Brugge is a small but beautiful little medieval town to the West of Brussels made infamous by the film "In Bruges" with Colin Farrell. I saw it once, but pretty sure I slept through most of it. We decided to take a look, not because of the movie or because we had any particular interest in it; but rather because reasonable accommodation for Sat night in Amsterdam was impossible to find. And, what a nice surprise it turned out to be. It is crowded with tourists an...

One last tube trip in the big city took us to St Pancras station where we had bid adieu to Linda and the UK and hopped on the Eurostar bound for the mainland. It's been a while since I have experienced the tingle of excitement that comes with jumping on a train in one country knowing that a few short hours later you will be deposited in another country where they speak another language and have another culture. The Eurostar is exactly such a train; it's pretty ba...