Life at the University of Lethbridge: March 22nd, 2014

So today I went to Brugge, a city in Northern Belgium (in Flanders specifically), nicknamed "The Venice of the North". I went with my friend Franny (Toronto), Elene (Flanders), Alice (Paris), and Emil (Sweden). We took the 11 am train to Brugge. When we arrived we grabbed a couple maps at the Visitor Info booth in the train station, and we got information about the boat tours.

Then we decided to walk towards the city centre (closer to where the boat tours started) and to grab some lunch at a cafe somewhere. I say cafe lightly, we stopped at what looked like a nice cafe, but when we went in and looked at the menu, it was overly fancy. The cheap meal was a three course dinner. Starting with soup, then a choice of chicken, steak, salmon, or pork chops, and either ice cream of cream puffs for dessert. I had the chicken, and boy it was amazing!

After lunch, we bought tickets for the boat tours. It was so cool! We got to see the entire downtown from the vantage point of the rivers, streams, and locks that run through the city. It's almost impossible to describe.

We walked around the city, stopping to shop in some of the stores, looking at the brewery and the convent as well. We ran into Elene's brother as well! She's from Leuven on Erasmus to Liege (so not too far) and it was nice to meet some of her family. We also stopped to see a free harp concert.