Our final walk was to the north, and encompassed some of the prettiest, and quietest, canals we had seen. The main sight of the first section was Sint Jakobskerk. I particularly liked the two-tier tomb of Ferry De Gros who died in 1544. If you click on the photo, you can just about make out that there are two sets of praying hands on the top section. That’s De Gros with his first wife, who died in 1521, behind him. Underneath lies his second wife who died in 1530. De Gros… Read more North Bruges →
Our next Bruges walk took us south-west from Markt through the main shopping area. I confess that we stopped at The Chocolate Line in Simon Stevinplein but, other than that, we… Read more South West Bruges →
Our next walk took us away from the centre to the quieter north-east. There were a couple of museums en route which we knew would be closed, because it was… Read more North East Bruges →
Markt The first route we followed from our guidebook was Highlights of Bruges which took you to all the main sights. We walked it all, but went into very few buildings –… Read more Highlights of Bruges →
We had a wonderful time in Bruges at the end of March / beginning of April. In April, I was too busy with the A to Z Challenge to blog… Read more In Bruges →