Blogs from Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe - page 15

Absolutely loved it here - even if it is pretty touristy. The streets are cobble and there is a canal running through the centre of town. It was a great day trip. We did a river canal ride. ... read more

Well, well, well...after my birthday we moved onto Bruges (You may have noticed Smicy has gotten sick of doing blogs so you'll probably notice a decline in the quality of them, sorryyyy). Bruges is a small, medieval city. It consists of old medieval style buildings, chocolate stores, brewery tours and LOTS AND LOTS OF MUSEUMS...COUNTLESS MUSEUMS...which we only noticed when we were walking around. They have a potato museum, a lamp museum...why? Potatoes I can understand because they freakin' love potatoes and fries but lamps? Hmmmm. We were both getting pretty sniffly and cold filled by this point so we spent most of our time in Bruges resting up and wandering around slowly haha. Bruges is super small though so it didn't require much of our energy. The highlight of Bruges was going to The Chocolate ... read more

Thursday 28th August (Day 3) Paris - Bruges As our time in Paris drew to a close, we still managed to have a relaxing morning before checking out of the hotel and making our way to the train station, where we waited for our train to Bruges, Belgium. We couldn’t find a direct train (well, maybe there is one but it was probably too expensive for us), so we had a train change in Brussels, which is a large station with loads of facilities, so it was really easy. It took several hours to get to Bruges, but we arrived safely and set off on a walk to our hotel. We immediately noticed that the whole town has cobblestone streets and footpaths. There is an inner ring to the town, and all the tourists stay in ... read more

The bad news is that the museums are closed on Mondays, the good news is that everything else was open and humming. Very tired from a full day of walking. More pics than I can load, so here they are...... read more

Started the morning by getting up at the unholy hour of 6 am (a regular feature of the trip) and going to meet the bus at Cleopatra's Needle. Seeing as I can't actually lift my bag onto my shoulders without assistance I am very, very glad that we got a taxi there. The Needle was suprisingly beautiful at sun rise, backlit by a red sun rising from misty buildings into a pink sky. I didn't want to leave my family at all but after a lot of hugging I got onto the bus and found a seat near to a Kiwi called Frances, a Brit called James and a German called Katja. We got to Bruges mid afternoon and went on a bike tour, which was an extra but very worth it; the highlght was the ... read more