11 Apr
My one main goal to walk back through Bruge really was to stop at the one chocolate store I had liked the look of, called Brown Sugar, and buy some Belgian chocolate. After all, it was a bit sacrilegious that I had spent nearly 2 days now in Belgium, a diehard chocolate lover, and I [...]
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11 Apr
OK, catchy title but not really what I saw at all…
I let the group pass on their way to view lace-making and zipped back to the town hall and found my way up to the first level which contained the entrance to the Belfry. I just squeaked in – last chance to enter was at [...]
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11 Apr
I split from the group waiting for everyone to finish their canal boat ride and set off behind the other rebel couple, but soon fell behind. I thought after spending a day and half right now, I really should pop into a store and see the local specialty – tapestries…. I went into two [...]
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11 Apr
As it was, I had to wait about 10 minutes or so before our boat started to load as apparently the drivers were at lunch. We could have ‘explored ‘ a little longer… The high clouds finally burnt off as we waited, and I hastily brought out my sunscreen and applied it (yes, paranoid Australian!). [...]
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11 Apr
Eventually my tour group reappeared from lunch and we set off, first walking through everything I had just explored, then down a narrow street, less than 1m (3ft) wide – the narrowest street in Bruge. Was it really ever a street? Looked like an ally to me!
Then we stopped at a cathedral where we were [...]
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