Hotel Cordoeanier Brugge

... s nickname "Venice of the north". It is full of little canals and narrow streets, like some of the other old towns we have seen but this one had a character and vibe that we really understood.Chocolate, love it (we bought a box and ate it in a day). Waffles, love them. Beer, Steve loves it. Fries, all good (we tried two different kinds- one with "special sauce" which turned out to be mayo, curry ketchup and onions, and one with ...

... I'm wrong. Who knows? (Probably historians, or doctors shh.) <br><br>That's it, I got on a train and headed back to Amsterdam for the night. It was a whirlwind trip through Belgium but so has the rest of this trip so why would this be any different. <br><br>Oh I did stop in Antwerp and had a Belgian waffle. I had three bites and threw it away it was so sweet. But I'm sure everyone else would love it. <br><br>Update soon!<br><br>Dina

... 8211; &#8216;Mannekin ****&#8217; I think his name is (everyone told me the statue was going to be smaller than I thought, so I thought it was going to be small.. but not that small?!) So Megg and I were wondering what the hell we were going to do for the rest of the day (we aren&#8217;t exactly 100% motivated to look at stuff anymore..) when Megg whacked me and yells &#8216;JAC!&#8217;. Yep, a familiar face &#8211; Megg bumped into her old housemate Jac, and ...

... waffles really were great), and went to De Halve Mann, the only brewery still working in Bruges. After a tour of the brewery, which led me to reminisce about me being Dad&#8217;s underage basement-beer-brewing apprentice, we were entitled to a free sample of the blond beer brewed on-site.<br><br>After our tasty beverage, we continued our tour of Bruges. There are a ridiculous amount of lace and chocolate shops around, and we were lucky enough to ...

... After a lazy night at the Inn and another wonderful breakfast, we shouldered our packs and took another jaunt through the city. We decided to burn a little more time at the brewery and after a couple beers got back to the train and started to head home. Unfortunately, those last beers caused us to miss the early trains to Germany and that is why we got back to Berlin so late. But there are worse places to be stranded than in Belgium.<br><br>-AF

... for beer and the corresponding glasses...because every beer in Belgium has a specific glass that you are supposed to drink it from. We spent as much time as we could in Bruges before we had to head back to Brussels to catch our plane and we still needed more time in Brussels to meet up with a friend from Clemson. I was sad to leave Bruges. It was definitely an amazing place to visit. <br>

... hotel we tried to find a place to have a final drink but nothing was open. It was only 11:00 but we were away from the city centre. So we went back to the room and watched part of another terrible American movie subtitled in Dutch (Whoopi Goldberg is a basketball coach?) and congratulated ourselves on having such a wonderful trip so far.<br><br>Tomorrow &#8211; Last day in Bruges so we bike to the coast

... we did met a young Dutch couple in a small van - most people we met are retired in big ol' vans which we could park 2 of ours in - had a drink with them in the evening, sitting in, pretty much a car park. We then drove into Belgium to find a campervan showroom but we were scared shitless by the trams, one minute they're in their own lane, next minute the road and tram rails link and your racing along with a tram up your ****, the road signs and ...