Exploring Bruges: Visiting
Belgium’s Venice with Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
I
loved being able to take the train to Brussels, Belgium from the Gare du Nord
in Paris (France) to visit my Detroit buddy Eileen, who worked for the European
Union after finishing her master’s degree at the London School of Economics.
Eileen
took a vacation day, so we could visit the picture-perfect town of
Bruges. Bruges is full of canals with
swans. We rolled Florence around in her
baby stroller looking for restaurants and just enjoying being outside for the
day.
Bruges
is a beautiful, distant suburb of Brussels for upper management, who could do
consulting work at home.
We
eventually decided on a restaurant.
Eileen and I both had a savory, tomato soup and Italian omelets called
fritattas. We were feeling pretty good,
because we drank Duvel (Flemish for ‘Devil’) and Geuze wheat beers with our
garlic toast and omelets.
We
walked around Bruges for another three hours.
The Eglise Nôtre had a beautiful Madonna and Child sculpture in it by
Michelangelo that was a surprise find for us.
The
swans on the canals enchanted me as did the lace makers on the curving, cobbled
streets, who set up shop next to chocolate stores. I felt like I was walking through a
wonderland.
We
ate Leonidas chocolates on the way home and counted swans on the canals on the
way out of town.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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