Belgium

Brugge is absolutely a picture out of a fairly tale book. With narrow cobblestone streets, a moat-like canal hugging the historic center of the city, a belford tower, and a medieval castle in the center market place you cannot get any closer to the quintessential classic European city. Although travel books chalk this city's sentiment up to contrived, I absolutely loved it. Brent, Megan, and I took a guided historic walk around the city, and all of the intricate details of how the city and nation of Belgium were formed were brought to light. This city has a very unique style of architecture, and a deserved pride in its unique mixture of different typologies of buildings. We had a delicious dinner which we collected from a fancy bread and cheese store in the market, and a chocolate shop located just off of the market square where they prepare all of the small shop's chocolates in their downstairs kitchen. The canals in this city ar no longer connected to the port, but their pressence, as well as the windmills around the perimeter are a essential piece to this town. The day and a half I spent there was just what the doctor ordered after my disappointments with Amsterdam.