Montovani Brugge

... sauce, both delicious). Yes, we really fit in well there and enjoyed our time. We used the map to discover really cute little pubs, including one that is the oldest in Bruges. You enter through a door off a tiny street and go up some internal stairs until you reach, what I presume, was someone's living room at one point. People have been coming to this place to drink beer since 1515. We met up with a young couple from Texas ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... Then I started the real bike ride.<br><br>Earlier, I had bought a cycling tour brochure at the tourist information center. It outlined a 41.5 km cycling tour that went out to the town of Sluis, but it also went through the village of Damme (only 7 km away). I figured I&#8217;d probably just go out to Damme and back.<br><br>So I started by getting to the outskirts of Bruges, where there was a ring canal lined with a few windmills. They were pretty neat, but not nearly as ...

... so crowded that you are 50 feet away and can't see anything. We took our time after that. We spent at least 15 minutes catching our breath. The Venus De Milo, Picasso, and Davinci's were all stunningly georgeous, yet us being the art fans that we are, still couldn't wrap our heads around the fact that we were in Paris, at the Louvre with 40 days ahead of us. We then took a little stroll to the Eiffel tower, only to realize ...

... quelques clichés de cette magnifique petite ville. J'ai le temps de prendre 28 clichés, pas un de plus : la pluie me tombe bientôt violemment dessus, et j'arrive au bar de l'hôtel (où Pierre-Luc est assis avec un ordinateur portable, bien au sec) complètement détrempé. Au moins, j'ai de très belles photos, au point où je me demande comment je pourrais en croquer de plus belles d'ici la fin du voyage... je vous en montre quelques-unes. A demain !

... wasn't that great as you have to read a lot and just look at the displays of urns, boxes, flasks etc.. as the museum covers the history of chocolate. At the end, you can watch the 'chef' explain how chocolate is made and even get to taste one.. yeehaa.. 1 chocolate.. =P I'm yet to decide if I'm a fan of Belgium chocolate though as I found that one to be too sweet for my liking, once again.. So after the Chocolate Museum, we headed to De Halve ...

i intended to spend the mornin in brussels then the arvo and night in brugge, wen i arrived in brussels id seen my **** and was just completely ****ed off by everyone and everything so it didnt help wen i got lost in the train station, so i just ****ed it off and headed up to brugge. it was a good choice cos brugge was a lovely little place, pretty ...