Day 4 Sept 7 - Bruges, Belgium

Today we arrived in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium. We arranged for a walking tour/canal cruise in Bruges. According to the brochures, Bruges is one of Europe's best-preserved medieval cities. They call the city the "Venice of the North"

The little frog here on the statue is actually the sculptors signature.

He added a little frog to all of his pieces.

A sample of the roads in Bruges. Not all had this design but they were made out of similar stone.

The Basilica of the Holy Blood

The Provinciaal hof

Church of Our Lady Tower (it was hard to get much of it to fit in the picture)

Inside the Church of Our Lady (a 13th century church)

The pulpit that the priest would use to preach to the congregation

Michelangelo's white marble "Madonna and Child" in the Church of Our Lady

I liked seeing all of the different gargoyles. There will be more pictures from other cities

The city had started a renovation project to clean up the surface of this church.

typical Bruges street

I couldn't believe how they would let people walk right through the construction site as if it wasn't there. It was as crowded with people as every other street.

Canal cruise. These little boats were the boats we rode in up the canal.

A little too small for my comfort. It was awesome to get the view of the city from the canal.

You can't tell from this picture but this dog's window is overhanging the canal.

As we passed by he just picked up his head, looked at us, and then just put his head back on his pillow.

I know I shouldn't include this picture, but I found it funny. We were sitting here in the shade taking a break and kept seeing all of these people heading to the public restrooms. They would go in and then end up coming out and searching for money. You actually had to pay .30 Euros to use the public restrooms. They had an attendant there to take your money before they would let you in.

This is were we got our Belgium waffles. I couldn't resist getting Belgium waffles in Belgium.

We actually got some chocolate while we were shopping as well.