Zoya always said that Brugge was the best city we visited while in Europe. This may be because of all the ice cream we ate there and also because it is a cool name. So we took the train from Paris to Brussels and then caught the train from Brussels to Brugge, a UNESCO world heritage city. Brussels was quite depressing (at least the area around the station), so we were glad we didn’t stay there for a night. While killing time we did find a middle eastern tea shoppe that was terrific. It was a big smoky old room and they served the best mint tea I’ve ever had.
We stayed at an updated bed and breakfast about 10 minutes from the central square in Brugge. We enjoyed wandering around the canals and exploring some of the squares. And of course we found a playground for Zoya and, as mentioned earlier, we ate a lot of ice cream. We didn’t see a lot of the sun and sometimes it was downright cold.
Paris train station
Tea Room in Brussels
We are not so good at travelling light; ask Verena what she has in that knapsack sometime
Brugge B&B
Picnic
Canal
Alley
Market Square
Another view of square
House front
Canal garden
We drag her around the town and she gets to have ice cream; win-win
Brugge playground
kelly ens said,
October 2, 2011 at 3:13 am
VERY cool pictures!!!! the B&B looks really nice
i really DO want to know what’s in that pack, V!!!
Oma said,
October 3, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I too would like to know what’s in Verena’s pack – chocolate?
verena said,
October 4, 2011 at 12:46 pm
you really don’t need to know… let’s just say that brian refused to carry it for me eventhough it was at least 40 pounds (the front one). all i will say is that the short term pain of it was worth the long term gain
Shereen said,
October 6, 2011 at 1:02 am
lots of wine?