Novotel Gent Centrum Ghent

... city. Awesome architecture and canals winding around the city, as I took tons of pictures as always and just enjoyed the city.

Apparently Brugges had a movie made recently with it as a location; I'll have to check it out sometime. The main "art" piece I saw was a Madonna with Child from -the- Michaelangelo from Italy. It was quit nice, as were the countless other paintings and sculptures I saw in that ...

... and pasta dish with tomato sauce, mushrooms, celery, onion, garlic, etc. Fantastic and delicious. Afterwards, we met up with a few (mainly local) CSers at a bar near her house, where we played some board games and "werewolf" which wasn't too bad. Most of them were quite friendly and I had a nice time.

We came home not too late, as I was to go to Brugges the next day.

... driving) but the motorways were so good - 3 lanes each way, hardly any traffic at all, and really smooth. The motorways in France have a speed limit of 130kph in the dry, and 110kph in the wet, so either way they were faster and more direct than the meandering country roads with a 90kph limit.

Part of the way along, we came across team Les Pompiers, and they drove past us waving our aerial at us! We soon caught up and received it back though...at about 130kph!

We stopped ...

... went to as well (hey, it was raining the whole time). This was considerably better than the fry museum (although not as funny) and we got a demonstration on how they make the famous Belgian Prailines.
Other than that, our 3 days in Brugge were filled with more choclate, beer, and fries (and one waffle) and admiring what the cute little town has to offer. Now we're off to Amsterdam... wish us luck!

... went for a wander around the Beguinage and the little streets of the city before stopping for lunch in a restaurant on the main square, which was really nice and served local traditional food which was really great.

We wanted to go up the clock-tower but the queue was far too long and we decided that we could go back another day during the week when there weren't so many tourists!

The Christmas market had just started in Bruges so we spent quite a while wandering ...

... The Grote Markt (Big Town Square) was huge and surrounded by cafes and gorgeous buildings such as the city hall. Many cities we've been to have similar squares with some being much more exceptional then others, Brugge included. We walked around the city, passing over the canals and peering into the churches. We went into the Beguinage in the city which was once owned by the Benguines who you could say were the first feminists. Their ...

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I don't know if a week in Belgium was enough. Belgium is a very cool country. Great beer and very strong...sitting at a café one day in Ghent we had two of the house beers that were 13% (the limit is three and then they cut you off) and honestly biking home was a mission. Brugge was beautiful and we were real tourists. We did a canal tour and a tour through the chocolate museum (actually very interesting) and obviously a real hit with the ...

... away and walked down some random streets, just admiring the city and figured that I would check out what ever city or monument that I ran into first, since I was only in Brussels for one day, there was no sense in me struggling to try and see everything. I figured that this day in Brussels was going to be an introduction to the city and a little taste of the city and Belgium, and that if I ever came back, I could explore in more depth next time. I ended ...

... this one place had the "Best Pancakes in the World", so I decided to give it a try. Now these were good pancakes, Belgian style, with raspberry sauce, pears, tangy fruit ice cream (tasted like kiwi), and whipped cream. Topped it off with the traditional drink with pancakes, cider. It was a really neat little place too, all the décor looked like it was 100 years old, and they were playing nice classical-style music (practically everywhere here plays loud, annoying ...