Mirabel Hotel Brugge

... English detective show or something. We had a great night out and ran back to the hostel in the rain.<br>We walked all around the town and saw little parks and local areas to the north of the town where people actually live. Around town there are heaps of chocolate shops and even a TinTin shop! The clothing stores are all fancy and there are mouth-watering pink-decorated candy stores.<br>Our visit to Ghent was nice too. It is ...

... you can find out all you needed and wanted to know about the history of the french fry and how to properly execute the cooking of said fry. I think i took more pictures of this than of anything else in Brugge.<br><br>Fun fact: We Americans call it a French Fry because Belgian soldiers showed American soldiers how to make them in the war and they were speaking French, and it just stuck.<br><br>There is a church that I visited ...

... around a bit more and got lunch at a cheap Italian restaurant. We were cold and freezing and cold and sick of sightseeing, so we went back to the hostel for an afternoon nap &#8211; we really miss siestas! Our evening was pretty quiet too &#8211; Bruges isn&#8217;t exactly a party capital.<br><br>Day trip to Brussels! We caught the train to Brussels, and after about 1 hour we had walked around the touristy bit, seen the main square and the statue of the little boy ...

... she was going to recite the whole thing in the one tone and never smile. Then she cracked her first joke and you wondered whether it was deliberate until you saw the twinkle in her eye and the slight upturn in the corner of her mouth. At the end of each section she then had to repeat her spiel in French for the group behind us so she instructed us in her thick accent to &#8216;go to the next spot and there, wait for me&#8217;. In one part of the tour you need to duck quite a bit as ...

... 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 ...

... run 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.<br><br>If anyone is ever in Bruges there is this little restaurant that has all you can eat ribs for pretty cheap and right across the ...

... playing "The Sting"!!<br><br>Aug 15, 2009-Saturday 27C Hot Sunny Day~<br><br>This morning I awoke early to try to meet the Quasimodo Flanders Field Tour Bus. I went to the location they cited in an email, but did not connect with them. I had been trying for a couple of days to contact them by email, and then by phone, but was unsuccessful. Therefore, my plans for the day were changed - As they say in Brugge - No problem in a ...

... increíbles y después fui a ver los molinos de viento antiguos. Al fin veo uno! En Amsterdam mucha joda, pero ni uno vi! Me encontré en el tren con dos gallegos que conocí en el tour por el barrio rojo, así que tuve compañia por este día. Eran muchas horas de viaje para ir en el día, pero valió la pena.

... than inabitants. There are many, many shops that sells local beers, choccolate, Christmas decoration (as this town is also renown for it's Christmas markets). The main landmark is the Town Tower (Belfort), on the main square of the town, Big Market Square (Grote Markt), but there are also a lot of very impressive churches and the Begijnhof, a Beguines convent.