Sunday, July 01, 2007

Europe Day 31 - 32:: Edited July 1

Day 31.
Brugge. Trained from antwerp and bussed to the hostel which is in the old city area. The hostel is one of the more known ones in all of Belgium and was pretty big, even having its own bar and restaurant. We walked around town to check it out. It was pretty cold and no sun. Got some frenchfries from one of two "competeing" stands in the main square. I guess these are famous fry stands that get auctioned off every 7 years to a new company...no idea why. We shopped for a bit and found this random art exhibit with an amazing artist (probably one of my most favourite artists ever now), named Arthure. I love his type of paintings, really abstract yet brings feeling. We headed back to the hostel for supper and watched a belgium soccer game in the pub as i tried some belgium beers. They have this cherry beer that is really good.

Day 32.
We wandered around brugge today, walked to the top of the Belfry (big bell tower), which was about 300 stairs. It had a great view but sucked when the bells started ringing as we were beside them...very loud.
We found a candy store that actually stretched the candy infront of you, and was quite amazing to watch. Got some great kiwi candy there (that actually looks like slices of kiwi!) We then headed to this church that supposedly has a vial of Christ's blood that was brought over from the middle east by the crusading knights. People can actually pay to pray with the blood (which is watched over by two creepy looking women).

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