We have officially discovered Nutella (the Belgian version anyhow) and pastries. Life is changed forever!

It was kind of surreal yesterday - we spent the day with Colin's relatives travelling through WWI and WWII monuments with songs like "Black Benny"and "I will survive " playing on the Belgium radio. Gerta and Gerrit are excellent tour guides... They led us through Verune , Diksmuide (trench of death), Nieuwpoort (where the decision to flood the country to stop the Germans was carried out) , Zonebeke (Passchendale memorial) Tyn Cot cemetery, Vladslo ( German ce...

After 16 hours of travel we have arrived in our destination in Bruges, Belgium. We were even greeted at the train station by my relatives Gerrit, Gerda, Ruben and Bjorn. Ruben's great-grandmother is my great grandfather's sister. They are amazing hosts and even took us to the coast for our first dinner. So far our strategy for dealing with jetlag has been successful - ignore the jetlag, keep going until you drop, sleep 12 hours then bike 75kms. Today went ex...