We finally got a nice day in Bruges! It only rained for about 10 minutes through the afternoon, but other than that, it was clear all day. We took full advantage and hired bikes for the day. First we went into the town centre and went into the Crown Plaza, where in the basement there is a church from the 14th century that was dug up when Crown Plaza first started being built, after much deliberation, the council told Crown Plaza they were not aloud to destroy t...

Today we hired bikes and rode around seeing most of the sites of Bruges. Firstly we rode up the river and past the old style windmills, then we went into the town centre (called the Markt), the buildings are set as they were in medieval times, stone cobble streets, beautiful tall buildings and loads of church buildings with chiming clocks, although most of the clocks are so old that they take forever to chime through the time. They also have about 10 horse and ca...

Today we left Paris and headed to Bruges on our first stop on our busabout tour. We arrived at around 12:30pm and made our way up to our camping site (Camp Memling) which is situated about 20 minutes walk out of town, we found the place with ease and checked in and pitched our tiny purple 2 man tent straight away. We then walked down to the shops to find something to have for dinner and while we were doing that it started pouring rain, just when we would think ...