Belgium: Bruges A City for All Seasons

Beautiful gabled buildings in The Markt, Bruges

What’s not to love about Belgium? It has beautiful countryside, beer and food (oh yes, the food). Maybe that’s one of the reasons I have visited half a dozen times. Four of those times we have visited the lovely fairy tale medieval city of Bruges which sits in the province of West Flanders in the northwest of Belgium. Mr ESLT and I have wandered the picturesque streets both in summer and winter months and found a number of interesting and fun things to do  and see at both times of the year. There are excellent hotels, guest houses and B&Bs in central Bruges which makes this city the perfect place for a European mini break.

Denmark: Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen

‘Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen. Friendly old girl of a town’ and how very wonderful she is. I really didn’t know what to expect of Denmark’s capital but what I did find was very pleasant. Mr ESLT and I love to spend our birthdays exploring a city and creating memories so for Mr ESLT’s recent birthday we travelled to Copenhagen. The first thing I loved about this city was the fact that it only took 90 to get there from the UK, I hate flying you see but with this flight we had just reached cruising altitude when we started making our decent into the very modern Copenhagen airport. I think we landed at the furthest gate from the exit, so it was a good job our carry-ons are on wheels and we had a monster walk to get out of the place.

Amalienborg, the Danish Royal Family’s winter home in Copenhagen

Denmark: Visit Carlsberg Brewery, Copenhagen

I love a brewery tour, maybe because I love beer. Yes it’s not lady like and yes it’s full of calories but how nice is a cold refreshing beer on a hot sunny day? So when conducting my research into things to do in Copenhagen I was over the moon to find that there’s the Carlsberg Brewery there and they offer tours. Having been on a number of brewery tours – Guinness in Dublin, Heineken in Amsterdam, Castlemaine XXXX in Brisbane the tickets were booked for this brewery tour before you could say ‘bottle of beer’! Even better was the price which was roughly £10 each and included two pots of Carlsberg each either during or after your self guided tour.

Carlsberg sign at Visit Carlsberg in Copenhagen, Denmark