Our Day Trip to Bruges

Well I knew Bruges was going to be a pretty place but I had no idea I would fall in love with her immediately, drop to one knee and ask her to marry me..  Yes…..Bruges is just that beautiful you can’t help but want to stay with her forever and not share her with anyone else.   And before you say something like “you can’t marry a town Lisa”, you can marry bridges and trees and other things like that so why not a whole town hey.  If you think I’ve gone mad well that happened years ago I haven’t because it’s a real thing, google it, crazy people marry inanimate objects all the time.  Anyway, I’m jumping ahead, back to the beginning…..

We woke up early but since we didn’t need to rush out the door today we moved into go slow mode and it felt great.  We have certainly been busy since we started this trip so it was delicious to ease into the day.

Once we were ready we headed to Grand Place for our Walking Tour.  You know I was having major “non excitement” about Brussels so far if you read yesterdays update.  I was hoping today’s tour was going to show me the wonders that Brussels had to offer and win me over.  Hopes are of course for losers because mine were soon dashed.

Today started off quite cold, brrrr which of course we loved hahaha.  We are suckers for a crisp beginning to the day. We were both super excited for this morning because we were booked to go and see something we have always wanted to see…..

Anne Frank’s House

I remember reading this book in high school and being so moved by how incredibly well Anne wrote and just stunned at the horror her and her family endured hiding in that hidden annexe of the house for 2 years.  Can you imagine?  I’m not sure whether the book was a class novel or whether just everyone my age read it but Husband and I both agreed going to Anne Frank’s House was a must do!

Ahhhh Jet Lag you old Mother Chuffer.  Awake since 3am – ugh!!! Not loving that.

But my friends there is not time to complain – I threw down a bowl of bitchy for breakfast with a sprinkling of yay we are off to explore and we are out the door.

Today we are off adventuring outside of Amsterdam to visit the cutest place called Zaanse Schans.  I’ve been drooling over this place on travel blogs for years and I’m so thrilled to finally go there.  It’s a little dutch township about 20 mins away on the train with quaint houses and windmills and pretty much how I imagine an old town in the Netherlands to look.