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On Bruges
... actually happened.
Factual aside:
We drank a lot of Belgian beer and spent a lot of time meandering through mesmerizing little alleys, pondering picturesque yet sluggish windmills, gazing pensively down murkily reflective canals and barging through busy plazas teeming with looming Dutch day trippers and skeptical French people shopping doggedly for good bargains on striped clothing, jaunty scarves and shiny new Flemish dildos.
All movie tourism aside, ...
Three Great Days
... behind at the frie stand. After the backpack panic, we found the chocolate. Don't worry - its just as good as everybody thinks it is. After chocolate, we started walking around - reluctantly. I just wanted to sit down on the street and eat chocolate. It turned out, walking around was the right move. We passed a phone store and Dad - finally - and got a phone. Nothing fancy, and the phones sole purpose in life is to connect mom and dad incase they can't find each other. For those of ...
The Grande Finale
... parked along a dike. Apparently the Belgian DeLorean Club was preparing for an exhibition in Brugge later today. One of the DeLoreans was equipped to look like the “Back to the Future” car.
We saw another Onze Lieve Vrouwe Kerk in Damme – beautiful but in a somewhat derelict condition. We rode on to Sluis, which is over the border in the Netherlands, and where we saw our ...
Chocolate, Fries and Beer!
... to Germany!
The next morning Lori and Casper saw us off at the train station and we headed to Belgium. . It was also market morning in Brugge today and the town square was filled with vendors selling, flowers, and all kinds of interesting food. We picked up ingredients for dinner and then we checked out a Salvador Dali gallery and a Picasso gallery, just for good measure. There were also some Matisse and Rodin pieces as well. We ...
Chocolate, beer and waffles, now THATS Easter!
... April
Day three was Easter Sunday and most of the tour group headed off on a day trip to Brussels. Only just over an hour away in the bus, we arrived in Brussels mid-morning. But I’m getting ahead of myself - on the way we stopped at the Atomium, which is a giant structure in the shape of an iron atom (. Built for the world fair in 1958 for the world fair, it doesn’t really do much now except you can catch a zip line ...