Today we hired bikes and rode around seeing most of the sites of Bruges. Firstly we rode up the river and past the old style windmills, then we went into the town centre (called the Markt), the buildings are set as they were in medieval times, stone cobble streets, beautiful tall buildings and loads of church buildings with chiming clocks, although most of the clocks are so old that they take forever to chime through the time. They also have about 10 horse and ca...

Today we left Paris and headed to Bruges on our first stop on our busabout tour. We arrived at around 12:30pm and made our way up to our camping site (Camp Memling) which is situated about 20 minutes walk out of town, we found the place with ease and checked in and pitched our tiny purple 2 man tent straight away. We then walked down to the shops to find something to have for dinner and while we were doing that it started pouring rain, just when we would think ...

Wed 13 May 2009 Another beautiful day in Paris. We caught the Metro into the 1st district, we then walked to the Louvre, where we spent about 3 hours walking around, we selected a few areas we really wanted to see (If you look at every single piece in the Louvre with no toilet or food breaks it will take you 64 days to see everything). We saw the Greek, Roman and Egyptian sections, the Venus De Milo, Mona Lisa and many other less famous pieces of art. We the...

We had a huge day of sight seeing today.We caught the metro (underground train) into district 1 (the city centre) to go on a walkig tour, the guide Jack took us through the city and showed us most of the tourist attractions. We started at St Michel's fountain and headed to the nearby police precinct, which was the Nazi headquarters during WWII, There are still bullet holes in the wall from where the French resistance fired at the building, these are the only mar...

Arrival to Paris We caught the Eurostar from St Pancras train station, London to Paris De Nord this morning at 6:55am, it took just over 3 hours to commute. I didn't even see the English Channel Tunnel as I was sleeping and it only took 20 minutes to pass through, Jason said I didn't miss much! We were not in the train station 5 minutes before a begger came up trying to scam us for money. once we left the train station, we walked 20 minutes to get to St Chris...