Brugge Sweet Brugge

Southwell Hall organised a day trip to Brugge last Saturday(14/10/06). Apparently they could not fill up enough of the available spaces, so Willis Jackson Hall tagged along. Of course, I went. Otherwise I wouldn't be spending time writing about it.

Quite worth it actually. 15 pounds for the whole thing. The "Team Singapore" consisted of Lap Hang, Clinton, Cheryl, Jinyang, Yunqin, Kenneth and I. We left at 0530h on a comfy double-decked coach. Reached Dover port at around 8. Boarded the ferry and arrived at Brugge at around 1200h. Spent 4.5hrs there. Came back more or less the same way except that we stopped at a french HYPERMART where we did some shopping.

For those not familiar with Brugge, its a small town in Belgium, the home of yummy CHOCOLATES!!!!!!!!!

Man, did we shop that day. We bought kilograms of chocolate. It was really good.

Brugge on the whole is an old small town. The streets are still "horse-worthy". There you will see lots of horse drawn carriages ferrying tourists all over the place. Very nice until you smell the horse shit that is. Haha!

There are also numerous old churches or church related buildings. We went into one of them and saw sculptures and paintings dating back century. The church had a very serene and solemn feel to it. I felt uncannily peaceful inside.

Anyway for Lap Hang and I, we only had 2 main objectives. Chocolates and alcohol. haha! I'm telling you guys, alcohol is dirt cheap. Chivas was going for 2 for 30 pounds on the ferry and roughly the same price in Brugge. That's like what, 45 sing dollars per bottle? Can you imagine? We were totally bowled over by the prices.

Something quite funny did happen in Brugge. On our way back to the coach, we got lost. So we were like roaming the streets and exploring. Some of us thought that it was quite "sian" getting lost. Frankly speaking, I thought it was great. I mean part of touring is about getting lost and finding your way again. I personally quite enjoyed having a close look at the small streets of Brugge and how Brugge REALLY looked like, not the way tourists are supposed to see it.

Now, here's basically how the list of our "spoils of war" looks like:
1. 1 kg of chocolates per person for Lap Hang, Clinton and I
2. 1 kg of chocolates for Zhong Han
3. 1 bottle of Jenever(Belgium's local liquer. Haven't tasted it yet. Will review it on the blog when I taste it.) for Zhong Han
4. 1 bottle of Jenever for myself
5. At the Hypermart, 1 bottle of whiskey (not as good as the green label. realised it last night with Zhong Han. Haha!) for me, 1 champagne for Lap Hang
6. On the ferry, 1 bottle of Bailey's for me and 1 bottle of Archer's for Lap Hang. (Irresistable prices)
7. 1 shot glass with the landmarks of Brugge on it. ( I have decided to collect shot glass of the places I've been to)

Haha! sounds like more liquer than chocolates right? True. Haha!