Beersel Castle in Belgium

This weekend we took our first road trip. We headed to a castle in Beersel, Belgium. It is the only one of it's kind here in Belgium. It was built in the early 1300s. It was absolutely amazing! The kids loved it. We all got a good workout that day climbing up and down all of those spiral staircases. The only drawback is that is wasn't what you call "child proof". We got stressed with Adalee a couple of times, but overall everyone did really well. Thanks Alicia for mentioning it to us!

(I won't say that Abrahm especially loved the castle because about 1 km up (very, very, uphill) from the castle was a special Brewery. The lady at the brewery said several beer companies from the US come there to learn from them).


Heading into the castle

The whole gang in front of the castle

The front of the castle

A different angle of the castle

I love these photos against that old brick. These were taken in the center courtyard of the castle.

My handsome crew

All 3 at the castle

Alden on the go

Brotherly Love

The kids walking across the bridge.

A closeup of the top of one of the towers. You can see all of the arrow slots going around.

Adalee inside

Tower 3
You can see the little watch tower at the very top!

Tower 2

Tower 1

The boys on the walkway

My guys looking out Tower 1

Towers 1 and 2 and the walkway

Tower 2 and the center court

A shot of Tower 3 from Tower 1

The kids at the top of one of the towers. Look how huge those beams are!

Abrahm and Adalee going down one of the many spiral staircases.

Openings just big enough to shoot a bow and arrow through were all around the castle.

One of the walkways around the top of the castle

A cell in the "Justice and Torture" chamber. It is only about 3 feet high.