To start the day in Bruges we all did a boat tour (some of the pictures I posted yesterday I took on the boat, so there aren’t as many today). Bruges is surrounded by a canal, so boat is a great way to see the town!
After the boat tour a bunch of the faculty/staff decided to find coffee. One of the professors has been on the program before, so he recommended this place and specifically the marocchino, which is espresso with chocolate and frothed milk-very well made! And a wonderful break from my instant cappuccinos!
After coffee, it was off to explore and do a little bit of shopping. The teacher I was walking around with wanted to show off the wall of beer…(it keeps going a lot further than this picture can show
…but I was more interested in the Tintin statue!
Then we found The Chocolate Line, which was the chocolate shop recommended to us by one of our tour guides/staff members from Lille. They have all kinds of interesting flavors-I decided to get a small sampling box that had 8.
Now it was time to find some lunch. We ended up sitting outside at a restaurant that served some traditional Flemish dishes. I had what they translated to “Chicken Stew”, but it was more like chicken and biscuits, but with super flaky biscuits and it also had little baby potatoes in it. It was very tasty!
Then I decided to head to the Lace Museum, since I had been to Bruges previously and wanted to see something different.
After the lace museum I had some time still, so I went to see the Basiliek van het Heilig Bloed (the Basilica of the Holy Blood), which has some amazing architecture and artwork.
Then I decided to sit in the courtyard and listen to the carillon tower with a waffle. This waffle was terrible-the worst one I’ve had anywhere I think, so that was disappointing. The carillon was lovely to listen to though-it’s up in the bell tower and looks a lot like an organ but they are triggering the ringing of bells. They play all sorts of music from the tower and walking through town one of the songs I heard playing was “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast, so that was fun!
All in all Bruges was a success (other than the waffle)-it is such a cute town even with all the tourists-I highly recommend!
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