For many motorists, Zandstraat is an inconspicuous village through which you pass, from or to Philippine. Few people know that the water from the Braakman and Sassche Gat lapped against the current Zandstraat until the nineteenth century. You can still see that just after the start of the walk. The lands on the right of the road to Philippine are higher than those on the left. The street originated at the separation of the higher and lower grounds, where the Sassche Gat started to silt up. The oldest farm from 1852, at house number 70, is still there.

Zandstraat was an agricultural community, including a blacksmith shop from 1910, a wagon construction company and a harness maker / leather worker. The craftsmen have disappeared; farming is still going on. Immediately outside Zandstraat you see (flowering) potatoes on the right. Beyond the orchard, turn left into Trappistenstraat, it is still all about living and working in the countryside.

The grain drops its cups, then you know it's almost harvest time. You may see the imposing combines driving in the field to thresh grain. These can be recognized from afar by the dust cloud behind them. After the harvest, green manure is often sown to keep the soil fertile.

Now no longer visible in the landscape, but nice to know: on the corner with the Kapellestraat, at junction 62, there were field kilns where bricks were baked in the 1930s. In Zandstraat itself, various houses can be designated that were built with the slightly darker stones from this brickyard.

The Korteweg turns into an unpaved path. If you don't want to go through the tall grass, you can also walk on the Driekwartweg to the left of the dike towards junction 61. You can also take a break. On top of the dike is a bench with a view of the farmland, the canal and the railway.

Zandstraat had a station on the Ghent-Terneuzen railway line until 1939 and freight trains still pass by daily. After the railway there is a lovely gravel path along the Sint Albertdijk. Note the stairs halfway up. Be sure to climb this, because you will end up in bunkers with gun holes, made by the German troops in World War II.

At the end of Eugeniaweg, at Driekwartweg, is the old nicotine factory, founded in 1912 by the Frenchman Gaston Decoop. When mobilization is announced in 1914, Decoop must also report. The nicotine factory is no longer operational, but a flax factory was established.

The last part of the route goes under the electricity wires, back over the railway along the hamlet of Vaatje and, via junctions 64 and 63, over the flowery Van Remoortereweg. Just back to the De Straete community center and you're around.