We got home last night from a wonderful weekend of fall colours surrounding little villages in the Belgian Ardennes. We even celebrated Halloween with Frunty dressing up as a stripey cat and going trick-or-treating! Can you believe it? The little village of Grupont where we stayed in a 15th century mill, started the tradition of trick-or-treating just three years ago. We didn't expect homes to have carved pumpkins in front and ghost-shaped lights strung up outside their windows but that is just what we found. Thanks to Gramma's lipstick, some crazy striped stockings and a funny, acorn-shaped hat, Frunty had an absolute ball knocking on doors and shouting, "Bon Hallowe'en" and saying, "Merci, au revoir" after receiving candies. We met other trick-or-treaters, namely ghoulish-looking kids and witches. I will put photos soon. Celebrating Halloween was really the highlight and once we got home, we enjoyed a pumpkin-shaped dessert! Some trick-or-treaters even came to the door of our "gite"!



We also visited the caves of Hans-sur-Lesse which are well worth a visit and the town of Bastogne to see a flea market. On the way home yesterday we enjoyed walking around the village of Redu where we ate a nice lunch and visited some bookshop. It almost looked like the Cotswolds. We are very happy that Gramma and Grampa chose a long weekend in the Ardennes because now we have wonderful memories of our time spent there. Hope you all had a happy Hallowe'en too!