Day 12

Chocolate shop, chocolate shop and chocolate shop. That basically sums up downtown Bruges. Yes, I have learned in Belgium everyone seriously loves chocolate. I went to visit the chocolate museum today where you get to see a demonstration of how chocolate is made and get to see a life size chocolate of Barack Obama.

Not including breakfast which I will explain later the rest of the day in Bruges was great. I went to the Church Of Our Lady to visit Michelangelo's 'Madonna with child' which is one of his few works outside of Italy. Then moving on to the Panorama which is a 366 step climb (an absolute joke after the CN tower climb) to get to the top of the 83-metre tower.Which is where you get to see a great view of the downtown square. Bruges is absolutely beautiful and with all the rivers that flow through the town it is no wonder why it's considered the Venice of the North. Just a fun town to walk around for a day!

Now to my breakfast story. Almost all hostels provide a breakfast, which is just juice, bread and some cereal. Since I am on my tight budget I go every morning and eat as much bread as possible. Today was no different, I got up and walked over to the kitchen area. This hostel hosted a big group of school kids last night around the grade 7-8 age so the place was packed with 'tweens'. I got in line and grabbed my food and as I usually do found a table off to the side and sat by myself and planned my day. With in two minutes a little boy walks up to my table and sits on the end, and after him another one and another one. All of a sudden I am surrounded at a table of little dutch boys during breakfast. I look around and there must of been at least 7 other tables open, but yet they still came to sit with me. So there I was for 30min in the middle of a dutch conversation of school boys. Seriously one of the most awkward meals of my life!

Well that is Bruges seen all in one day. Tomorrow I move to Brussels!