Ibis Brugge

... more like 2500. My favourite beers were de Garre (local speciality sold exclusively at the pub of the same name - Dark flavourful and quite strong), Leffe, Westmalle Trappist, Bruges zot and bok. Whitney even gave in and sipped a few of my beers until we found one she liked!! It was a Raspberry fruity beer that was quite sweet.<br>Other than beer, we had to indulge in the other Belgian standards: Waffles, chocolate ...

... who take them! This city was similar to Ghent but far more touristy.<br><br>So, I have waited until now, this very moment to discuss my own personal highlight from Holland. To some its the pot in Amsterdam, to others it is the Red Light Districts in the city, to me it is the french fry stands strewn about all the cities here. This is the culmination of all of the fry stands. In Brugge there is an actual fry museum. Yes for 5 ...

... a really really bad stomach ache from them &#8211; knives stabbing me type pain. So that kinda killed the night unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t sure if I was going to start feeling sick or what, so Megg and I headed back to Bruges (don&#8217;t worry I was fine though!). Note to self DON&#8217;T EAT BRUSSELS MUSSELS.<br><br>Jac and Bec came to Bruges for the day, so we met them for breakfast (I had a pancake!) before we headed off to our final backpacking destination - Paris!

... more (what else would we do?) we sat down at Bocca, an Italian restaurant that serves pasta in takeout Chinese container lookalikes. I admit, I was skeptical at first, but it was some of the best 5 euros I have ever spent &#8211; the homemade sauce was absolutely delicious! We liked it so much that we are planning to write to Europe on a Budget and recommend it. Seriously, it was that good. <br><br>To cap off our evening in Bruges, we went and got ...

... person we had met. He was very helpful, told us where all the important things were and told us where to get the best fries and with the best sauce. Stoofvlees. Like a beef stew on top of fries. It was delicious! Great recommendation! We at these a couple times while we were in bruges. <br><br>So, off to explore this beautiful city. We first took a canal tour. There are canals ...

... rooftop deck overlooking production that was truly &#8220;beer with a view.&#8221; to borrow a phrase. The beer was tasty, too.<br><br>We finished off the day with our last Belgian dinner, more varieties of Belgian beers, all put to a soundtrack provided by a Belgian high school band just off the main square. They played all kinds of tunes, but we all perked up for things to come when they played a tune about the Hofbrau Haus.<br><br>But first, back to Paris, France baby!<br ...

... priority number one was to get my hands on an elusive VAMA VECHE shirt. But first, Anthony and Carlie from Toronto, along with Gary and I, decided to be tourists and go see some touristy things. Unfortunately Gary somehow got lost in the masses and we didn&#8217;t end up hanging out with him. The three of us carried on and went to the Chocolate museum and tried a Belgian waffle. Belgian chocolate and waffles, gooooood.<br><br> Then I went back ...

... the sounds of war and screaming in the war the entire time. It was very informative and was presented as a story with audio, pictures and video so people unfamiliar or very familiar with war all had something to gain from the experience. Next, the tour went to the country sides and showed us the ruts in the land, that was once completely flat and now has m***********s in the ground from land mines from the Germans. The last ...

Our record shortest stop in a country!!! We caught the Eurostar from London, got off in Brussells and caught the train to Brugge for a few hours before continuing to Paris. Brugge is a very pretty touristy town but we loved it! rained the whole time but was still pretty with its old style buldings, canals and flower pots... the markets were open in the centre of the village - they had the most amazing fresh flowers as well as ...