Status Updates From Rick Steves Belgium: Bruges...

Not sure if I can really count this in my book total… but I am reading the whole thing, and it is a book, so maybe? I love this guy (Rick)

I bought this after my 2nd trip to BE and am finally giving it a good read after my third. Yes I’m finding some useful information. But I’m glad I did some exploring without the book. One of the wonders of travel is in discovering places on your own so if I had read it all would still be as enamored with these places as I am? Not sure...

"The heart of Ghent still looks much like it did circa 1500, when this was one of Europe’s greatest cities: bristling with skyscraping towers, rich with art (...)"

"Antwerpenaars (as locals are called) have a love of life, and the city has a funky urbanity. Antwerp’s big-city bustle is the yang to Bruges’ cutesy-village yin. And while Brussels has become international, Antwerp has retained more of a local identity—it’s an honest, what-you-see-is-what-you-get place (...)"