Belgium

When you think of Belgium, 3 things usually come to mind: Beer, chocolate and waffles. 3 days in Belgium and all is true. We had to get up at 4.30 am to catch a 6.55 flight (Thank god for the heathrow express train, home to Heathrow in 15 minutes!) We landed in Brussells and got straight on a train and headed to Bruges. Bruges is a cool kids destination at present, it was voted the European Culture capital in 2002. It is a small medievil town that looks straight out of the 1800's with all the modern touches - Amazing architecture and best of all not a starbucks or McD's in sight. You can walk the entire city in 45 minutes.

Points of Note

- There are 1000 bikes to every car or there abouts (go the cyclist)

- There are just as many horse and carriages as there are cars (seriously)

We hit up the Brewery tour on the first day and learnt all about how they make beer, we also got to taste the 'unfiltered stuff' that they drink in the brewery before the chemicals get added and shipped to pubs and shops. This was the first of the 17 different Belgium beers we tried, some fantastic and some so bad that they are not worth a mention.. look out for our ratings in a future post. We also hit up the diamond museum where i bought Kat some diamonds (the fact they came from a robot called BORIS, cost 4 Euro and look like sand is not the point.

Next was the chocolate factory, believe it or not i got through it without tasting a single piece, it was more fun looking than eating. After all this it was time for more beer.

The best cure of the next day blues had to be a fresh waffle... truly unbelieveable and a benchmark that will probably be impossible to beat outside Belguim.

We spent the last day in Brussels looking around, nothing special - although again fantastic waffles.

Fantastic weekend and we may just have to visit Bruges again sometime.