This entry will cover both the 19th and 20th October. The two days are spent covering every nook and cranny on the town map: walking along all the canals, passing several windmills, stopping for rests on park benches in lush, green gardens, browsing shop fronts with the occasional purchase, cafe and lunch stops, morning markets, museums, cathedrals etc etc At the Church of Our Lady, we viewed Michelangelo's world famous 'Mother and child'. In the same church, we saw painted tombs from the 13th & 14th century and a 122 metre brick tower.

On Saturday morning we go to the train station to sort out our reservation for the train to Paris and were stunned when told that it would cost 80 euro for both of us. Irregardless, the train we wanted to catch was fully booked out, actually.....correction, not booked out, only a limited number of seats are allocated to Eurail Pass holders. We managed to obtain a reservation on a earlier, slower route to Paris which cost 9 euro per person. This was a learning experience for us because we weren't expecting problems in making reservation with our Eurail Pass, a pass that cost the same amount as our international flight.

We spent our final evening working out how to get to our accommodation in Paris tomorrow.