Bruges, Belgium (10/26)

Bruges, Belgium

October 26, 2014

Woke up early. Taking a day train to visit Bruges.  We wanted to stay overnight, but could not find an "affordable" hotel. So a day visit will do. 

Bruges is beautiful! You leave the train and walk right into the city. No bus needed. Bruges is famous for many things... Chocolate, frites, lace and of course beer. 

Our first order of business, visiting the famous "Beer Wall". They have over 300 kinds of beers.  So crowded, so we stood inline for quite a while. That is OK, because there are so many to choose from. The menus hang from the ceiling by elastic thread. So you choose your language. When you moved forward in line, another Enflish menu will be available. Lee chose the traditional Bruges ber and I chose the Cherri beer.  It was very good, but any beer is good with nuts.  It was a beautiful day, so we sipped our beer not he river and watched the tour boats pass by below.

Next we visited the chocolate shops.  Lee loves chocolate, but has not purchased one piece of chocolate.  He can not resist the pastries. Also, we wanted to try the frites.  Do not call these French fries! The guy at the shop is like the "soup nazi" on Sienfield.  So be careful and most of all be patient. Frites are potatoes that Re cried twice.Of course, twice as fattening too.  Then he serves them whit a big blog of mayo on top. I asked for a little mayo on the side and ketchup on the other.  He was not happy. Not the way he like to serve his frites!!! They were very good. We enjoyed while we walked around the town. Wanted to do a bike ride, but could not find a bike rental store that was open. 

Almost time to leave, so we had just enough time to do the boat tour.  The boats were olds old wooden boats.. So nostalgics! The guide gave us info about the old homes and buildings.  We even saw somes swans on the river.  

Yes, Marilyn was there and Elvis too!

Oh well, time to leave and head back to the train. Would definitely recommend Bruges as a place to visit.  But for us, back to Brussels.  We had a train that was leaving around 10:00pm for Prague.