Brugge
Travel Blogs from Brugge, Belgium
From Brugge to Haarlem
... , blood and mayhem ensue. In the 14th century Bruges was an economic giant; one of the world's largest cities. Bruges - Brugge in Flemish - acted as a middleman port for northern and southern Europe. Then the harbour silted up and the economy went into ...
Mmm. Chocolate
... budget day trips in the UK and weekend trips to Europe. Nicely our training weekend was in the lovely city of Bruges. (or Brugge depending on who you ask).. Bruges is a sweet old town, with a beautiful main square, cobblestone streets, a canal and ...
Romantic Brugge
... who is an architectural engineer and his funky design comes across in all aspects of the house. The delicious Belgium breakfast included a huge breadbasket with a variety of Belgium bread. Brugge was a sensorial overload and a gastronomic ...
Fries, Beer, Chocolate & Waffles!!
... .. So after gathering our packs again, we headed to the train station to catch the train to Brugge, a once World Heritage listed city in Belgium. We eventually arrived after a 5 hour, 1 change over journey, then caught the bus to our ...
beer, waffles and chocolate
... skating and beer drinking in the town square, lots of old buildings. Very strange not knowing a word of Flemish..... suddenly we were in Belgium. Stayed in a lovely place run by a sweet young couple. Put on a fabulous breakfast set us up for the day. Had ...
Stalking Svitlana?
... explain how chocolate is made and even get to taste one.. yeehaa.. 1 chocolate.. =P I'm yet to decide if I'm a fan of Belgium chocolate though as I found that one to be too sweet for my liking, once again.. So after the Chocolate ...
Belgium, mmmmmm chocolates
... had all gone home. Realising there was not much more here, we set off to riding towards the coast and then onto Belgium. Upon arriving in the Delta area of The Netherlands, we encountered the strongest headwinds that we have ever cycled into. This day ...
La pluie de Bruges
Je pensais m ennuyer pour ma derniere journee a Bruxelles mais ce fut tout le contraire. Apres avoir passe quelques minutes a me faire bronzer au soleil de la Grand Place (on dit que c est la plus belle "place centrale" du monde!) Je suis alle boire une ...
The Brother, the Nephew, and the Girls from Gent
... themselves lucky that Auntie does not live in Belgium: she would visit every month! It looked as if we would not see 'the Girls from Ghent': Evelyn and Iratxe. They were on a holiday when we were in Belgium. We managed anyway. Cosy evening in ...
Hoegaarden, yummmmm
... , a windmill and the Cross Gate. Had my first real solid food since having my tongue pierced washed down with a few of the awesome Belgium beers. My favourite beer in the world is Hoegaarden, which comes from here so I am in heaven. I also visited the ...
War History Time!
... the south. It almost looks like a city from a pop-up book. We arrived around dinner time to Brugge and I had my first taste of a pot of Belgium muscles on the market square and fruit beer. It was called Kreik cherry beer that tasted like ...
Brugge
... breakfast by 12pm let alone 10am! A visit to Bruges would not be complete until you have bought about a tonne of their Belgium chocolate. Just walking into one of their shops is hypnotic enough. Some places are making the chocolates right in front of ...
Goodbye Brugse Zot!
... fries in the town square with Andolouse sauce (sweet and spicy, mayonnaise based sauce: very yummy). It was a fitting and unhealthy send off to a city that I thoroughly enjoyed living in for two months. Goodbye Brugge, hopefully I will see you ...
Wooooah I'm a working class man!
... and nice etc. Most of the other customers just come in and give me useful advice about the city and living in Belgium in general. Something I've noticed about the Belgians is that they are an extremely proud nation of people who believe that their ...
Here comes the sun...
Ahhh it is spring time and the words of so many songs come to mind. So many songs that I didn't understand the significance of until now. Here comes the Sun by the Beatles is a great example. I didn't (and I don't think other Aussie do either) appreciate ...
Flatland Belgium
This week has been completely different to the last in Brugge. I have met heaps of cool people and I have finally settled into the apartment! In the apartment I also have my own room now! Even though it has four beds in the room, there is no one else ...
Beautiful Belgium
... is fantastic! Anyone that knows me well, knows that I love the pub at home called "the Belgian Beer Café". Now am I inside Belgium and nothing can stop me! The beers are something special and if you just chugged them down like people at home, you would ...
Bruges
... do Egypt, African Safaris, etc. This place is THE BOMB. It's a MUST see if you are ever anywhere near Belgium. It's a medieval city that has the greatest history, chocolate, people, weather, etc. I absolutely loved it. They ...
The historic city of Bruges.....
... proceeded to some of the local historic sites of Bruges, including local Churches and of course visits to the three clichés of Belgium - Lace, Chocolate and Beer. The canal boat tours were operating even at that early hour, which I thought was a ...
Brugge, beautiful Brugge
... were riding so slowly). We had packed a picnic lunch of baguette's salami olives and Camembert cheese, oh and of course some Belgium chocolates. On the way home we stopped at a little village Called Damme, it was lovely too, right on a canal, ...
In Brugge
... . Having been surrounded by the French, who one way or another, fit various stereotypes perfectly.. Within minutes of being in Belgium, we both discovered that Belgian people are really friendly and keen to help.. A theme that continued throughout. Also, ...
Belgium
We traveled there from Paris. Our aims were to go to Bruges to stay a couple of days there. We took the chance to visit Brussels while we were looking for a Tintin's comic to buy and deciding which transport was the most adequate to go from Brussels to ...
Belgium, take 2
This weekend we met some friends of Mike's at their house near Brussels, Belgium. We've already been to Brussels (and didn't love it), but I can't tell you how great it was to sleep in a home and have someone cook food for us...we're getting ...
Brugge, First Day (Nathan)
... Michelangelo, though I didn't really see what was so special about it compared with the other statues I'd seen in churches already. Brugge itself is a nice old town, very well-preserved, as our guidebook stated. All the streets are narrow, cobblestone and ...
Bruges by numbers
... 's "New Frontier," (incongruously) Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer in the City" and The Carpenters' "Close to You." Pax Americana.] Belgium is home to roughly 10-million people, with the Dutch-speaking Flemish mainly in the north and the French-speaking ...
Holy Blood and Hoppy Beers in Brugge
... learned in Brugge: first we complained about the heat in Spain and got freezing rain in Northern Europe. Then we complained about the rain and got record heat again in Belgium. No more complaining. Will post about Brussels tomorrow. Tot ziens! ...
Biking in Bruges
... of allotments with matching sheds. The Dunkirk turnoff made us realise again how far away Dick’s father is buried. We were then into Belgium and into a long traffic jam with about 20 km to go!! There were poppies at the side of the road but they had ...

