A Day in Brugge (Friday the 13th of april, 2007)

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Category:	Other

Brugge (or Bruges in English) is the most touristic town of Belgium. I'm quite sure that at least 80% of all Japanese people on this world has been there at least once. The reason for this is that it's still a very medieval town. So it is fun to visit and it has several nice museums too but don't expect to be alone ;-)

We've been there several times before (just read the reviews) and this time we visited:

1) the exhibit "The Handsome and the Mad" which was about Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad.
It was a very enjoyable exhibit in the Church-of-our-Lady with some beautiful pieces.

2) the exhibit about Albrecht Dürer's graphic work in the "Arentshuis", a very nice old house. I love Dürer's works so that was very enjoyable too. His details and human depiction are brilliant!

3) Celtic Ireland Irish Pub and Restaurant for some decent smoked salmon and red beer ;-) The one in Antwerp is still the best by the way (read the review, there's a link there)

4) Choco-Story, a museum about the history of chocolate. The information has a lot of grammar mistakes and faulty historical 'facts' but the basics are interesting. Their collection of Mexican archaeological objects is very nice eventhough it lacks good information. And the chocolate objects there are quite amazing. And so is the smell!

5) Our favourite chocolate shop (De Burg, see review) for some mouthwatering chocolates

And after that we sat near the water to look at all the swans (at least 20!). When we walked back to the station later we also saw a great crested grebe with a nest with 3 eggs! Pretty cool right?