Another long weekend rolls around in the UK - time to take advantage of the 'extended' weekend break from work and explore another corner of Europe. Our destination - Brugge, Belgium. A city refered to as the Venice of the North, with it's cobbled stone alleyways, beautiful canals, medieval architecture and most importantly it's gastronomic feast of chocolate, beer, waffles, and mussels. If anything we planned to come home having covered the four key food groups. We started our trip on Saturday morning - early!!! Ange and I were up at 3.30am with our cab due to arrive at 4.30am to take us to Waterloo Station for our first journey on the Eurostar train. We were stressing a bit when our cab had not arrived by 4.45am - with noone answering the phone from where we
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