Part II

Our second day in Belgium we decided to rent a car...the cheapest and in order to do so we spent half day in Gare du Midi and about 30 E on phones to Bank Transilvania from Romania because they made a mistake with my identification card no. Lovely! While the rental-papers were done we took a tram and a tricky walk to Atomium...too late to catch the last tourist visit. We weren't too upset, anyway after the car experience, life seemed suddenly very-very beautiful even when a Museum door was being shut in our nose! And Bro told me that it's not worth to pay the money to go up!

After making a functionaire's (from The Romanian Bank) life miserable on the phone...I can give you a helping hand on that one anytime :) we got the keys to this little nervous, four-wheels creature (and looked for it in the company's four stores garage for half an our...imagine that we finally realized which was our car only when we used the remote from the car-keys...just like in the movies) :
Citroens can be very confortable for two and quite competitive on the highway... Peter's personal record 180 km/h...imagine my face at this speed!
The third day we left for Bruges.

We've heard is one of the most beautiful and romantic city in Belgium and so it is.

Calm, with small sinuous streets, old buildings, many churches, happy people, civilized tourists and quiet places. I liked the small diverse shops...like family business

WE took a boat trip through the city's old canals with a four-language guide speaker very interested in real estate business in Romania (I got his references to become partners, sic! :)

Then we wandered through the small narrow streets (convinced that we could not get lost in the medieval town..and we didn't). We visited the Cathedral and surprisingly found this masterpiece of Michelangelo:

I am convinced that there are not too many Romanian tourists in Bruges...how did I conclude that? There are plenty of swans along the canals and they are all healthy and happy not to become anyone's dinner:
And when by mistake one particular Romanian MARRIED man reaches Bruges look what he's doing:

Bruges is one-to-see Belgian town highly recommended.
On the third day in the evening we stopped for Ostende, one super North Sea Belgian port:

We bathe our feet into the sea...brrr! very cold. I wonder when do people really bathe in the North Sea during the whole year? I think never-ever. It is full of yachts some very luxurious and tempting.. we only looked didn't touch!




At last we bought some souvenirs and were convinced to eat something specific...even if it moved on our plates! :) Rather buying something like this
and break out teeth...we preferred a soup and some jellyfish or smth :). The only soup we could find at the restaurants was the fish soup. We were hungry so we ate it all together with the oysters, ink fish and sepia which is here on somebody's spoon:

I really like it! Peter says it was a great investment that soup because three days after he could still feel it on his stomach ;)

And this is how it ended our day-3 trip. Netherlands here we comeeeeee!