| 0730 |
Woke
Up |
|
| 0830 |
Breakfast
at B&B |
| 0930 |
Groeninge
Museum
Flemish Primitives
Audioguide included with admission
See Rick Steves Guidebook Tour
|
| 1030 |
Gruuthuse
Museum
Wealthy brewer's home
Period rooms featuring an array of artifacts from the city's history
|
| 1130 |
Church
of Our Lady
Michelangelo's Brugge Madonna (the only one of his sculptures
to leave Italy during his lifetime)
|
| 1200 |
St
Jans Hospital/Memling Museum
Old municipal hospital building
Assortment of old surgical instruments
Painting of cataract surgery being performed
St. Ursula's Shrine
6 Memling paintings
|
| 1300 |
Straffe
Hendrik Brewery
First and only tourist trap, as we made the mistake of eating
there
Disappointed by lunch, so we skipped the tour
|
| 1345 |
Returned
to B&B for siesta |
| 1600 |
Purchased
umbrella due to rain and continued our exploration of Brugge
Thankfully, the rain kept the crowds away |
| 1830 |
Dinner
at Restaurant de Koetse |
| 1930 |
Continued
wandering through backstreets until we found ourselves at the ring
canal and back at Minnewater |
| 2300 |
Sleep |