So we left Paris a few days ago and headed to Brugge. The countryside around Brugge was heaps like Christchurch or... the Paraparamu area. Really green and on the day we arrived it was quite grey and drizzly. Our hostess definitely had the mostest - he was the most CLASSIC Brugian (made that up) that I could ever imagine meeting. I expected him to whip on a beer maid outfit and dance us a wee dance. He was just so damn happy and it was such a crack up to hear him replace all the th's with 'd' e.g. den da key will open de room (say this in a fat jolly man sing song type voice). In fact speaking of music he did play some mean piano and our hostel had the best music we have heard all trip! We rented bikes (proper dutch bikes) as soon as we got there and went for a cruise on the cobbled streets of Brugge (cobbled streets rattle your bones so it was quite dangerous to our health and we needed many chocolate shop stops to survive the traumer) and five minutes later we had seen all you needed to see :)
No there was probably a lot we didn't see but it was nice that it was so small because we just got a chance to chill and got take aways and ate them at our hostel because it was SO awesome and then the next day we just hooned on our bikes and visited the uber-extremo fresh food market - nothing like hot chicken and raspberries for breakfast. YUM.
Anyway enough with the banter - here are some pics from our good friend Brugge:
Our hostel common room had a piano, cool photography, chandeliers and the best tunes ever...
And the best bit of our whole hostel was the extreme art in our room: a stingray drinking wine with two crayfish on his plate... hmmmm... abstract!
The bone shakin cobbled streets - pretty but ruthless :) In fact we were so terrified of them that we got a 5 minute taxi to the train station so that we didn't have to wheel our bags along them :)
The main square where the market was the next day. It was surrounded by what seemed like very old buildings and it really did feel like we had gone back in time. Maybe we did...
The chocolate store where we spent approx one week of our pay...
Pretty parks and what not - and white swans just like in the movies. After seeing the swans my trip to Brugge was complete.
The insane number of bikes in Brugge was a huge surprise - I knew they loved de bike yah. But i didn't know they loved it enough to literally have 500+ - 1000 bikes outside the train station in a bike park. So cool!
Mmmmm markety goodness - fruit and veges for our deprived bodies! Oh and greasy amazing freshly cooked chicken.
And now for the only word we learnt while we were there....
Dankyou (thank you)! I just tried to check the spelling of that and given what urban disctionary came back to me with I don't think I have the spelling right :)
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