Monday, November 27, 2006

Bruges tourist for a day

Yesterday I escaped from my books for most of the day while Frances came to visit. STTers among you need no introduction - for the rest of you, Fran is a Cambridge friend - she did languages at St John's and got involved with Selwyn Touring Theatre in 2nd and 4th years. She's working in Brussels as a journalist and when we found out we were both in wonderful Belgium, we decided we had to meet up. After quite a lot of organising, we finally decided on yesterday. We went for lunch in the pitahuis restaurant, which was really good. After that we wandered around, looking at the Christmas market, the ice rink, just generally being tourists. We visited the cathedral (I had never been there either) and the Hallen, where there was another indoor Christmas market. We went for some very good beer, first to De Garre and then to Republik, and we even bought some chocolate butter truffles and ate too many of them. It was a great break from revision and great to catch up with an old friend.

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