Chalet Belgium, Ardennes, Waimes, Chalet Le Jacques

Directly from the house you love cycling with low elevation. There is a lovely separate bicycle path on the former railway between Malmedy and St. Vith by a wonderful area. In Montenau you can relax on a nice terrace at Café Restaurant Terminus. For cyclists, it is really a challenge for cycling. To Stavelot and Wanne There is also the Stockau (often part of the Tour de France).
Around the house you imagine yourself in winter often in a ski area, it is so beautiful snowy landscape (see photos).
In winter, cross-country skiing and sledding from the chalet often as possible.
Cross country skiing slopes (High Fens, Rodt, Baugnez, etc.) and great ski slopes (eg in Ovifat and De Wanne, even with snowmaking and great for snowboarding) are nearby. Also nice is the cross-country ski at the Beer Museum in Rodt. After skiing (but summer also after walking) you can enjoy drinks and food.

The chalet is situated in a group of seven private homes. From the garden you walk into nature. It is surrounded by woods, streams and the river Amblève. A little further lies the small village Ondenval. The chalet has spacious grounds (2000 m2).

Bars, cafés and restaurants you close in Montenau, Waimes, Malmedy and St. Vith, but for example you can also take a walk in the forest of Rodt and then something to eat or drink in the beer museum (a winter ski and cross-country skiing paradise). Nearby are the Fens. You also sits near Germany with lovely towns of Monschau and all the great towns in the Eifel, but also Luxembourg's only a half hour drive.
In Coo is a small amusement park and a waterfall "Cascade de Coo".
Spa has a nice center, a casino and a beautiful new spa.
A larger theme is Phantasialand near Cologne.
New is a small war museum dedicated to the Battle of the Bulge. That is close in Baugnez.
Fishing for trout in Amel (or pick vergunninbg first to post Waimes) from our site, but also in a large pond in law, which is also a playground and a nice cafe / restaurant on the water.

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Only 300 km or 3 hours drive from central Netherlands, you enter a completely different environment and culture! Beautiful green hill and mountain, dense forests, picturesque villages and towns. Our house light at the end of one of the most beautiful valleys of the region. On the trout river Amblève and sheltered by the beautiful Wolfsbusch.
In the surroundings you will find lots of different landscapes and routes. The High Fens (6 km) are a very special and rough nature. Go look at Baraque Michel and the nearby Museum of Nature.
Belgium is well known for its delicious food and enjoy, but in the Ardennes Burgundian lifestyle that gets even more dimension. The shops are a variety of products including fine wines available. Another special feature several local high quality, such as trout Ondenval, various cheeses Thirimont, Ardennes ham Montenau, etc. Especially the game in the hunting season is nothing to sneeze at. For fresh game from the Ardennes and Eifel please contact the Catering in Robertville rightly or excellent cooked in the restaurant of Hotel Cyrano Waimes. Throughout the restaurants you get presented with high quality at a reasonable price. On the many terraces and in the cafes have the choice of all those delicious Belgian beers. Try the coachman Kwak beer in Café Scotch on the main square in Malmedy or go in Bellevaux (4 km) to the new brewery. Or go to the Beer Museum in Rodt at St. Vith. And the language! Our house is right on the linguistic border between the Walloon and German-speaking area (East Belgium).
Do not be put off by the French. Today, the people really do their best to answer you in Dutch and they do not succeed then offers German or English mostly outcome.
The East Cantons have again a unique culture. At the tourist office on the main square in Malmedy, you can get a lot of information about. The website: http://www.eastbelgium.com/ gives a lot of information. You can download all kinds of brochures about the area and activities.
A very special cultural aspect is the focus on the Battle of the Bulge. Nearby in Baugnez is a small museum that pays attention to the impact in the vicinity of Malmedy. But in many other places in the Ardennes, especially in Bastogne that history is palpable.

Walking can be unlimited in the immediate vicinity. One of the largest forests of the Ardennes, the Wolfsbusch, adjacent to the site. Tennis, horse riding and cycling (including mountain bikes for hire) is fully possible. Beautiful is also a walk along the sprookjesachtuige river with numerous waterfalls, the Ninglinspo near Remouchamps (see pictures). At a distance of 4 km are several beautiful villages such Ligneuville, Montenau, Waimes, etc. In the immediate vicinity You will find plenty of restaurants, nice terraces, cafes and pubs.
Anything larger can make day trips to Liege, Aachen, Monschau, Luxembourg, Vianden, Little Switzerland, Bastogne, La Roche etc. are also the Ardennes with its lovely setting, lovely villages, towns, an abundance of museums and attractions within your immediate reach . (Spa, Remouchamps, Stavelot, Cascade de Coo, etc.) you will find in Montenau Pools, Spa, St.vith and Robbert Ville. 15 km. is the famous water sports center "Worikken" on Lake Bütchenbach (sailing, surfing, swimming, paddle boats, etc.) In short, you can fully enjoy your holiday!
See also the website "The Escapades": http://www.belgie-toerisme.nl/contenus/echte_ardennen/nl/4864.html # menu

Waimes, 3 km to the north are two fine bakers (morning fresh petit pains and of course baguette in French). Along the road from Waimes to Malmedy, found just outside Waimes on your right a small Delhaize supermarket. At that store and at the gas pump in Waimes you can buy bags of wood for the stove. Drive further to Malmedy, then you come just at the beginning of this little town a huge Carrefour supermarket counter, where a variety of good food, good wine will, etc. can take. Prima butchers with first quality meat of cattle from the Ardennes found in Waimes.
Greeting supermarkets are at the border in Luxembourg where you can very cheap fuel. Well

In the stream which runs through the garden are quite a few waterfalls built and again moved by children. Of course, under the guidance can be a fire burned in the open fireplace. In the adjacent field the shallow stream flows and Steinbach The children can roam safely. Directly from the house You can also from this area for trout fishing in the river Amblève, but equally in advance Waimes get a permit at the post office.

Around the house are so many attractions. The castle of Reinhardstein, the Botrange nature center, the Spa / Francorchamps, Stavelot Abbey, the Museum of the circuit in Stavelot.

In the immediate vicinity of the house is Reinhardstein castle. This completely rebuilt from ruins medieval castle can be visited. Every weekend there are Nedeland speaking tours. Groups can be a private tour (outside normal hours) organized.

694 above sea level). About 20 km from the chalet) the natural center of Botrange (the highest point of the Benelux is Here you will find a complete history of the origin of the Ardennes High Fens. The Ardennes far as we know the oldest mountains in the world and ever occur at the South Pole. The nature center provides a good picture of how the Ardennes have become what they are today. For groups you can hire a guide to the exhibition can further explain (great value).

In the region you can great mountain biking. If one is not in a position to bring these self can rent them anywhere near.
The trails are almost unlimited in this piece Ardennes.

Railbike and devalkart

On an old railway line through the High Fens it, you can track biking. A track bike is a type pedal but for the track (at about 10 km from the house).

On the slopes of Ofivat (7 km), you can in the summer with a Devel Kart (a kind of go-kart) slopes downward. You use the lift to come up again.