We took a three hour drive to Brugge, Belgium Saturday morning. It's a great town with incredible architecture, beautiful canals, and great piazzas. The chocolate in Belgium is to die for, and there's beautiful hand-made lace in lots of store windows. We were there eight years ago and there's a lot more stores now. We didn't have any trouble finding a hotel without reservations, but there were lots more tourists than you'd expect for early October.
We got up Sunday morning and decided to abandon the expressway and take small roads through the Zeeland. This is mostly reclaimed land from the sea, and its tunnel...bridge..tunnel...bridge. I hate driving through tunnels (one was 3 KM long!) knowing there's water above me, but it is incredible what the Dutch have done with water control. They've added lots more coastline since the 1954 flood when they lost 8,000 people to a dyke breech at high tide.
We had lunch in Gouda. It's pronounced "How-duh" in Dutch. Through the pouring rain we looked at some great churches, had yummy cheese dishes for lunch, and found a great CD in an Afganistan store. The leaves are changing and falling here. It's getting dark earlier, and it's dark when I go to school in the morning. We're just enough farther north to make a noticeable difference. People are buying SAD lights. I guess they get really depressed in the winter here. I'm planning on going to Malta and getting some sun later this month!
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