Beautiful Bruges, what a surprise! Probably the second most romantic city I've ever been to (still doesn't surpass Venice where Dale proposed to me). Like Venice, Bruges has canals and lovely old buildings. Unlike Venice, Bruges has horse drawn carriages clattering along the cobbled streets and the smell of waffles and melted chocolate throughout its centre. There are also lovely green areas where weeping willows lean out over gently lapping waters in which w...

Symbolic to the city of Brussels is a small statue of a little boy gleefully urinating. This emblem seemed fitting to us, since our experience of Brussels was somewhat off putting. Arriving at the central station on a Sunday afternoon. We discovered that there was nowhere we could buy a map from and that anywhere we might have asked directions from was closed. Undeterred, Dale found a hotel good enough to give him a map and we began the cross city trek towards...