Ter Streep Ostende
Leopold II-laan 14 Ostende, West Flanders, 8400, Belgium
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Final Morning and Final Thoughts
... there would still be enough to do on a return trip… the museums, the Brewery Tour (sadly omitted from the itinerary as we’d missed the tour times – 11am and 3pm on a Monday…), a trip to Flanders.
Compared to other cities we’ve visited (Paris, I’m looking at you!) there was a distinct lack of beggars, homeless or street sellers. The only time ...
Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an
... for the Church of our Lady… this is such a stunning building, and the area around Bonifacius Bridge is just so typically what I imagine Bruges to be… all canals right up to the buildings, and crumbling, ivy-covered bridges.We head towards Minnewater – after all, today is our 3rd wedding anniversary, and where better to be than ‘Lovers Lake’? We head into the Beguinage, obeying all the explicit requests for silence – only to ...
Day 2 – the best laid plans….
... details (if this had been me, no doubt my writing would have become more and more illegible as the night wore on… Imagine... “11pm. Beer no 7. Called ‘Beer’. Tastes like… ‘Beer’…”Before we get to the stage where every beer starts to taste the same – and before we start demanding “bartender, give me the strongest beer you have!” – we return to our hotel to contemplate our final day in ...
Venice of the North
This past Sunday I went to Brugge with two girls from Portugal, and I absolutely loved the city. It was beautiful. Not to mention the weather was perfect, ie not raining.
We left Liege by train at 10:00 and arrived in Brugge at 12:00. The Go-Pass made the trip so cheap, just 10 euros round trip! When we got to Brugge, we basically walked around and took a ...
In Bruges
... who commissioned most of the art, must have felt threatened by its economically thriving and capitalist neighbor, the Netherlands (which later turned Protestant). The museum also housed Flemish Baroque, Renaissance, and Modern art.
I had a few favorite paintings from the Groeninge Museum. There was one, a portrait, by an unknown artist in the 18th century of an upper-class man and his daughter. The man was dressed in full garb of the 1700’s and postured in ...



