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Published: March 17th 2008
The Peeing Statue!
... we don't know what his real name is though!Did you know that Belgium has 500 different kinds of beer?? Trevor tried with all his might to sample them ... but the grand finale was ... 5 ... out of 500 ... that makes it a whopping 1%!
We had heard from EVERYONE we'd meet about a town in northern Belgium called Brugge. Apparentlly it is "the cutest, quaintest, most awesome and amazing place" we'd ever go ... so of course we set off to grab ourselves a slice of this perfection ... only to be sorely disappointed! Brugge certainlly was a quaint little town ... but it is tourist zone central and was really more of a place for young party kids than for two aging backpackers. Hahaha ... but really. It wasn't our thing. The town markets itself as an old midevil town ... but those of us who read our trusty Lonely Planet guides know that is untrue - it was rebuilt in the 19th century to reflect what it used to be in the 15th and 16th centuries. The highlight of the town was easily the Tintin Store - who knew Tintin was a Belgian!?! We also went to a chocolate museum, not really that
Brugge, Belgium
Cute Medevil fakeness galore! interesting, but they did give free chocolate at the end so we were game! And fyi, anything you've ever heard about Belgium chocolate is true - it's creamy and melt in your mouth delicious and is waaay overpriced! But of course we indulged!
The plan was to zoom from Brugge to Antwerpe to see our friend Ilse whom we met on our safari, but Ilse was on a ski vacation of her own, and we missed her. We didn't want to skip the visit all together, so we continued on our European conquest and planned to loop back around for our fabulous ski vacation in the alps. (All this random looping and zooming is made possible by our Eurail passes, a definite investment if you'd like to conquer Europe yourself!). When our paths finally did cross we had an awesome time visiting and relaxing and seeing some of the finer points of Belgium. We took turns cooking for eachother (we will never take balanced home cooked meals for granted again!), had a chance to go out with some of her friends and did a day trip to Brussels to see the peeing fountain and Belgiums most famous landmark, the
Atomium. It was quite impressive, definitelly ranks up there with the beer and chocolate! Another surprise came in the form of the Belgian waffle ... we were expecting to be blown away by mounds of strawberries and whip cream, but a 'real' Belgian waffle consists of dough. Just dough. And some icing sugar. Also, it isn't eaten in the morning like we North Americans dig into our Eggos, it is eaten in the mid afternoon as a snack with a good cup of coffee.
That would be the end of Belgium for us ... next stop Amsterdam ... to do things we'd get in biiiig trouble for in Canada! 😉
Happy Travels,
Trevor and Kristena
P.S. Thanks for all the private messages, keep them coming!!
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Adrian
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now I'm craving waffles and chocolate. and maybe some beer