Pottes is a small belgian village which forms a part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celles,_Hainaut Celles]' entity. It is situated at the North of the Province of Hainaut, not so far from Flanders; Pottes is surrounded by flander's villages like Helchin, Espierres, Avelgem.
Pottes is a village so there is no difficulty to go round in it.
The church isn't at the geographic centre of the village because there were quarrels between two lords : Guermignies and Quesnoy and so the lord Guermignies has won and he built the church in is domain.The Lord quesnoy built a chapel in his castle.
There is lot of possibilities of walks in the surroundings of Pottes and you can do it by foot,by bike or by horse. Not far from Pottes you find the "Mont Saint-Aubert" and the "Mont de L'enclus"" that are touristies and offer good walks ( there is possibility to drink and eat there)
Pottes is a village so there is not a lot of restaurants but you can go and eat grillings and belgian food at the "Farm of the Ruisseau"( au petit marais 16) for not a big budget.
In the old days, there were more than 80 cafe at pottes but today there's only 4 cafe:
- The "Concorde"
- The "Maison du peuple"
- The "Pompe"
- The "Mairie"
Situated in the street of naverie at number 3, this small shelter can accept two or three people. It owns a beautiful garden and pond . It's very good if you want to pass quiet holydays.
Situated in "the street of the Patrouille", number 2,this shelter forms a part of the iding school of Pottes ( Quesnoy's riding school.
Rue d_fAnseroeul,number 46
Rue Leclercq,number 17
Pottes is the centre of main towns like Bruges, Brussels,Ghent, Lille, etc, so it's interesting to sleep there if you want to visit all these towns.
It exists two local celebrations called "fair"
-The first is " The small fair": it takes place on the Sunday which follows the Saint jeanin june and so it takes place at spring
-The second is " The big fair": it takes place in septembre at the same time as the fair of Tournai. It lasts 3 days.
There is also the agricultural fair which take place in the middle of septembre.
[http://www.wikitravel.org/fr/pottes Pottes in french]