Anyway, I have just got back from Bruges which is a very pleasant place, but don't believe anyone who tells you it's very small and so everywhere is within walking distance. Everywhere is within walking distance if you don't mind hiking for 20-odd bloody miles a day.

Also the waiters are uniformly weird. As in, "Sorry, we don't have tapwater", not to mention "We only serve chips if you are having steak". And you keep getting run over by horse-drawn carriages and manic cyclists and both of these sets of people drive on the wrong side of the road. Also, Belgians don't eat vegetables, ever.

Did you see anyone wearing one glove?

No, no-one had only one glove, but I did see the most immensely fat lady I've ever seen, wearing a very short dress. If she'd been wearing one glove, that would have been her largest garment and would have hidden more of her than the dress did.

I like vegetables, and you after admit that its very strange Bruges doesn't have any, when it's so close to Brussels.

Sprouts, Plastic Bertrand and Mayo or chips (can't remember which one). That is Belgiums only claims to World Culture.

Bruges is easily within walking distance in the centre. As for chips, if you ho fown near the bus dropping off point near the river, theres a floating bar that does cracking chips ... all by thereself .

Belgian beer and chocolate is canny like.

Must say Iv never been into Chips that much that I would want them abroad.

Always makes me laugh on Just Eat when people give reviews about an Indian or Chinese and whinge about the chips for fucks sake.

Probably annoys me as much as people who say 'I'm getting an Indians' or a 'Sunday's Dinner'

Where the fuck have them extra 's'' come from?

Maybe they are actually taking an Indian's dinner off him? Not sure who Sunday is mind.

Not sure that Snowy 's advice to ho fown near the river would have been wise unless you were desperate for chip money.

Stayed in Bruges once and there was a fooking massive stuffed bear on the landing that gave me nightmares, unless that was the fruit beer.

Off to Bilbao and San Sebastian on Friday, will check for chip and veg levels and report back.

Somebody else got there with the beer and chocolate but there's also Jaques Brel, Toots Thielemans and Django Reinhardt for those who do the music thing. Adolphe Saxe inventor of the of the Saxophone was also Belgian and, of course, Herge's Adventures of Tin Tin!!

..and Buns. Belgian Buns. Could just neck one of those now...

Yes, I've never been sure that Snowy had my best interests at heart.
Naturally I wouldn't have wanted chips if there'd been other vegetables available, but to see chips on the menu and then be told we couldn't have them, was strange. Some of you don't seem to appreciate this.

Also, everywhere is 'within walking distance in the centre'. It's getting to the centre in the first place that's the issue, with no buses. And lace...there are lace shops everywhere.

Blame the EU.

Same with people who say Tescos and Asdas

Well, I don't like it when people say 'a' instead of 'an', in front of a word beginning with a vowel. A egg.
They never do that in Bruges, to be fair.

YOU mentioned chips, I only tried to help. Not forgetting they take chips very seriously in Belgium.

So it was the Belgium's who invented Chips? Was it the Belgium's or Dutch who invented Mayo?

There isa 'chip museum' ... and I'm being deadly serious. The Frietmuseum in Brugge...Bruge.

In Bruge was a very good fillum.

And the French invented mayonnaise but not for chips so its a Belgium v Holland derby to decide that one.

I once considered buying a life size figure of Caprain Haddock in the Tin Tin shop in Bruge.The wife was not impressed by the price or it's size. I bought a snowy figure instead... €14.99.

Didn't the French also claim Plastic Bertrand?

The French would have invented chips by accident and then disowned them after refining them to death...they take the credit for every fooking food invented. Nah, don' t believe it.

Sang for Luxembourg in Eurovision 1980.

Cheers Mr ElvisC, but I'm sure I saw a Docu where the French tried to claim him as one of there's. I'm positive (ish) he was one of them Belgiumer's.

Bruges is always rammed full of tourists , get away from there and find lots of places be it coast or country far more civilised and also you can go to football matches in that Belgian pro league priced from 15 € to sit you also can drink beer whilst watching and if you smoke then happy days, its much more civilised than here

Sorry, have just twigged this bit of confusion......I wasn't meaning you at that point. I know you are always.. ahem... helpfulness itself, Snowy.
My fault for trying to answer everyone's points at once.

Yes, it was certainly rammed with tourists, all of them taking photos of each other pulling daft faces! Unfortunately we weren't there long enough to do any trips out into the country.

Thanks for the good suggestions, though.

Was in Belgium last summer, going again this year. When in café in Bruges there was an American family asking there daughter if she was enjoying looking around and seeing what it looking like to live in the olden days. When it wasn't annoying American's it was bloody selfie sticks, when did the art of asking someone to take a photo die out. Bruges was nice too crowded for my like it.

I did enjoy the novelty in one restaurant I went in that for women to get to the toilet they had to go through the door right next to the urinals.

Surely in Hartlepool it's a negg?

When I was little I thought Hondas were called Nonders, as in 'me dad drives a Nonder'.

I like that every beer in Belgium/Belgie/Belgique has it's own glass, the Kwak one is bonkers!. It's probably an urban myth but I read that one bar, tired of having their glassware nicked, demanded customers hand over a shoe as a deposit - by the end of the night some imbibers staggered home in one Doc Martin and one peep-toed slingback.