Day twenty-four 24th June
Shame but this morning we had to leave and head to the ferry and home but we did have all day to visit Bruges. Straight onto the N466 to the A10 and off towards Bruges, missed the turning we wanted into Bruges and wasted time getting back to where we wanted to be. We parked up a the Carrefour we used last year, we intended to have lunch there but in the end just bought the ingredients for sandwiches, and lots of beer. Next, also like last year, we parked up further down the road in-between Lidl and Aldi and got more beer and wine.
Then we parked up on the ring road and walked in to the centre, through he Kruispoort (Cross city gate), for the rest of the afternoon.
We had a very good walk and even tried to get onto one of the many canal boat trips but by then it was too late. Eventually we had to make our way back to the van and then on to Zeebrugge, we left the centre by the Gentpoort (Ghent Gate) but had to wait for a barge to pass along the canal first. On the way back to the van we passed a type of vertical lift bridge I had never seen before, the main spans, two large cylinders, turned to wind up the footpath deck beneath (see the photo).
We had to fill up with fuel and make a final stop for beer in Blankenberge, where we usually go on the way home. So from the R30 (the ring road) we headed anticlockwise to the N371 and N31 to Zeebrugge and then back along the coast to the supermarket (we could have just stayed on the N371 but hadn't checked the map properly).
Once settled in on the ferry I went on deck to take photos in the port, then back in the cabin, we watched a film on the laptop, had sandwiches and beers before going to the bar for the rest of the evening.
As last year, I even bought beer and wine from duty free, not like we didn't already have enough but they were on special offer.
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