The food is ridiculously good - Bruges, Gent and Brussels, Belgium

First stop in Belgium was Bruges. Being a bit of a fan of the black comedy movie "In Bruges" starring Colin Farrell meant this city was a must see.  Bruges had an amazing range of interesting old buildings. The food was also disgustingly delicious - Belgium waffles, fries with mayo, chocolate, garlic mussels and of course the beer!  

Mussels in Bruges

Bruges town square

Belgian chocolate shop

Bruges canals

Time for a beer...

A showcase/beercase of Belgiums finest

Bruges town square

Bruges canals at night

More canals

Canals in Ghent

We moved on to Brussels where the TomTom directed us to the middle of the city to a "campground" that didn't exist.  It did mean that we got to see a lot of the city sights by car and after navigating our way out of the CBD we ended up camping in a little village nearby called Grimbergen.  Conveniently, we stumbled across a garden music festival in Brussels in the Palace Gardens where a local band belted out a good range of covers we all know.  The park had big sculptures of all the famous Belgian foods - waffles, mussels, beer, chocolate,  brussel sprouts, fries with mayo - I didn't realise there were so many!

Waffles with 101 different toppings

Mannequin Pis - one of the big tourist attractions apparently?? (a statue of a little boy having a pee)

 Church and gardens in Brussels

Street Art - Pommes frites in the park

 Chocolate!

Brussel sprouts -Yuk (kat), yum (JJ)

The final of EURO 2012 between Spain and Italy was played live when we were in Brussels.  After Spain smashed Italy 4-0 we quickly left the Italian pizzeria we were watching the game in and found Spain supporters flooding the streets.  In the chaos we ended up heading the wrong way to our bus home (the last bus) and missed it...  (Despite a local bar owner being a good samaritan grabbing the keys to his 2012 mini and driving us towards the bus station until the swarm of Spaniards celebrating their win blocked the road).  So we ended up having to hail a taxi to get back to our campground out of town.  

The end of a long day - possibly too casual hence missing the last bus.