Brugge & France

It's a good thing we didn't stay in Brugge any longer or else I may have just ended up taking permanent residence. It is the cutest most quaint little European town. It has the appeal of Venice with it's canals, the charm of Prague with the city square and the amazing treats of France with chocolate shops, waffles & frites everywhere you turn. Combine those traits all together & you get Brugge!

We were only there about a day but as our professor said it was kind of like "our vacation spot" (although I feel like we are on one constant vacation ha) But we had time to just roam the cobblestone streets, go on a boat ride, tour the chocolate museum & walk up 360 stairs to the top of the Belfry tower.

We then went to Iep where we did a great tour of the Flanders Museum learning more about World War 1 where the neutral territory of trench warfare took place in Belgium.

Wednesday we went to to Amiens France where we went to the largest cathedral in all of Europe! If you think notre dame is great-this is even bigger & better (but unfortunately it doesn't have the bell tower & Quasimodo appeal)

Our last but not least stop on our France adventure was the Sommes battlefield. We had a chance to walk around the trench warfare sites right where the fighting between France, Britain and Germany took place. The battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the first World War & where the British suffered the most casualties. My appreciation of World War 1 greatly increased being right where this horrific battle took place. I tried to imagine the fighting & lives lost at the time on that exact field we were walking on which made it come much more to life.

Well that concludes our group traveling adventures of "March Madness." It will be nice to be back in our home of London for the remainder of my time here. We have a list of things we need to make sure we do before leaving so the fun & adventures will continue..as they did with riding bikes in Hyde Park with our shades on today after our religion class!