The Trip to Brugge

Saturday was a misty rainy day in Edinburgh. We checked out and took the local bus to near the bus station where we stashed our luggage in a locker until time for the bus to the ferry at 14:15. We walked up to the Nelson Memorial and around in the indoor Mall next to the train station. We also caught the Blake exhibit in the National Gallery.

Me at the Nelson Memorial. The rain was warm and misty.

I tripped and fell as we were boarding the ferry. There was an unmarked lip from the boarding ramp as it turned a corner onto the car ramp and I just did a header. William took lots of pictures.

Wounds and Sunset

The trip was otherwise uneventful and we took a bus and then a taxi to the Hotel Leopold. We went out walking this afternoon and tried to get familiar with some of the streets around Beenhouwersstraat. Next to the house is an old chapel that has been turned into a gallery and a house that was having a children’s party downstairs. We walked around the nearby park that has a bit of child’s play equipment. Some children were playing and a little boy pointed at Bill and said opa (grandpa pronounced oopa). His mom corrected him, but I thought it was cute. We found the bank in the Markt and looked around the square.

Markt Square at Brugge, our new home