Bruges

A short train ride (40 mins or so) from Brussels is Bruges.  We decided to visit this city on our second day in Belgium.  Getting of the train the city looked like any other city so far.  Train station loads of cars and buses.  In the distance we could see some church steeples and decided to head in that direction.

As soon as we crossed the main road beside the train station there was a major loss of cars and the roads became rather narrow and a lot more push bikes appeared.  Turns out that the city from this ring round has been preserved as a historic city (no idea what era Google says 12th onwards).

Meandering round the small streets and catching all the sites we also noticed how many canals there was in the city, we found a boat which was fairly priced which took us a tour of the city on the canals.

Some more beer stops and we sampled the local beer.  Brugse Zot  translates to mad Bruges.  The beer is still brewed in the historic center itself.  One of the best beers that we sampled while in Belgium.

A walk back to the train station and a well deserved snooze on the train was now in hand.