Sunday, June 15, 2008

Pics from Bruges, Belgium

Some pictures from our trip to Bruges Belgium are here. More later that Katie took with the good camera. Also, still, have some more from Amsterdam and a lot from Paris. We have some pics with us and the girls in them but will just send them to a few of you, later.

Bruges (or Brugge) is beautiful. It had been a big deal and then the harbor silted in. Ghost town until the 1800s when tourists rediscovered it. The landlady at the bed and breakfast we stayed at said Hitler deliberately didn't bomb it because of how old and beautiful it was. (He apparently had no such qualms about the rest of the country.)
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Jimmy goes to the Netherlands

This windmill was a few blocks from our hotel in Haarlem. We drank beer with the girls, ate Italian the first night and Greek the next. The partying and street noise kept me up all Saturday night. We shopped and bought bread and cheese in the market square. Toured St. Bavo's church. Posted by Picasa