Erasmus Hotel Ghent

... other Churches.

I did have a couple of moments with brief drizzles, but overall I had some beautiful, sunny weather and I enjoyed a few hours of walking around Brugges (while eating a delicious waffle for part of it), before returning on the 25 minute train back to Ghent.

Which is where I am now, and I'll go eat at a friend of Johanna's house for dinner tonight. It is, by the way, definitely ...

... and pasta dish with tomato sauce, mushrooms, celery, onion, garlic, etc. Fantastic and delicious. Afterwards, we met up with a few (mainly local) CSers at a bar near her house, where we played some board games and "werewolf" which wasn't too bad. Most of them were quite friendly and I had a nice time.

We came home not too late, as I was to go to Brugges the next day.

... cuisine before (nor was I really aware that they had a particular style of cooking) but I have to say it was one of the tastiest meals I've ever eaten - I was impressed! I had a glass of Sangria to go with it too, and it was sooo good!

We spent the rest of the last evening of the rally in the bar with the others, having a few drinks and a good time. It was a late night too - not getting back til gone 3am! Overall it was a great time, we met some great people and had lots of fun.

Brugge may be a fairy tale city, but the thing they don't tell you is that the whole place smells like french fries! The Flemish like to fry everything from meat to fries to waffles...twice. When we arrived in town, we had JUST missed the beer festival (of course) that had taken place all weekend long. So we did the next best thing, and went to a pub that serves the most Belgian beer. 't Brugge was ...

I saw the film "In Bruges" when it came out at the cinema a couple of years ago, and thought it looked like a beautiful city. So when Annabelle (the teacher in charge of me at school, and a good friend) suggested going for the day, Erin and I jumped at the chance.
The advantage of living so close to the Belgian border is that almost everywhere in Belgium is not much more than an hour away, and so we have no excuse not to see a lot of it!

We arrived in Bruges around 11.30 ...

Washington: Lehet cigizni! Kinaiak puszikat dobalnak az Eszternek.
Vegas: A szimpi mokus repulorol Donald elvisz a szallodaba.Jo beszelgetes erdekes ember.
E: hagyjuk annyit maszni amennyit csak lehet a repulest jol birja de a vegen bog.Donald irto turelmesen birja mellettunk.

... le couchsurfing.

Finalement, nous avons deniche un B&B - du genre pas cher avec du VRAI bacon **--sur une peniche dans le port !! Le bateau appartient a Erica et son mari qui ont decide de se partir un petit gite voila quelques mois. Le plus cool cest quen plus dun B&B cest aussi leur leur maison avec laquelle ils peuvent ...

... snails as you would shrimp, because the taste is similar; well sort of....I don't think I'd be making sweet and sour snails instead of sweet and sour shrimp anytime soon, or using it for a Chinese spicy shrimp recepie, but still it's good. After eatting my escargot, I walked around some more streets, this time leaving the outskirts of touristy centre ville and into less touristy centre ville. I could tell that I was leaving the touristy part of town ...

... the way top of the castle and looking down on the town and pretending to shoot arrows out of the small slit windows. It was a fantastic place to take the girls. We wandered along the water and eventually Eliza fells asleep in the stroller. Abigail and I took a walk and found a nice restaurant, The Crypte Grille, which was situated right in the corner near a big bridge with a great view of all of the activity. It had outdoor seating, which meant Eliza could stay asleep in the ...

... festival meetings somewhere in town and they were both attending, we didnt notice any change of crowd in the city though but we learned about Laura's choice then! We ended up in a cafe having a drink and playing a dice game. I tried to contact Eske as well but didnt get news. Later finally we got in touch with Laura and went for another drink before heading back to Bas to sleep. ------------------ November 5 Its been another calm day and ...