Charlie Rockets Brugge

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 Bruges... at last we decided to take the train that is always more comfortable... Nice country, but it is terrible for the Guillermo's allergy (we don't know why...)!

Megg and I arrived in icy Bruges in the arvo, and after finding our hostel went for a walk to see the sites. It's kind of like Cesky Krumlov in that it’s pretty small and there isn’t actually much to do apart from admire the ancient buildings and canals. We saw the 'Belfry Tower’ in the main Markt square, but it was a rip-off to walk up the 300 and something stairs (I’m not paying €8 unless there is a lift!), so we just looked at it. There are about a million cho...

Day 4: Well, today I slept in too late, due to my being in a hotel. I ended up waking up a little before 12:00, blah. I rushed my ass to the train and got a cheapo ticket to Brugges, Belgium; the only city recommended by Rick Steves to visit in Belgium, which I highly disagree with. He wrote far too much about France. If you really want to visit France that bad, then buy the damn France book; any ways, I digress. Since I woke up so late, I ended up arriving in Bruges (Brugges in Flemish) at a...

Day 5: I actually got up early enough today to do everything I wanted to do! (almost). I woke up to a snow blizzard, and it's been snowing/sunny on and off all day today. Crazy ass Belgian weather. I started off by climbing up to the top of the Belfry here, which gave an awesome view of the city and surrounding areas. At 88 meters high, it was good hike, but well worth it. I was lucky enough to get up to the top to hear a song from the bells; the mechanism for keeping time and playing songs i...

Brugge: 29 April-2 May

Brugge: Belgium for beer! Over 780 beers are brewed in Belgium and that doesn't include the 'seasonal' beers brewed every year. Unfortunately having only three nights there we didn't get to try all 780! The beers we did try were of the best quality with great flavor. Some advice to the Tooheys New and Budweiser makers: take a page out of the Belgium Brewers' guide book and add some flavor to you beers!

When we weren't enjoying fine boutique beers we spent ...

We decided at the last minute to cut one night out of our stay in Colonge, and head to Brugge, Belgium for one night before Colonge. Since we booked our hotel the night before, we didn't have much of a choice. We ended up booking a hostel mentioned in our Rick Steves book. I am going to email him and tell him to take this place out of his book! It was creepy! It was located at the top of a bar, like many hostels are-- not a problem, we thought. You check in at the bar area, and then go throug...

Well today started off like any other day for me--you know, except that I got up 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 checks people out of the hostel in the morning didnt show up till 7.30--we didnt get to Brugge till around 2 in the afternoon. Yet this did afford us a chance t...

Okay, so today was definally a top 5 day when it come to having a great time. I woke up today with a game plan in mind. I was going to rent a bike and peddal to a little town about 30 minutes outside of Brugge. I heard through the grape vine that it had a small white sand beach and I have been craving this for such a long time now. I got up early and went down to the local bike rental shop and paid my 10 euros for my bike. When he first brought it out I thought he was joking. He wanted me to ...

I have to thank everyone that has sent comments about my last blog about Bonny and our escapades. It was a ton of fun and Iīm glad everyone at home got just as much entertainment out of it as I did. In the excitment about writing about Bonny I hadnīt mentioned anything about Bruge and what I did there. I know for a fact that this one wonīt be nearly as entertaining but I still saw some really cool things. I first have to say that Bruge is a beautiful city and I was really glad that I made the...