Brugge

After one and a half days in Gent we decided to also visit Brugge. So we drove there early morning arriving just before 11AM. Weather was a bit grey but excellent for walking around.
Brugge has fantastic underground parking right near the centre. Super easy to find and from there you walk straight to the Belfort, which is the tower of power behind us.

Gent looked nice but Brugge is a fair bit prettier I find. The buildings also look better cared for.

Lots of water here as well.

Little streets between old buildings.

Apparently Brugge's first inhabitant was this bear, believe it or not. Check the story here: http://www.trabel.com/brugge/bruges-history.htm.

After walking around the centre we started walking towards the old beguinage. The walk there was lovely and went through little streets, gardens and courtyards.

Yours truly posing in chocolate street numero uno. The number of choclate shops here was nuts. At some point every second shop was a chocolate shop!
We also sat down in a tea room here and had a very nice coffee with... chocolates which we were unable to finish...

Chocolates everywhere...

Arriving at the beguinage.

Inside it was wonderfull and quiet. A mini forrest of tall trees grew in the middle. It looked kinda unreal.

Looking accross through the trees.

In the chapel nuns were ehm, chanting? Singing? There were few and they were all old. Living history. Soon religion will be a thing of the past and it will just be history...

Outside of the beguinage. This was as far as we walked out of the centre. My camera's battery ran empty and we walked back to the car, hit the road and went home.

It was a lovely weekend together with Simone.