Brugge
Travel Blogs from Brugge, Belgium
In Brugge
... Flemish village in the Flanders section of Belgium. While we were here we learned that the Belgium actually introduced "French" fries, not the French. In Brugge, they actually have a "Fries" museum. Every restaurant sells fries as a separate ...
The Sun Came Out in Belgium
... ok... Tomorrow I'll try and brave the weather (here's hoping for some more sunshine) around Gent. My last full day in Belgium, since on Monday I take a train out to Dusseldorf, to spend my last night in Germany and Europe with my first hosts. ...
a note before i leave....
Yes, well, to save any confusion, i just went for a day (rather a few hours trip) to Oostende... then back to Bruges, where i spent my last day meandering the cobblestones and daydreaming.... funnily enough one thing i did notice about this place is the ...
I made a new friend at the oddest place - ...
... walked by and I asked her to take a picture for me. Next thing you know, she ditches her travelmates and accompanies me to Belgium! Liesje [lee-sheeah] is an easy-going, easy-to-get-along-with, spontaneous (as you may have guessed) girl from Nova ...
Pretty Bruges
... a private room and bathroom. once checked in we hit the cobbled streets of Bruges, a medievil city and top tourist destination in Belgium. There are Chololates shops everywhere. We did a tuour of a Brewery which is the only one in Bruges, there used to ...
Brugge....(just like venice, only different)
... peeing statue) and trying free samples of belgian chocolate (thas how you do it when you are a broke traveler)...we arrived in Brugge and instantly we knew it would be a very cool town...much smaller and quieter, and surrounded by various canals, it was ...
Day 4
... all museums and such, but its all good. This city is great, so varied. There are three major languages spoken in Belgium; French, German, and Flemish. And then of course, there are the combinations of all three languages being used here and there. I ...
Allergy Hell
"If I'd grown up on a farm and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't, so it doesn't." - In Bruges lol, one of the more awesome quotes from the movie In Bruges. If you like dark comedy, I completely reccomend it. It's hilarious. ...
7. In Bruges
... and told us the history of Bruges, key Flemish words we might want to use, and a bit of Belgian history. I didn't know Belgium is split along linguistic lines! They're also the country that has the current world record for longest period without a working ...
Small World
Steve and Margaret decide to have a lazy day, so I resurrected my Brugge plans. Quick Google search and I discover that parking at the train station is only 3.5€ for the whole day and a free bus to the centre thrown in. Gotta say I am not that ...
Medieval Squares, Medieval Tour Groups
Home stretch! I could see the finish line from here. My heart drooped a little when I reached Bruges, knowing this colorful tourist destination was my last stop in mainland Europe before I headed for two final nights in England. My trip felt ...
Brugge,Bicycles & Big Blues
... only a memory and this decline lasted several centuries In the middle of the 1800's Brugge was the poorest city in Belgium. The 20th century, however, brought new life. The city was discovered by the international tourism and the ...
A day and 10 different beers in Brugge
... in sync with the time zone (or our watches as we found out later) we were up at 6.30am and ready to go by 7.30am, Brugge wasn't though and everything was still closed until after 10am. We (actually I) was on a mission to find waffles, we found a nice ...
French Fries and Wafels
I heard mixed reveiws about Brugge.. But everyone looks for something different in tourism. Although there were a lot of American tour groups and older people.. There was their fair share of young people to thanks the World Cup... Most I encountered ...
Brugges
Aujourd'hui était enfin arrivé. J'ai attendu cela depuis longtemps. Nous sommes allés à Bruges d'aujourd'hui pour la journée. Nous sommes partis très tôt le matin et revient tard. Sur le premier train, il y a eu un retard et un problème. Donc ...
Visit to Brugge
... tempting to buy almost every glass but I only bought one for the cherry flavoured beer (Kriek). I also discovered that Belgium not only offers cherry, raspberry and lemon flavoured beer but I also found strawberry, blueberry, mango and passion ...
Off to Brugge!
... goat cheese, tomato and ham sandwiches and I had an espresso. Caught the Thalys train to Brussels and transfered from there to Brugge. The second train was great because we had the whole car to ourselves! Yay for first class! We had troubles though ...
Brugge
Brugge is often called the "Venice of the North" because of it's canals and its heritage listed old-town. It also has great mussels. We didn't make it onto the canals (although we walked around enough of them), but we did manage to have ...
Drink Belgium Beer, Pay the next day.
... to. So if you are on a budget, bring a sack lunch with you. We stopped at a Brasserie (surprisingly most everyone in Brussels/Brugge Speaks French, English, or Dutch) and decided to have a nice lunch. They wouldn't serve us water and there was a definite ...
Eurostar to Brugge
Rainy New Years Day made it easy to camp in my room at the Megaro and squander an afternoon reading and recouping. A whiskey at the bar, chatting with the Bulgarian bartender and Spanish waitress and a supper of beef carpaccio and squid starters and a ...
The Belfry, Lace, Beer, Chocolate & a Midget...
Hi everyone My trip to Bruges was fabulous. My hotel room looked right at the belfry and was very comfortable (and huge compared to the room in Paris!). I didn't see any bodies being thrown from the tower but I did see one midget. For anyone that hasn't ...
Waffles, yanks, and an early night
... . I cant say no to a good storm, especially when im in bed and but a short wink away from a seriously deep sleep. Belgium has treated me well, and tomorrow, the adventure would continue some short distance north to the amazing Netherlands. Let the good ...
One more Beer Please
Sadly I leave this place tomorrow. It is a good thing though. My cravings for chocolate, cherry beer and potato and cheese croquettes would get me into WAY too much trouble eventually. I still have one more meal that I will go enjoy after this ...
A half day in Brugge
... at 6:30 [that`s right, in the morning) in London--we had planned to get out really early to take an early train to Brugge, Belgium--but due to a series of complications, such as that our Eurail pass doesnt cover trains to the continent, and the chick that ...

