Day 5 Brugge to Reims

Today we see Belgium. We started out in Brugge, a beautiful medevial town. It was very cold and windy, but we walked around the town for quite awhile. Bill and Tom said that Geoff needs to find a filly over here in Brugge. According to them, Brugge has the hardest working, best looking women they have ever seen.






Our next stop was Ghent. We visited the Gravensteen Castle. It is a very old medevial castle. Tom and Bill were very impressed. Tom saw wheel lock and flint lock guns that he has never seen before.



Bill found the indoor plumbing and decided to take the Royal Dump. Here he is on his throne.



We stopped for lunch in Asse, Belgium at a very local restaurant, The Bistro Parnasse. The menu was all in Flemish so the cook/owner came out and explained all the dishes for us. Tom had Fazant (pheasant) op Barantse Wijze. The cook/owner was so nice and we had such a great time. Tom had his picture taken with him.



Tom's Fazant and the vegetable is Witloof. The cook insisted on bringing one of the Witloof out for us to see. We still have no idea what it is.



Tom and his new friend. He wanted Lisa to try to get the recipe. She said no.



After we left Ghent, we headed for Brussels. We got very lost and traffic was horrendous. We couldn't find the old town square, and then we couldn't find our way out of town. We gave up and headed to our hotel in Reims.



We stopped at a local grocery and picked up some wine. We had seen many signs for something called Calvados. We did not know what is was, and we found some at the grocery store. It turns out it is Apple Schnapps and is 40 proof. No open flames allowed anywhere near it. We made it to our hotel around 9:30 and got together to drink our wine and do our blog. We got to talking and laughing. There was a knock on the door and apparently we were too loud. The desk clerk had to come up and tell the old folks to keep it down. More tomorrow,