On Friday we left the Murphy's house at about 9:00 and got a lift to the Belfast airport. We then took a plane to Leeds which took about an hour.
Once we got to Hull we took a taxi to the boat docks and took a P&O ferry into Belgium! We got onto the ferry about 5:00 and it docked at 9:30 the next morning. Our cabin was small but very comfy. It was a really nice ferry with a cafe, restaurant and movie theatre!
When we arrived Saturday morning we took a bus from Zeebrugge to Brugge. We dropped off our stuff at this small cute B&B and then went sightseeing.
There are so many beautiful churches in Brugge. We went in three but the one we were planning on going in, The Church of our Lady, was closed due to renovations.
There are so many beautiful canals here with little bridges going over with ducks and swans swimming down!
We took a boat tour down the canals and it was so beautiful!
We also got so see one of their windmills! It might not look very high up but it was and those stairs were really steep and narrow. It also didn't help that I'm scared of heights.
It is even more beautiful here since it's fall and all the leaves are falling and the weather is perfect! We got to eat at Brugge's oldest pub which was established in 1515! After supper we walked back to our hotel which took about 45 minutes and it was so nice now that most of the tourists went to bed and all the canals had calmed down.
So on Sunday we took a train from Brugge to Brussels. We were then going to take a train from Brussels to Frankfurt but our first train was late so we missed our second train. We were supposed to leave Brussels at 10:30 but the next train we could trade in our tickets for was at 2:30. But then there was another problem, if we took the 2:30 train to Frankfurt the car rental agency where we had a car waiting would be closed.
So thankfully we were finally able to switch our car reservations to one at the airport were our train stopped at! For our second train we had reserved seats all together with a table in between since it was a 3 1/2 hour trip but since we traded our tickets and it was already completely full we had to just sit wherever. Most of the time we had seats together but for the rest of it we were standing in aisles because we gave our seats to an elderly couple. All of the aisles were packed! But after a stressful time we arrived in Frankfurt! We got our car and drove to Bacharach were we would be staying in a B&B!
So this all happened on Sunday and it's already Tuesday but Sarah will do a post soonish to let all you guys know what happened on Monday and Tuesday. Until then aufwiedersehn!
