Kneeded a break after stairways to death

A late start today at 10:30. Today we went to Bruge by train after eventually working out the ticket machine. In Bruge we had waffles as per picture below.

Then then burnt our waffles off by walking up 366 stairs up the belfort tower. There was multiple stops on the way up including the old treasury, the bell making procces, the actual bell clock mechanics and watched them play the quater hour tune and finally the bells themselves which we watched play the half past tune.

The veiw from the top was amazing and it had little arrows with names of different main cities and the distance to them. 

The steps down were hairy and difficult but some how both us and our knees survived..... just..... 

We then had lunch which was stolen from the youth hostel and then we "people watched" in the main square for a bit. 

It was now about 3:30 so we decided to do another self guided walk around bruge and back to the train station. On the walk we saw some people in masquerade, some beautiful painting, some nice canals and some swans. I finally understand why they dance as they do in swan lake. 

Once we got back we had more waffles and then had a 6 euro turkish pizza to share.


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  1. That was an exciting day.You both did very well walking up and down all those stairs.
    This is the last leg of your first holidays ,isn't it?
    Really enjoyed your blog.

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