

The day started off with beautiful blue skies so it was a great opportunity to take a pic of the famous whit cliffs of Dover. The air was still cold though so I didn't stay out on the deck but instead retreated indoors after my photo shoot.
The ferry crossing was very rocky and it made me feel like I couldn't walk so after stumbling my way through the duty free

A day of shopping in beautiful Brugge. Belgium is apparently famous for chocolate, beer and lace. I only knew about the chocolate but that is probably cos I am a little biased towards chocolate. According to the tour guide there are pubs that sell up


Brugge started off as a major port town but over the years it started losing its "business" to other ports in Europe. It eventually became the poorest city in Belgium, looking at it now you would never guess because in 20th century it beacame a popular tourist spot. It has lots of canals and is apparently known as Venice of the north because of all these canals - I am not too sure how Amsterdam lost out on this title.

Maybe it is just because of the Christmas season but just walking into the town centre I got an amazing feeling of Christmas spirit. I have probably just seen too many movies but with crisp cool air chilling my cheeks and my nose and my warm coat wrapped around me I could just imagine sitting inside with a log fire -


They definitely have the most amazing Christmas decorations this side of the equator. Was walking past a shop and in the window a saw a decorated Christmas tree and there was snow falling down over it. Went inside to investigate and it is a tree that works a bit like a chocolate fountain. It has a "pool" of little poystyrene balls at the base of the tree and the polystyrene gets pumped up the centre of the tree, out the top of the tree and hence falls down on the tree as if it were snow. Looked really cool, its a pitty it was a bit big to take home.


After walking around the markets 4/5 times trying to decide what I should or shouldn't buy - I started running out of time and had to make quick decisions. It also decided to have a bit of a downpour on my head and since I

The downpour was a short one but not long after leaving Brugge it started coming down again and pretty much persisted all the way home.

2 comments:
Sounds and looks so nice. Just thought I would let you know that they have the same christmas tree with polysterine balls here as well so you can maybe get one here?
See you soon
So there are white cliffs!
Cool
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