Archive for September, 2010
1 Year Wedding Anniversary Trip to Brugges
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 | Events, Holidays | No Comments
Well can anyone actually believe it has been a whole year since our fabulous wedding day?
My amazing husband devised a plan to organise a surprise trip to Brugges – somewhere I knew little about and had never been before.
It would have remained a total surprise if the tube workers had not been strike and we had to devise a different route to get to Kings Cross.
We set off at some ungodly hour to make it to Cockfosters to get the tube to Kings Cross to catch the Eurostar.
We made it in good time despite having to take various other forms of transport across London at 6am as the underground workers were striking.
Once we got to Brugges (only 2 and a half hours by EuroStar to Brussels then 45 mins on the train) I was immediately take with the architecture, modern and cosmopolitan near the train station and chocolate box fairy tale in the City Centre.
I had plenty of opportunity to see the architecture as Mr Lewis (or Copernicus as I now affectionately call him) could get lost down a one way street! – so plenty of wondering aimlessly trying to find our hotel.
They say marriage teaches you a lot about your other half…well this trip I learnt that my husband can not read a map for toffee!
However it was worth the wait. We stayed at the Pand Hotel – a small romantic 4 star hotel decorated in a Parisian Boutique style, simply gorgeous! (and we found out later from talking to a couple from Yorkshire it is the hotel where Michael Winner stays…GET US lol)
As well as the stunning accommodation hubby had organised champaign breakfast and a junior suite for us – wow!..and a meal at the exquisite Maria van Bourgondië resturant.
I highly recommend the Pand Hotel if anyone is on their way to Brugges anytime soon, the staff are amazing and the hotel is stunning!
Brugges itself is very pretty, with canals and parks a lot is pedestrianised so you don’t get the hussle and bussel and of course the buildings are stunning, like out of a story book. The best way to see it all in my opinion is via a horse and cart tour. This will set you back about 30euros but worth it!
The food in Brugges is fantastic – mainly seafood, mussles etc.. but also good old fashioned steaks and Italian dishes. You will pay about 25euros a head so a bit more than in the UK but it is all cooked to perfection.
The local tipple is beer – Zot to be exact, brewed in their very own Half Moon brewery 
which you can take a tour of for 5euro with a free pint at the end, bargain! We didn’t try the 11% alcohol version but still went down very nicely.
And of course there is the chocolate, Belgium chocolate! amazing! All in all a really nice trip and thank you to my wonderful fella for organising it all, can’t wait to see what he has in mind for our 2nd anniversary lol x x x
See our photos of Bruges here
Ads
Pages
Recent Posts
Businesses
Social
