Brugges, Belgium

I have to restart blogging at breakneck speed to catch up with all the yummy meals I've had over the past 2 months, and am blaming the elections for holding up my progress. The husband and I were watching all the rallies online almost every night - some after coming back from rallies as well, which has made it very difficult to blog. Finishing up Brussels soon, and then will move on to some really good meals that we've had in Singapore.

During our trip, the husband and I managed to visit Brugges, which is a small Disneyland-like town about 45 mins from Brussels by train. Our tickets cost slightly under 20 Euros each and it was an easy train ride. The town was very walkable, and we had a great time exploring it. Brugges is such a pretty town the view sometimes appears unbelievable, with the streets lined with heritage buildings and canals.


They have a lovely market square, which is similar to the Grand Place in Brussels albeit on just a slightly smaller scale. We were most happy that it turned out to be Market Day that Wednesday! The square was also full of locals doing their grocery shopping - finally a bit of realism amidst all the surreal prettiness of the town.

We weren't too sure about the restaurants around the square, which we felt were rather touristy. So we decided to buy some roast meats from the rotisserie and sit on the steps of a building to have our own lunch. We wanted to get bread as well, but by the time we managed to get the meat the baker had packed up and driven off!

Sausage shop still open for business - I was tempted, but it would have been foolhardy without any cutlery.

The roast chicken was too messy to photograph, but the roast pork tasted as good as it looked.

I bought a punnet of huge strawberries - each was around 5cm long - from a fruit seller. This cost me 3 Euros since he was packing up too. They were extremely sweet : )

After lunch, we walked to the far end of the town to have a look at the windmills. It was a lovely day!