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Gravensteen Castle

Between Bruges and Brussels is Ghent and Gravensteen Castle. The Dutch name means Castle of the Counts.  Inside was a self guided tour with some light history of the middle ages. Some of the text was in English while some…

Board Games in Cologne

Devin and I have a hobby addiction: Board Games. Tonight we met 3 people from the meetup group Cologne On Board to play board games at a local restaurant We found our meetup peoples at Café Kandinsky and were introduced…

Quasimodo Time

The Bruges’ Belfort has 366 steps and we climbed all of them.  The view from the top was worth it. The tower had markings of arrows pointing to the different towns and their distance away. While at the top the…

In Bruges: Part 3

There were really only 2 things I wanted to do in Bruges and we saved them for last: a climb to the top of the bell tower and a boat cruise of the canal. The bell tower is so freaking…