The Scroop's European Holiday: Brugge

This morning the kids get up and go with Kris next door to the reception area to pick up our bakery order. They come back with croissants and pastries and they were fantastic. After brekky we go for a wander and we find an amazing church in the Burg which is the square next to the main Markt Square. We have a look inside before continuing on. We spend most of the morning wandering around and battling the crowds. There a lot of day trippers that come to Brugge and it seems the place gets very crowded between about 10am and 5pm. We get to the brewery "The Halve Maan" which is another recommendation to visit. They do a brewery tour so we book in for 11am tomorrow as they are fully booked for today and we have a 1 o'clock reservation at Cambrinus for lunch we need to get to. We make our way back to Cambrinus and the place is packed again so lucky we made that reservation. We order our meals and drinks and I keep sampling The Belgium beers and it is really difficult to decide which one to have. This particular bar sells over 400 different beers, so it says anyway and Belgium make over 1000 apparently. We stumble out of there a few hours later and have a bit more of a wander through some of the chocolate shops. In Brugge, the chocolate shops are amazing and they are everywhere. We head back to the apartment for a bit of a rest and I go down to the honesty bar at reception and pick out a couple of beers to have in the garden and a bottle of red for Kris. In Belgium, most of the beers have a specific glass the beer needs to be drunk from. The honesty bar has a huge range of beers with all the associated glasses so the bloke that runs the joint here has really put some effort in. We head out the back to the apartment gardens and it's nice and quite while we are having a drink until the noisy Germans from upstairs come down and make more noise than Subi oval on prelim night. Not only are they noisy but they're stupid because they're in the pool and the water is freezing. After a while they nick off and leave us in peace again. We finish our drinks and head off for another wander checking the joint out and we decide to get some of the famous Belgium frites. Kris orders them plain, without the sauce and I start to think it must be the sauce that makes them famous because these just taste like chips from Maccas. We don't have dinner because we are all still full from lunch so we make our way back to the apartment. The kids head off to bed and I make another trip to the honesty bar before calling it a night.