300 beers in Bruges

Bruges is lovely! Full of beautiful old gothic buildings and cobblestoned streets. Horse and cart dominate the streets and tourists stop at every corner to look at the chocolate stores and decide which goodie they’ll eat next.

Bruges is famous for several reasons. Chocolate (obviously) hot chips with various sauces (mayonnaise, tartar sauce, curry sauce, pickles… take your choice) beer, waffles and… the film “In Bruges”. I’m happy to say that our diet went out the window today as we sampled all these high in fat and sugar goodies (I must say that they were all very very delicious) and were able to take a good tour of the town centre where we saw quite a few of the land mark sites from the film. It was a lovely day, we saw so much and were able to take a little boat tour, and it was very nice!

Bruges has many many beautiful cathedrals, buildings, shops and little homes that are situated right on the waterfront, just gorgeous!

We stopped for a quick drink by the water front before moving on as it was just a little chilly by the water, our next stop was dinner. Max and Kora have both been to Bruges before and Max became quite happy as we stumbled upon the restaurant he first ate in during his first visit to Bruges, then as we were seated at the table he had last time. It was very sweet! Dinner was delicious, beer and wine was drunk and then we had waffles, it was a very full, very yummy dinner.

We’d read about a little bar that serves 300 different kinds of beer, so, knowing that Bruges is famous for it’s beer and wanting to sample some of this, we head off. It was little and had an awesome atmosphere, we felt right at home straight off! It was here that we sampled beer (I myself stuck to wine) and met an English actor who now lives in Bruges named Nick. He was quite nice and sat with us through out the night suggesting all the best beer to sample. It was a lovely night filled with much laughter and drinking. The staff there was all really very nice and continued to serve us beer and suggest nice ones to try through out the night until we stumbled out and back towards the hotel at 3am

written by  Chris and Emily on July 18, 2009 from Brugge, Belgium
from the travel blog: Europe 2009
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