Ok don’t get too worried by the title…
- We were the scammers
- Only kind of…
- We didn’t mean it I swear
No really I swear!
The scene of our scamming starts in our Bedroom in Paris after a late night Maze Runner watch. I received a strange charge on my card. Oh crap, how have I been scammed in the first proper day of my interailing? I check the location “Paris” I haven’t spent €45 anywhere in Paris. I alert Monzo that it’s a suspected scam. They instantly refund me the money and cancel my card. The next morning when I wake up I notice an Email about 10 minutes after the strange charge. It’s our hostel in Bruges sending me a receipt. Okay in my defence the hostel had said that it was pay at the property! I had sacrificed my Monzo card for nothing… Better safe than sorry I guess?
After an early rise and a journey over a draw bridge and moat. We arrive at our hostel, no complaints from them (yay free hostel!).
We spent the rest of the day exploring Bruges. First stop? Waffles of course! When in Rome… well Belgium? After a very indulgent and tasty waffle, we get up to leave and start happily skipping down the road to our next destination. But someone is chasing after us, who could it be? Ohhh the waiter with the cheque. We had been gossiping and chatting so much that we had forgotten to pay. Obviously we went back and paid and he was very understanding, narrowly avoiding scamming yet another unsuspecting Belgian.
We spent the rest of the day exploring Bruges. Most notably the Basilica of the Holy Blood. Say what you want about Catholics but they know how to do a relic. The Church or in this case Basilica was beautiful on its own but to see the relic itself was truly humbling. Believed to be the blood of Jesus himself, it is housed in an ornate glass tube. Brought from the Holy Land by Thierry, Count of Flanders, and collected by Joseph of Arimathea, it is now protected by a very strict Belgian security man. He made sure that no one skipped the line and the strict silence was observed in the area where the relic was on Display. What a blessing to be in the presence of our Lord and Saviour’s blood.
After exploring the city some more we had a rather underwhelming dinner. Maybe it’s my general distaste for chips or maybe the Frites are just not worth the hype… After all they’re just chips!
The next day we had a spot of breakfast next to a windmill and two rather friendly ducks. I mean really they were really rather friendly. I think if I had the confidence I could have hand fed them. After saying goodbye to our new best friends Donald and Daisy, we headed back into town to grab some of that famous Belgian chocolate and I can confirm that it was in fact worth the hype!
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