Early start as we head to Bruges. The highlight of our trip was actually being able to get back to Amsterdam! It all started when we got on the train without our tickets being checked and when they checked them on the train it was found we had got on a day early. They could have off loaded us on the way but did not. We were told we needed to change our return tickets to Amsterdam at the Brussels ticket office as well as our tickets from Brussels to Bruges. Afte...

Same cafe for breakfast - croissant, orange juice and double expresso (for both of us). Today was a bit of walking. We could have done it in a more direct route as we found out when we made our way back home but it was interesting - especially going through one of the areas. Not too risky - just interesting and a bit out of our comfort zone. Today we visited a number of churches including the cathedral (St Michael & St Gudle), the Palais de Justice and th...

Manneken-Pis let go his bladder overnight as it was raining quite hard this morning. Luckily it stopped for the afternoon although remained heavily overcast. First wet day we have had on this trip so quite lucky so far. Set off for the Musee Royaux des Beaux Arts, a building that houses no less than 3 museums/art galleries. We went to the Musee Fin-de-Siecle (End of Century). Most of the artists were Belgians which is one of the reasons why we went as we knew n...

Had a great meeting and lunch with our friends yesterday. This morning we headed off to St Pancras Station to catch the Eurorail to Brussels. A quick 2 hour trip and we were there. A taxi ride to the hotel, check in and out onto the town. Our hotel is a small boutique hotel right beside the Les Galeries Royales Saint Hubert - a very old shopping mall. We quickly checked in then we off for a wander through the Galeries then out to to the central square of Brus...