Bruges, Belgium

In April it will be one year since I left Greece and began my backpacking trek around Europe, and I have only written about half of the countries I visited! In honor of it being a year, and for posterity’s sake, I am cranking out the rest of the countries this week. Here it goes.

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At 6 AM we got the heck out of Amsterdam. Sure, the architecture was beautiful and it was neat that everyone rides bicycles instead of driving cars, but uh, we hated it. Sometimes the girls and I will text each other and say, “remember that awful city. ugh.”

Moving on.

We took a bus to the train station, got cheap cappuccino's out of the vending machines, and boarded the train for Belgium!  When we arrived in Bruges it was a beautiful, sunshiny day. We walked down the brick streets from the train station to the city square where we picked up Belgian waffles (with nutella!), Godiva chocolate covered strawberries (of course), and french fries because it seemed like the right thing to do.

  

After we’d eaten everything in the city, we moseyed in and out of shops for the afternoon. 

It was such a good day!

 

Next stop: ‘ole Pari!