Combine a walking tour of one of Europe's best-preserved medieval cities with a half day to explore on your own. You will travel southeast through the Flemish countryside to Bruges as you leave Zeebrugge. You will visit Bruges' cobbled streets, centuries-old buildings and canals, all hallmarks of this medieval city. Your guided walk takes you past the marketplace with its guildhalls, the Belfry, the Town Hall and the Gothic Chapel of the Holy Blood. A highlight of your visit to Bruges is an approximately thirty-minute boat ride along Bruges' romantic canals. You'll also have the opportunity to take photos of the Church of Our Lady, a 13th century church which is home to an array of art treasures including Michelangelo's white marble Madonna and Child.
This city of Bruges is beautiful!!!
Sculptures of Bruges
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” is misattributed to Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Franklin did write this, in a 1779 letter to André Morellet: “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.” Franklin loved wine more than he loved beer.
The time to spend money....
The Lock gates closing behind us
Departure time.
Our bus in the port of Hull.
I couldn't draw when the bus drive, all time there is shake me there.......
St. George Hall. 15 minutes till our bus, it's the time for a cigarette and drawing. a pencil 6B.
Two Irish hit-men - rookie Ray (Colin Farrell) and seasoned Ken (Brendan Gleeson)—have been sent to Bruges, Belgium to cool their heels after a botched job by Ray has claimed an innocent bystander.
indieWIRE: Why Bruges?
Martin McDonagh: I just went there on a weekend trip from London. Didn’t know anything about it at all. I was struck by how beautiful it was: unchanged and medieval and gothic—otherworldly. And I wondered why it hadn’t been captured on film before, it was so distinctive. In the middle of the second day, after I’d gone to every museum and church, I was bored and just wanted to get drunk and get out of the place. But that kind of became two characters in my head : the culture-loving geek and the drunken slut.
So I just let those characters speak to me in my head and thought, why would those two people be in a town like Bruges when they don’t want to be? And that’s when the whole idea of them being hit men came up, and that they’re escaping a horrific job that went wrong. And they’d been sent there to await orders. Bruges wrote itself into it. No other place would have served the same purpose. Paris,Venice, Prague are all beautiful, but they didn’t have the both the strange quirkiness and unknown quantity of Bruges.
