More Bruges

We did a boat cruise around the canals. So did everyone else!

 But it was very beautiful.

A tunnel. This was the first of about 20 such but you wouldn't have minded them, Anne, as they call them bridges.

A church - I think it is St Anne's

 Here is the low bridge ......

 ..... and here is the high bridge

 Old Brugse buildings.

 Old Brugsean visitor.

 A tin horse.

 Another.

 A real horse.

 Sorry, no wooden horses.

 The two major churches we looked at were under construction and there was little to be seen (or worship). Here is Cathy looking bemused and slightly blurred.

 A slightly more focussed Cathy.

 A bit of history. The family Beurze lived here in 1267 and set up a trading and exchange house. Because of their name, it became known as the bourse. Apparently the term bank was also used here for the first time.
WARNING: There could have been a family boorse in Antwerp, or a family bause in Ghent, giving rise to the same stories. But we're in Bruges, so we'll believe them.

 A gilded house in the town square.

 A guard dog (named Giky??) wearing a bling collar.

 A local brew before dinner.

 Cathy's vegetable dish ............

 ..... and her dessert!

 The tower in the square is supposed to lean 1.5 m. I don't know how Cathy arranged this, but it looks like its toppling.