If you like food and architecture, you may like this!

Holly was 18 years old last Friday. So Tuesday of this week we all went to Brugge. We were there by 5pm, the sun was shining and I had my husband and two girls with me.

I do adore this fountain group, the mermaid is so incredible.

Pretty Brugge street...

Pretty tasty Brugge beer, with an omlette for dinner.

A walk and onto my favourite sculptures ......Set of 4 bronze sculptures, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Rik Poot, in the garden of the Arentshuis.

View from same area.....

Mmmm....

Everywhere you look in Brugge (as you know) is a treat for the eyes, a picture postcard at every turn.....

Peeled and faded...

Fancy a little ratty tasty treat????? No, me neither!

I did fancy some of the following.....

Most definitely some of these.....

Meant to try this 'best hot chocolate' but unfortunately didn't have time...

A very out of context Shop door handle. Most odd, but I really like it...50's would you say?

Holly's first Cocktail, which she didn't like, so I had to drink it, it was such a chore! She will kill me for including this.

Evening drew in on the first evening, gentle walk round the town and more alcohol consumed..... we went back to our Hotel. It was really strange, as we are so used to everywhere being smoke free in Britain that it came as quite a shock when the public were allowed to smoke in the Hotel and Bar!

Next morning.....elevenses, greedy so and so, but wild horses couldn't have stopped me.

Market was in full swing. My husband was actually bodily pushed out of the way by a very elderly gentleman......Brugge is a dream to walk around. You don't have to cling to your belongings for fear of muggings, you just watch out for physical abuse in the market place by the elderly! (Maybe a lifetime of of rubber necking tourists get you down).

There is a permanent 'Dali' Exhibition just off the Market Square, which Holly and I visited. I am not very keen on Dali's work but Holly wanted to go in because she is attending Art College. She found it very difficult to know what to draw (pics and sculptures in the exhib) in her sketch book because the bloke had a one tracked mind, if you get my drift, still there were elephants on stilts!

The vaulted ceiling of the Exhibition space was painted a stunning blue and the columns gold....very beautiful. I sat and people watched.

View from front of our Hotel.

Inside our Hotel.

View from canal trip....

View from Evening Meal! Helen of cocoaandblankets recommended the 'Passage' restaurant. Very pleased she did too, as the food and ambiance were memorable.

Next morning and a coffee in the market square before leaving to drive home.

Odd that at 10am we are sitting in this fine Market Square and by 6pm we are home, I can never get my head around it.

Thanks for ploughing through this lot with me. I hope you are not too rigid with boredom looking through someone else's holiday snaps, yawn!!!!

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