Leonardo Hotel Brugge

... place where we enjoyed relaxing at night.<br>The highlights for me were the pubs and beer cafes we found thanks to the map where I attempted to try as many different beers as possible. After 3 days I had managed quite a few.The pubs included tiny local bars hidden in alleyways and pubs boasting the number of beersthey had available. One in particular held the guinness record a few years ago at around 2000 types but today ...

In Brugge...that's like a movie title and everything, but there I was actually In Brugge. It is as beautiful and magical as everyone says it is. It's as if Disneyland bought a city, tore it down, and put this in its place. There are canals, and swans that swim in them. There are large medieval buildings that are lit at night and tons of shops filled with sweets and handmade lace. There are men who drive horse drawn carriages and ...

... 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 ...

So, We got up and caught a train to Bruges. As we walked towards our hostel I noticed that everything was so nice and so clean. Then we made it to the fountains. I fell in love then. The houses and buildings are so cute. They are side to side with neat little rooftops. The streets were stone and curvy. It was just so nice. <br><br>When we got to our hostel the guy working was by far the ...

... br><br>When I finally got back to Bruges, I went directly to Market Square and returned the bike, even though it was only about 5:30 pm. There was no way I was putting my bum on that seat any longer than I had to. <br><br>My first order of business was to get some food. So I got some french fries, or &#8220;Belgian&#8221; fries as the guy at the stand corrected me. I got them with mayonnaise again and I&#8217;m kind of starting to like them that way. <br><br>I sat on ...

* Arrived at hostel 1pm.<br>* Had fries. (Created in Belgium, not France).<br>* Had beer chosen from a menu of over 400.<br>* Had beer after dinner at our hostel.<br>* Sleep.<br>* Attended brewery tour.<br>* Attended chocolate museum.<br>* Had beer in a bar with over 300 to choose.<br>* Sleep.<br>* Leave hostel.<br>* Chris had waffle ...

... brooka"... and they also spell it randomly as Brugge, Bruges, or Bruge... meh... got there eventually anyways! - At the B&amp;B, we were greeted by Svitlana the hostess... she was full of energy and recommended we go on the tour that she had created herself. Our room was on the second level and we had to catch the lift, which was kinda small but she got us both in with a big push on my backpack. The lift also was missing doors, so you ...

... would have been even scarier. We rode paths to several windmills. Got pictures of all of them of course. We then rode down the side of a large canal to the village of Damme where we had a coffee and browsed their market. A very tiny town/village. As we biked back, we stopped an had a picnic lunch along the canal. Didn't see any eel fisherman in the canals as advertised in guide books though. But that was ok. It was a ...