Belgium 2018 Part 3

For the last section of Belgium I wanted to stay on the shore; European beach towns have always looks so whimsical to me and are the setting in many of the books I love. On the way to the shore we made a stop in Gent. Then headed to Knokke & Oostende to explore that part of the country. Last stop back to the airport to head home was Bruge. It was a TON of cities we went to and we stayed in three different spots overnight. I really enjoyed seeing the country that way. That is how I would chose to travel in a new country. Ty is the exact opposite though so we have to make sure we find a good balance between the two of us.

Gent

Gent is a city that got short changed by us. My family was tired of the go go go by the time we got there and just wanted a day to relax by the beach. Gent was pristine! It felt like a fairy tale could be filmed there and I was walking around in it. We walked around a castle again, had our 7th waffle of the trip, and enjoyed looking over the canals. More beautiful street music and delicious fresh Italian food. We also walked through the creepiest church with a whale carcass hanging from the ceiling, that place had the creepiest vibe.

 

Knokke & Oostende

Knokke & Oostende are different towns but since I am writing this two years late I am having a hard time remembering the difference between the two. It was nice to slow down and spend some time on the beach. I love all of the colored changing rooms they have on these beaches. Also the little sheds you can rent so you can store beach things and sit under there and have a drink. We didn’t do that but a lot of the locals were. Other than the daily waffle we mainly ate at home so in each new location I did a grocery store trip. I went into a place and it took me forever to shop, when I tried to check out I realized it was a “Costco” type place where you had to be a member. Oh man that was a doosy and everyone was so exhausted.

 

Bruge

Bruge, Bruge, Bruge. I don’t lose it in public, ever. I am an easy going person but Bruge made me angry and now I cannot even remember if it was a beautiful city or not. It started off fine, having our last waffle, #8!

 

Then it was time for me to spend my money I had saved for shopping on the trip. All of these beautiful cities and I didn’t spend a cent on shopping. I had chosen a Christmas store with beautiful hand carved wood ornaments and Christmas decor. I was going to get one for parents, grandparents, our children, etc. As soon as I entered the shop I had three women following me around with the nastiest looks on their faces. I looked around to see if anyone else in the shop was receiving this treatment. Nope just me! I reminded the girls, stand very still and don’t touch anything. They are kids that are very well behaved and know how to act in shops with fragile things. I reminded them to just point and not touch anything so they could pick out their items. These three women anytime my kids pointed at something would snap; DO NOT TOUCH! To the point that I screamed at all three of them, didn’t buy one thing, and yelled the whole way out of the store at them. Hahahahahahaha. They deserved it and thats the only time in public I have acted like that. So did we like Bruge, I don’t remember. All I remember is this awful shop Kaethe Wohlfahrt in Bruges. Their things were so beautiful I almost wanted to put on a scarf, ditch the kids, forgive them and just go buy my things.

 

Sadly the airport was an awful experience as well. Ty went off for work to Paris and I went on my way home with the girls. They were very nit picky over the girls backpacks and tried to force us to check them. They only had one each as a carry on and were not oversized. I refused and they told me that they were going to not allow us to get on the plane. So they forced us to check them making it so we had nothing on the airplane. And when I told the guy he’d better not hold back the bags to be a prick, he totally did while we were looking through the airport windows while giving me the finger. SO YES, OKAY BELGIUM WAS WONDERFUL BUT IT FELL APART AT THE END.

 

Here is a video to make up for it:

 

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