FYI: Brugge, Belgium, is "The Venice of the North" because it has all these beautiful canals since the city used to be a major major center for commerce and trade to the UK. But then it fell behind Antwerp and was kindof forgotten until people started putting a lot of money back into it to bring people back. It is a very cool little city!
We got up and stuffed ourselves with the hostel's complimentary breakfast. It was nice not eating sliced bread and fruit on train station floors for once! :D We stuffed our bags in a locker and took advantage of the fun little Brugge map we got from the hostel.
On the way to the train station to book our next tickets we saw this cool gate into the city where they once put the skull of a guy who tried to let ransackers in from the outside. The canals and the grassy areas around them were sooo beautiful, especially with all the changing leaves!
We saw this cool gate where they put some guy's skull on to warn others not to try to let bad outsiders in to ransack, learned that the horses with carriages around the city have big leather slides connected to their backsides to catch all their poop!, saw a place where women established their own community, a church with Michelangelo's statue of the Virgin and Child, another church that has what it believes to be a vile of the blood of Jesus, saw the cool town square.
We had Belgian fries -
the ORIGINAL fries, NOT French, troops got confused - ran around the foundations of an old church in the basement of this hotel, bought chocolate from a famous 97-year-old shop owner - she was really cute! - and walked around the windmills surrounding the old city center. Big day!
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