Wielrijdersrust Het dorstige hart

Like most years we spent a few days with the family in Nieuwpoort at the Belgian coast again. One of the things we do traditionally during these vacations is to go for a bike ride. Our bike path often leads along the conterdijk along the canal Nieuwpoort-Duinkerke and past a cyclist friendly brasserie : Wielrijdersrust Het dorstige Hart. It is also a B&B but we only needed some refreshment. They have a terrace in front of the Brasserie right next to the canal and also one in the garden at the back. When we arrived the terrace in front was full but the garden completely empty. We decided to grab a table inside. The interior is quite old fashioned but it has its charm. I had a local beer called Wulps Blondje which is a word game in Dutch. Blondje in this case is referring to the type of beer but it can also signify a blonde woman. Wulps can be translated to voluptuous but here it means literally : from the village Wulpen. The beer was nice, with a lot of taste. If you like beer then visiting West Vlaanderen is a good tip, there are a lot of small local breweries with season beer that you can probably not find anywhere else. And they all have their own taste. Some you may not like but if you like beer than anything must be better than Budweiser 🙂 .