When you are staying in Knokke-Heist, it's not far away from Bruges, about 14 km. Yesterday we took the short train ride to Bruges to spend the day there. Our main reason was, however, not sightseeing. There's a jewelry shop there and I needed a new battery in my Ice watch. Chris wanted to buy a new watch. Business done, we enjoyed the rest of the day in the historical town that once was the center of the duchy of Burgundy.
For those who've never been there: there are a lot of old churches, musea, canals (like in Venice, that's why they call Bruges the Venice of the North), historical houses. And the good part is that you can see everything on foot. Of course you can take a tour on the canals or drive around in a horse-drawn coach. But these are more for the tourists. Talking about tourists, there were people around, but not yet the masses that you normally see in Bruges. One of the advantages of corona.
As the weather was still fine, we took our lunch outside on a terrace, somewhat of the beaten track. Had a very nice salad with shrimp.
And we headed back to the railway station at the end of our day, we by chance ran across people who hadn't seen in a couple of years!
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