Hotel Sabot d'Or Blankenberge

I slept really well last night at Johanna's place (yes, I promise to make entries -even if they're short- for past days/cities). Then this morning I took the bus under a light drizzle to the Ghent main train station. There I paid my 6.6 Euros for a round trip (weekend price) to Brugges (Brugge/Brujas), which I had heard so much about.

I had quite the positive attitude, even as the rain fell against my ...

... attention to detail.

Back on the road, we headed further north and crossed over the border in Luxembourg. We stopped briefly at some motorway services, but as we were running short for time we didn't get the chance to stop in Luxembourg city. Going through one village we did see a pretty cool house on top of an outcrop of rocks, which looked great all lit up, but it was hard to get a shot which did it justice.

After crossing over into Belgium we stopped for gas, then ...

... two. We decided to try them both. They sure do like their mayonaise in Belgium, and they have a ton of different sauces that go with the fries... the one on the right is the better one.
The next day we went to possibly the worst museum ever... the French Fry museum. Yes, an entire museum dedicated to the harvesting and frying of the potato. So bad but pretty hilarious, and of course you get french ...

... went for a wander around the Beguinage and the little streets of the city before stopping for lunch in a restaurant on the main square, which was really nice and served local traditional food which was really great.

We wanted to go up the clock-tower but the queue was far too long and we decided that we could go back another day during the week when there weren't so many tourists!

The Christmas market had just started in Bruges so we spent quite a while wandering ...

... started forming in the 12th century and although they devoted themselves to God and the Catholic Church they were not nuns and were able to marry and keep their property. They eventually changed their beliefs and became more of mystics and were eventually thought to be heretics and were condemned by the church. They have since greatly declined in numbers and the Beguinage in Brugge is no longer functional. It is beautiful though ...

... the bar that we had met during dinner at a local restaurant called de Hobbit.It was a tiny little place with little tables. Steve had ribs and I had lamb with feta cheese- delicious! We also met an older British couple at the bar that we sat and chatted with as well. They were very nice and had interesting stories about Europe. The man looked like he had time-warped out of the 70s or 80s and he looked so British to me, like from ...

... all through the city. It was gorgeous. After that we stopped in a church really fast to see Michelangelo's Madonna and Child then we went to the local brewery to take a tour and get a free beer, walked around the city then went to pick up Josh.

If anyone is ever in Bruges there is a little restaurant, The Hobbit, that has all you can eat ribs for pretty cheap and right across the ...

... the poster from that movie "Just My Luck" with Lindsay Lohan where her co-star is the most unlucky guy in the world and his umbrella is ripped to shreds mid thunderstorm. Anyway, I tried using the mangled shreds of an umbrella I had left to shield my semi-dry head, but that was a joke and I was instantly drenched. I would also like to point out the fact that the trash bins they have here in Middelburg have an opening ...

... a rest (why aren't bike seats more comfy) and rode the last 30mins home. That arvo i am sad to say we realised we had gotten quite burnt, as we were covered up it was only on our hands and our faces.  I look really quite ridiculous at the moment as i have a very noticable sunglasses mark, not very becoming. After heading out to have a few more beers in one of the lovely squares we grabbed some cheap pasta and headed back to the hostel.  That night ...

January 26 - January 29 Alight...I apologize to everyone for not updating this thing sooner, but I have had a million and one things to do and very little access to the internet. So let's see where I left off...I guess it was the interviews etc. So as I explained I had to go trekking all around Brussels going to interviews that I was not terribly interested in. All of the organizations were interesting, and I am sure under other circumstances I would have been ...