posted by:

Zandsculptuurfestival in Blankenberge

Blankenberge Travel Blog › entry 3 of 23 › view trip summary

My third set of job interviews, with Lydia by my side to check out the science and lifestyle of our potential new homes - Montreal, Belgium, Ireland and London. Extra trips back to give talks and check out universities, a conference in Porto, and a few extra days sightseeing in Denmark, Netherlands and Luxembourg.

View All Photos

RSS Feed

Report spam

World › Europe › Belgium › Blankenberge

« Previous Entry: Going to Ghent Next Entry: The Friet Museum of Bru… »

Zandsculptuurfestival in Blankenberge

July 16, 2008

Waking up in Ghent, we decided to take advantage of the biggest benefit of living in Belgium - the ability to zip around Europe by train. Lydia decided that her life's ambition was to see the Zandsculptuurfestival in Blankenberge, a tiny town on the coast of Belgium. The town certainly had ocean alongside land, with a strip of sand in the intermediate zone, but no Australian could ever call it a beach. Luckily, the beach wasn't our aim, we were here to see het zandkasteel. Every year in Blankenberge they create the world's biggest sandcastles for the Zandsculptuurfestival. This year the theme was princesses, specifically Sleeping Beauty, Cinderalla and Rapunzel. The sandsculptures were indeed impressive, in both scale and detail. The secret is to use angular rather than spherical grains.