginger and I are sitting on a bench next to a statue of him. The other picture was taken during a walk along the river on the drive between Dinant and Namur.















The river has lots of boat traffic and uses locks to get the boats up stream. The cliffs on the other side of the river are beautiful and there are periodically houses and fortesses up on them. The picture to the right is of the Citadel in Namur (I stole the picture off the Internet because mine wasn't nearly so good!).

Here are a couple of web links of those areas:
http://www.trabel.com/namur/namen.htm
http://www.dinant.be/index.htm?lg=3&m1=31&m2=92