Ter Streep Ostende

... more like 2500. My favourite beers were de Garre (local speciality sold exclusively at the pub of the same name - Dark flavourful and quite strong), Leffe, Westmalle Trappist, Bruges zot and bok. Whitney even gave in and sipped a few of my beers until we found one she liked!! It was a Raspberry fruity beer that was quite sweet.<br>Other than beer, we had to indulge in the other Belgian standards: Waffles, chocolate ...

... 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 ...

... 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!

... again they were replicas. I put my engagement ring under the microscope here and saw what a cheap ******* Witek really is. Nah, he did all right actually! J<br><br>We next visited &#8216;Minniwater&#8217;, or &#8216;The Lake of Love&#8217; which is basically a very pretty lake in Brugge. We sat there for a while watching the boats and the birdlife and just enjoying the peace. We had found a nice quiet little place behind some trees where we could sit on the edge and just watch.<br><br ...

... Little houses on tiny cobblestone streets near big beautiful churches. I stopped on the square and had dinner. What Europeans call a menu is really kind of a set price thing. One from column A, one from column B and a dessert . I started out with a big Leffe beer since I&#8217;m in the land of beer. Then the soup, then a traditional Belgian stew and chocolate mousse for desert. Oh yeah, another small Chimay beer and then coffee. The ...

... waffles. My friend and I split a banana, vanilla ice cream, and chocolate syrup-doused waffle, which was completely gone in about the span of 49 seconds. Our other friend got up from the table for a split second and basically missed the entire thing. After we scraped off all the leftover powdered sugar and chocolate sauce on the plate, and drank the rest of the sauce in its cup (I&#8217;m sad to say, that is totally true), we were ready to head off again.

... 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 ...

... massacre all the natural landscape, look first at what happened to your own country too. I always think of that when I see Belgian coast, because I think sand dunes are beautiful and there's almost none of it left. These ones are just a few preserved hundred meters. Here's how it looks without the sand dunes : The next day we set up for a bike tour ...

... history. We also stopped in Ypres, the medieval city that was completely leveled during the 4 years of fighting. It's all been rebuilt to look just like the original city, but all of the buildings there now are 1920's or newer. We stopped by the Menin Gate where the names of 55,000 soldiers missing in action are inscribed. Then we went to a WWI trench that has been excavated and we could walk through. It's difficult to really get a feel of what it ...

Bruges, which means "landing stage" in the old Norse language, was in its heyday one of the most important trading centres in Northwest Europe. It has since become one of Belgiums premier tourist attractions, drawing millions every year. What was supposed to be a one hour long journey took two cos I missed my stop and although I thought of pressing the emergency button and causing the train to come to a screeching halt, I realised I'd probably be ...