If I’m not in Central Park, I must be–in Bruges!
It turns out that Bruges is beyond beautiful.
It really is magical, and in an almost overwhelming way. Beyond the clutter of chocolate shops (heaven!), horse-drawn carriages and town squares, meandering wherever your eyes and feet take you, you’re still plunging into beauty and enchanting vistas every step of your way. Canals, swans, medieval gables, exquisite masonry, slinky alleyways with views of steeples above lanterns, a trove of architectural treasures… Every night we returned to our B&B in disbelief, so impossibly beautiful is that gem, Bruges. I’ve never seen anything like it…
A Bruges Canal
Center of an Enchanted Garden of Churches (my name for it, anyway)
View Reflected in Autumn Colours on the Minnewater (Lake of Love)
Inside City Hall
Night and the Boats
Red Leaves, Green Benches and an Arcaded Amble (does Bruges even know how to not be picturesque??)
Two Swans in the Mist among the Red Bricks
Door onto the Canal in the Garden of Churches (as I call it)
Canal View (also featuring the guesthouse)
The Iridescent Moon (that turned out to be the sun)
Belfry in the Fog and the Birds Swooping About It
Stumble It!
J and I still found great pleasure in muttering and giggling our way through Colin Farrell’s line about why he doesn’t like Bruges (from Martin McDonagh’s brilliantly dark comedy, In Bruges). Check it out here–> [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgCQM05qszs&w=853&h=480
Ah! Bruges looks beautiful.
I need to watch In Bruges again, and soon.
On a McDonagh note, have you seen/read any of his plays? Just as dark, just as hilarious.
McDonagh is SO sick and so hilarious! Yep, I’ve read the Pillowman (brilliant) and the Lieutenant of Inishmore (ditto, and the cats!!) but have yet to read his others.
In terms of Bruges–you should visit for sure. You’re in Europe still, right? Go. It’s insane. You know how they keep saying it’s like a (fucking) fairytale? It SO is. It’s magical and it’s sort of impossibly itself. It’s even more beautiful than the movie shows… You should totally go
And let me know if you too end up giggling those Colin Farrell lines to yourself 
I’ve read the Pillowman and the Beauty Queen of Leenane, am so excited because the Lieutenant of Inishmore is playing in Edinburgh this spring.
Yep, still in Europe! I will have to put Bruges on my to-visit list for this spring, once the majority of my degree’s completed.
OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!! You can actually see Lieutenant of Inishmore LIVE IN A THEATER?????? OMG. You are so lucky
Go see it, see it! OMG. 
Heaven 
And then tell all about it. Heck, tell if you get tickets at all–I’ll vicariously enjoy even more! 
Do, do, do see Bruges. I had no idea it could be that beautiful
What’re the other places on your to-do list?
Love that you’re in Europe for uni!!!!
Grrr….I iz jelouz! LOL!
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Feck, Sputsie! I need to stop gaping at these photos and get to my writing.
Drats you!- said Gypsy sweetly.
Get thee to a Bruges, I say!
The plan’s just Paris and more of the UK. I don’t have much time at all for travel–and I like to see as much as I can of the place where I’m living. Master’s programmes in a year are for the insane.
Yep, live on stage. When I saw that, I immediately told my friend that we’re going to see it.
I have been to Bruges and agree it really is beautiful. And such wonderful chocolate – what else do you need?