March 5th - Sadly one week has come and gone and we will be leaving for the states very soon. Back to reality, is going to hurt. Oh well off to enjoy our day. We are going to grab a quick breakfast then catch the bus to the train station, and the train to Oostend. Should be a blustery day at the beach.
We arrive a short 15 minutes after take off from the Brugge station. We wander over to the sea and walk under the cloudy skies. It is pretty impressive to see the North Sea, and walk along the water. We wander into town, and find a few pleins to check out, one named after Presdident Kennedy, which seems rather random. We are a little underimpressed with this town. We hoped for a seaside vilage full of character, what we found was that wartime destruction and post war improvements have taken most of what we had hoped to see and replaced it with charcter free modern hotels and apartment buildings.
We find Botteltje, a dark atmospheric beer bar with more beers than we could have imagined or hoped for. We enjoy a snack of olives and garlic bread, which goes quite nicely with the Hopus for Trish and the Westmalle and a Chapeau Winter Gueze for Chris. Very Sour Beer.
We chat with a local old fellow. What a character, he can't wait to tell us the story of him drinking 23 of the Westmalles you know one more and you have a case, wow I needed to take a taxi home. We can't imagine the thought, it sounds impossible.
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