Slow, slow start today, I only got up a little before 9.00 - goodness gracious me, what is happening to me! I took a walk in the morning looking for a shop to buy bread, but didn't find one. I did find this rather charming row of cottages.
At 11.30 we set off for
Bruges, or the outskirts of Bruges I should say. Tomorrow we want to moor in Flandria Yacht
Club where we spent some time in the spring.
Lovely place, free wi-fi, and we want to watch the F1 Monza Grand Prix,
qualifying tomorrow afternoon and the race on Sunday. Of course we will have to pay to stay there
overnight (€15), so we elected to stay at another free spot tonight.
On the way we passed my three
favourite bridges. Yes, I must admit I
am a bit anorak-ish about bridges and locks - must have been an engineer in a
previous life - or maybe it's just my father's genes coming through - he was an
engineer.
So here are pics of my three
favourite bridges.
Lift bridge at Stalhille (not much sun this morning!)
Swing bridge at Nieuwege
Cantilever bridge at
Scheepsdale
Bridge closed
Bridge closed
Bridge open ( the sun did come out from time to time!)
And here we are , moored in
the shadow of that amazing bridge.
We discovered that that there
is a large shopping complex about 500m from this mooring with an Aldi, Lidl, Colruyt, Kruitvard, Hema, a DIT store and various discount clothing and shoe shops and a lot else
beside.
We made one trip to Aldi, the
first shop we discovered, but the wine we particularly like is at Lidl so I
went on a second shopping spree while Ian did some work in the boat (i.e.
sorting out his electronics cupboard), which is when I discovered the big
shopping centre. Good thing there was
only one pair of arms/legs to carry or else we would have spent a whole lot
more money! But we might just go back
tomorrow.
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