Well, we find ourselves in beautiful Brugge.
We arrived here yesterday by bus, after an express overnight stop in Paris. We had pre-booked our accommodation to be close by our bus pick up point (we had to be there, next day, 8am Paris time) and have to say it was pretty ordinary. The area was the 18th district (arrondisement) of Paris which has quite a strong Hindi (mavri) population, as we discovered. We had caught a local bus from Charles de Gaulle airport to Gare de Nord and one of the first things we saw as we alighted was a one-legged Indian lady begging for money. Stump and all exposed. Welcome to Paris! Anyway we made our way to our hotel and after being in transit for over 25hours, literally had showers and were asleep by 6pm. Awake again early in the morning, we checked out and strolled up by the Seine to arrive at our Busabout pick up point just in time.
Driving through the outskirts of Brugge yesterday the first thing we really noticed was the steep roof pitch of all the homes. It’s pretty much farming district, and these little triangled homes are littered throughout the countryside. Pulling up in Brugge we lugged our backpacks through the Maarkt (main square) to our accommodation where we dumped our bags, grabbed our maps and started exploring. It was really our first afternoonof sightseeing. Belgium is apparently famous for inventing the french fry so we couldn’t resist indulging for a couple of euros. My mum had said that when we were broke and got hungry we should eat potatos (fae patates) so we’ve already achieved that objective! JB has already been into the chocolate:
Hmm, looks good...
New meaning for a chocolate
Today we’ve been to the information bureau and bought a 5 museum pass which we’re going to test out this afternoon at the Belfry. Until next time, au revoir!
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