Brussels/Brugge

So far the group has taken day trips to Brussels and Brugge. We went to Brugge on the Day of Ascension. We toured De halve Maan (the Half Moon) brewery where we learned tat the number of breweries around Brugge had dropped from 700 to 30 in 30ish years. We tried one of their newer (award winning) brews: Brugge Zot (the crazy person from Brugge), which was pretty tastey. After eating waffles and looking at old buildings/canals (I can't seem to escape hydrology anywhere), we staked out a place to watch the parade. We had heard that people dressed in medieval garb and followed a vial of Christ's blood (a relic from the crusades) around. We didn't know that we were towards the end of the parade route or that it as going to reenact basically the whole Bible. During the hour and a half we spent waiting for it to start, we sat on the curb and played travel scrabble. Once the parade started, we were trapped on our corner for the 3 hours that it lasted, which is pretty long for a parade, but there were like 7 different Jesuses (Jesi?) and several miricles so that kept things interesting…almost.

In Brussels, we pretty much walked around, looking for old tall structures. We found our way though Africatown, which was really cool. If I spoke French, I would have ordered some African food (most of it looked similar to what we had in Ghana) because I miss me some fufuo.