Winter Walks: To School and Back, in Marke, Belgium - Gardenista
What does your garden look like in winter? In a small Flemish town in West Flanders, Alesa Dam usually drives to her daughters’ school to deliver the girls, ages 7 and 5, before heading to her office. : Do you you have a favorite route that changes with the seasons? An hour’s drive from Antwerp, Marke is a small town (pop. Photograph by Alesa Dam via Flickr. “Remains of human civilization in Marke dates back to the second and third centuries A.D.,” Dam says. “Winters in this part of Belgium are very soft,” says Dam. photograph by Alesa Dam via Flickr. Photograph by Alesa Dam via Flickr. A medieval chapel and leprosarium, where patients’ records date to the late 1400s, was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1944. Like many cities in Belgium, each winter Kortrijk floods the main square to create an ice rink during the winter holiday season. Photograph by Alesa Dam via Flickr. Behind the hedge (L) is the municipal graveyard next to “de markebeek,” the Marke brook. “It is a rather curvy brook, except for one straight part,” says Dam. “In the top left corner, you can see a path. That is the ‘markebekepad,’ ” says Dam. Photograph by Alesa Dam via Flickr. Photograph by Alesa Dam via Flickr. : Do you you have a favorite hike that changes with the seasons?