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Hotel Ter Kade Ostende

Visserskaai 49 Ostende, West Flanders, 8400, Belgium

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Final Morning and Final Thoughts

A travel blog entry by emfletche

... cabs are unfortunately metered to how long the trip takes, and not by the distance travelled) and already we are at £6 and we have only travelled the distance equivalent of one end of Markt Square to the other… We fling the already accrued fare at the disgruntled taxi driver, and head for our sixth train station and fourth train of the day…

Bruges was an amazing ...

Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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Another 2:30am, 4:30am and 6:30am alarm call before the official getting up time of 8:30. Much the same as the morning before we have breakfast, watch a bit of children’s TV in German (we do have English channels but this is so much more educational…) and prepare for the day ahead. We had slightly encroached on today’s itinerary yesterday during our aimless rambling but we headed back out towards Djiver and Gruuthouse.

N.B. It may seem ...

Day 2 – the best laid plans….

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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... mmm, tasty!) and a chocolate-sauce soaked waffle before everything is packed away. Once again, our plans are foiled, so there is only one thing to do…. Drink beer.

We head off in no particular direction. We find the second Christmas market at Simon Stevin plein – also closing for the night. Then a little alleyway and a pub sign catches my eye…

Cafe‘t Brugs Beertje was definitely on my list of TA ...

Road trippin, driving to London!

A travel blog entry by jev086

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So they have this tunnel that leads you from France to England. They drive on the right in France and on the left in England. I had to see how this whole thing works. Turns out there is a train that you drive on, park the car, and let the train shuttle you under the English Channel to the other side. Pretty cool, quite claustrophobic! But on the way we found Brugge, Belgium. This was a nice town to grab a bite to eat. Check it ...

In Bruges

A travel blog entry by julietam

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... to your co-workers, hey after work today, want to grab a fatty?

On Sunday the streets were not as crowded, probably because most of the shops were closed. I woke up early to see the Groeninge Museum. The museum has a fantastic collection of Flemish “primitives”; so called because they lack some of the better techniques of their contemporaries in Renaissance Italy. In general, the paintings lack perspective and still use oil on wood rather than canvas. But ...

This hotel was formerly known as: Hotel Ter Kase