Hello faithful blog frequenters, and welcome to a rather difficultly written edition of the blog. Difficult not due to the content but due to the fact that this afternoon I suffered a break to my right wrist and I have a plaster cast from my fingers to my elbow- it makes typing rather time consuming!!! So please bear with me if I'm a little brief in my descriptions...
We are currently in Brugge - an absolutely beautiful city filled with character and lots of chocolate. Along with being a gorgeous city Brugge is also the last port of call for us un continental Europe , we head back to England tomorrow and then a short stop in dubai and then that's us done!!
Since my last post we have visited Berlin and also Amsterdam . Berlin was just as fabulous a place the second time around - and it was so nice to be there and have it not be minus 15 degrees! It was still chilly and snowed on us but at least I didn't fear for my toes developing frostbite! We did a very informative walking tour and then visited the story of Berlin museum, which is a bit out of the way from the other major museums but well worth the trip on the u- bahn. Included in the museum entry price is a guided tour of a nuclear bomb shelter that was built during the cold war and (fortunately) never used but has remained fully equip and operational ever since. It apparently can hold upwards of 3000 people for 14 days and reminded me of a giant concrete prison. It was very interesting to see but also pretty startling and sobering to think people believed the threat of nuclear war was so real they constructed such large bunkers " just in case". I hope it never has reason to be used.
Amsterdam was next on our travels but we lucked out a bit with the weather- it was drizzly and chilly and damp, and though we tried not to let it put a downer on our visit, it certainly lessened our enjoyment a smidge-but oh well! Can't win them all!!!
And now we are in Bruges, home to the movie of the same name ( though the locals are sick of hearing about that!) and it's lovely- no real other way to put it. The people are friendly and the city is full of quirky streets and interesting buildings. We had a Belgium beer in the oldest pub in Bruges- built in the 16th century and preserved to look as much like it would have done when it was first built as possible- very cool indeed!
And they have a pretty nice hospital here in Bruges too, which is where we spent a portion of our day.... I shall report on the finer details of how i broke my wrist at a later date, but needless to say it involved cobble stones, a trip and rather spectacular spill ( according to Adam who saw it all). The fact I landed in a puddle completely ruining my jeans only added further insult to injury!
We hung about the hostel for an hour or so and I tried to convince myself that my arm was feeling better, but I didn't believe myself so the off to the hospital we zoomed and before i knew it I was x rayed, encased in plaster, made a sling and on my way- the round trip from the hostel taking bang on 2 hours . Not bad at all! And may I just say at this point thank god for my English speaking nurse- as my Dutch is pretty non existent! Thankfully the word 'oouch!' seems to be universal !!
After my release we spent a very pleasant few hours wandering and soaking up all Bruges has to offer, followed by dinner, Belgium beer and chocolate icecream (to help with the pain) on market square- lovely!
And so draws to a close our adventure on the continent- and I got so close to making it through without major mishap ! Oh well- at least it makes things memorable and interesting !!
I hope this blog finds you safe and injury free- sorry the same can't be said for me!
Much love
Lauren the lopsided and Adam the advil
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