Pick'S Hotel Ostende

Wapenplein 13 Ostende, West Flanders, Belgium

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Final Morning and Final Thoughts

A travel blog entry by emfletche

... approached for money “for a cup of tea” was back in Birmingham. Everyone we encountered was extremely friendly, and was able to converse with us in English. We also found the prices of food and drinks reasonable, with our only trip to an ATM to replace the money we’d spent on chocolate Christmas presents…

Thank you Bruges for an anniversary weekend to ...

Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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... at the Christmas market. We’re going to need to layer ourselves up a bit more for our carriage ride so it’s back to the hotel (via a VERY expensive visit to a chocolatier where we manage to do all our Christmas shopping in one swoop – plus a few extras for ourselves of course…)

The beauty of our hotel being in such a wonderful location – and of course with Bruges being so small – is that we can happily just ‘nip ...

Day 2 – the best laid plans….

A travel blog entry by emfletche

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... establishments. You know you’re in trouble when the beer options are provided in a thick ringbound menu.We snuggle in a nice table in the corner, and each sample a couple of beers each (I laughed at Mr Fletche’s very girly-sounding Femme Fatale, and fully expect it to be served with a cocktail umbrella).

The couple next to us were clearly taking their beer-drinking very seriously, with a little notebook being used to record all ...

Ótrúlegur dagur í Brugge!

A travel blog entry by jonashelgason

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... ur er. Drykkir voru bornir fram óspart, og vakti sérstaka athygli okkar að skólinn hafði látið brugga sérsakan, rótsterkan skólabjór í tilefni afmælisins. Bjórinn heitir "Den Principaal" eða "Skólameistarinn", og á glösunum sem fylgdu var mynd af fyrsta skólameistarnum. Ætlum við að fylgja þessu eftir með því að færa okkar meistara flösku og glas og mælast til að hann fari að þessu fordæmi nú í haust þegar haldið verður upp á 130 ára afmæli ...

1st day in Brugge

A travel blog entry by j-ccarlson

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... great way to see some of the sights and learn a bit of the city history.

After the boat tour we walked around the corner and found a beer store that claimed to have all of the 780 plus beers in belgium. so of course we had to go check it out. It was huge and I don't know if they had them all but there sure was a hell of a lot. We were in beer heaven. we each grabbed a few bottles and headed back to the ...