Karos Hotel Brugge

... bit bigger than Bruges and has a similar feel to it. Brussels has a nice centre square, streets full of restaurants, and a royal palace. <br>Each day we returned to Bruges and wandered around the city. The centre market square is beautiful at night- all little buildings in a row all lit up. It would look beautiful with snow I would imagine. We strolled along the canals and popped into little pubs for a drink and had a great time.

... here. "A church!" you say. I know I know you would think that i got my fill of churches in Italy and Spain however I have not been to the church that boasts to be the proud owners of a vile of Christ's actual blood! Yep you read correctly, they claim that they house the DNA and blood of Christ. Now, I'm no doctor, I gave that dream up a while ago, but I'm pretty sure that 2000 year old blood would have evaporated by now. But ...

... 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 ...

... is another cute little bar. So after we ate we went across the street and had a couple beers. We also saw our tour guide from earlier that day there.<br><br>The next day it was rainy but we walked around the city anyway. It was just too cute to not explore. We walked to the edge of town and saw the dutch windmills then walked back into town for some chocolate and went on a shopping ...

... in a medieval style. It is a beautiful town.<br><br>We went for a stroll to the Burg and the Markt, had a coffee and were amazed at all of the chocolate shops (we just looked in the windows) and clothing stores. <br><br> We went to a nearby restaurant and had a really ordinary meal that cost too much and decided that we probably couldn&#8217;t eat at restaurants every night that we were there.

... is a lift that stops part way up and a few stairs to the door, then a few stairs down inside. There was a standard 2-beds-pushed-together queen sized bed with separate duvets, a small table with 2 chairs, a tv and a huge bathroom. The room was spotlessly clean. I loved this hotel. Once we were planning the trip in earnest I looked at B&amp;Bs but we&#8217;re not used to staying in those and we like our privacy, so this was an ...

... tower for a beautiful view of the small city. Later, we visited the Chocolate Museum -my idea, of course. It was a detailed history of chocolate, and then at the end was a room displaying chocolate sculptures. Some were rather intricate, life-like renderings, made completely of an enormous block of chocolate. We of course bought some chocolate at the end. We had to scurry off to the train station to squeeze in a few hours of Brussels before the day was over.

... closer to a town. I pedalled on for about another 15 minutes and reached the small, very small town of Sluis. Never heard of it, WHO HAD??? Just as I arrived the clouds decided that they wanted to play games and start to rain. What does one do when it starts to rain in the middle of nowhere and your only form of transportaion was Bonny? Find the local pub!!! I lent Bonny up againts a fence post kinda feeling bad that I was leaving her to go eat. I sat outside of this pub and ...

... day! Our first stop of the morning was to get breakfast...so Pablo, being the planner of this trip...asked one of the locals where the best place to eat breakfast was...and we went in that direction. We stumbled upon the small bakery, and walked into a restaurant that only had four table. Three of the tables sat 2 or 3 people...and the fourth table probably sat about 20 people. Since we were such a big group, we naturally sat at the large table, and were in between two different ...