Well, we’ve spent the past couple days in Bruges, and it’s a wonderful city. It’s small enough to walk the entire center (only about a mile wide, and about 2 miles long), but packed with history. We took a canal boat ride, which while a touristy thing to do, was a lot of fun. We also climbed the 366 steps to the top of the belfry of the Halles (the historic town hall & treasury building in the Markt, or central square). We visited a few of the large churches and cathedrals, and visited one of the galleries that housed a lot of historic artifacts and paintings from Bruges (no photos allowed, drats). Last night Kelly and I had a great night at ‘beer heaven’, ‘t Brugs Beertje (somewhere around 300 Belgian beers, 6 on tap, the rest in bottles). We’d stopped in there a couple times already, but after dinner we went there and stayed longer than we thought we would, talking to a local guy named Justin who’s studying to teach primary school (elementary). Had a blast. And a lot of beers. 🙂
Bruges is beautiful, and old, and the people are friendly and the whole place is very relaxing. I wish I could spend another day or two here, but today we’re off to Brussels. In fact, time to finish packing and get us to the train station!
As before, photos are in the gallery, though I’m about a day behind… it takes a while to upload them from the wifi at the hotel and I’m only uploading them once in a while. Hope to get caught up shortly.