Hotel de Tuilerieen

... station under an overpass, through a small park to the cab stand and am soon in the old town and deposited at my hotel, a stately 18th-century yellow house facing a canal. Check in to comfortable quarters on the second floor overlooking the canal, take ...

Dinner turned out quite well last night at De Visscherie, a seafood place just up the street. Grilled monkfish, tartars of scallops, king crab and new potato salad, tzaziki with sevruga caviar and a crispy, deep-fried cauliflower croquettes. Raspberry and ...

... square. (And, by the way, if it's lace and chocolate you're after, Bruges is your one-stop shopping Mecca.) Back to the hotel again as skies lighten to a pewter grey. Breakfast of coffee, fruit salad, quiche and croissants and a hot shower back in the ...

... passion for the building of a new political reality and the failure of her generation to fulfill that promise.  Back to the hotel to work out timing and logistics for tomorrow's trip back to London and north to Scarborough, enjoy a whisky by the fire ...

... NZ RSA poppies there) By that stage the girls were warred out so off to Brugge for a complete change of pace. Had booked a 4 star hotel for 100 Euro on a last minute site when it was normally 415 Euro and Sue was worried it was a glitch but no that was ...