Pier at Blankenberge

The Belgium Pier is a pier in Blankenberge, Belgium. It was built in 1933 after an Art Deco design by architect Jules Soete. The concrete structure stretches 350 meters out into the North Sea. The Belgium Pier replaced an earlier structure that was the first pier at the Atlantic and North Sea coasts of the European continent, and the only other pier like it is the Scheveningen Pier in the Netherlands.* We visit this city every once in a while and it is great to go there on windy days or bad weather. You can walk the 350 meters to the end and be in awe of force of the waves. When the waves crash into the structure at the end, be prepared to get wet as the water crashes upwards between the floor boards. An interesting view for sure, but even more fun when it happens to other people! *info from Wikipedia.