Easter in Belgium

For Easter we caught the Eurostar under the English channel to Belgium. The train takes a little under 2 hours and travels at 186 mph. We left London on Easter Saturday and planned to spend 1 night in Bruges.
Bruges is a picturesque little town surrounded buy canals and chocolate shops. The old town is full of medieval buildings one of which was our hotel. The hotel is over 500 years old although it was renovated inside last year.

We really enjoyed our first day in Bruges and spent the day wandering the streets and squares and shopping for beer and chocolate. Belgium is famous for both; and there were 47 different chocolate shops in Bruges and over 600 local varieties of Belgian Beer on offer. Saturday night I looked outside the hotel window just before bed and noticed this strange-looking white stuff falling from the sky.
It has been a long time since I have seen snow actually fall and Renee and I were quite excited.

In the morning the snow melted quickly but during the day there were repeated snow showers.
We walked around the canals and found a pub built in 1515 and grabbed a local ale. After lunch we took a boat cruise on the canals and were showered buy snow and sleet. Sunday night we headed back to Brussels to catch the Eurostar to London. Unfortunately I miscalculated the times and we missed our train which happened to be the last one of the night.

With no other option we found a nearby hotel and checked in. In the morning we tried to find a way to get back as our tickets were non-transferable. We eventually bought new one-way train tickets but decided to make the most of our day and spent the afternoon seeing the sights of Brussels. I am really glad we did as Brussels is a really nice city and has the best public square (Grand Place) that I have seen anywhere in Europe. We wondered around the lanes tasting waffles and chocolates and stopped in for some beer. More snow fell and we soaked up the experience of being in a Europe at Easter.

It was memorable, with some unexpected experiences that we made the most of, and had a wonderful time.
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