Ancient home of the rich. All silted in.
Pompous palaces
Boats full of tourists
Sugar in the air
Friendly dogs
Beautifully cooked steaks
Nighttime magic to close the trip
Champagne in a Kir Royale by the fire.
Fin.
Climbing the Tower in Bruges
March 4, 2026
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If you’ve seen In Bruges, you’ve seen this tower. And you’ve thought about falling off of it.
In fact, you need to see In Bruges before you come to town.
The climb up is 366 steps and was not design with American litigation lawyers in mind.
The carilon is loud.
And very mechanical
Yonder lichtervelde.
Yonder Leuven.
Formidable guards
Tourists crawling like ants high on sugar
A panorama
If you have a friend who lives in Lichtervelde and has never been up the tower you can drag him up.
A Boat in Bruges
March 4, 2026
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Some of us have been to bruge 4 or 5 times. Others 10,000. Still others once. But we all got on the same boat, and it was great.
We found an opportunistic window of blue sky.
Swans
Churches are a thing. Were a thing.
Our hotel and the famous tower
Tourism is fun!
