Knokke is a summer resort town and as the weather was very cold (wavering from -1 to +1C) with a cold wind, there were not many tourists out ambling along the ample seaside walk. We found a parking place and walked along the sea until we were quite frozen. We stopped for lunch at the Cafe Leffe. This cafe is part of a chain. There is one around the corner in 'T Zant square. Bill of course had a Leffe (beer). I had a warm wine and we both had the dagshotel (lunch special)-a nice sausage-like meatloaf with sauce and rough mashed potatoes with leeks and kale--very tasty. The cafe was on the edge of a square that had 2 unusual sculptures of noses.
Children were racing rented motorized and pedal-power small vehicles around in the square while their parents sipped beer or wine in the surrounding cafes.While we were in the cafe we noticed that it had started to spit snow. So here is a picture of me freezing with a skiff of snow sticking to the tiles at the edge of the North Sea.
Jon and Cyndi said it also snowed a bit here in Brugge. Not enough to really call it a snowfall. So Brugge continues its record of 3 years without a substantial snowfall.
The Boulder Baker's are off to Dover to check out a bit of the UK for a few days.
We will be skipping out of Brugge earlier than originally planned as we are leaving Monday the 7th for Amsterdam. We will stay in The Netherlands for 10 days and then head toward Italy, winding up in the hotel we had booked near Venice for after Brugge.
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