(PLease click to enlarge). Excited about what I’m seeing and had to fire off some pics to you even though it is late~
Brugge is best at close of day when all the tourists leave.
The tourist boats are quiet and the sun begins to go to bed.
The canals get still,
reflecting Brugge.
At dusk it’s hard to see where water starts and land begins.
At night the swans come out,
to swim with fairies.
Cheers to you from Brugge at dusk~
I love Brugge….love photograph:)
So glad you do & cheers to you!
Lovely – the reflection off the water is gorgeous – I’ve been to Brussels but not yet to Brugge – definitely on my list now 🙂
It is about an hour by train from Brussels.
We intended to make the trip but got soooo cold (it was March 2011) that we didn’t make it. Sometime, though, for sure 🙂
You will be glad you did! It is a tad nippy now too~
Loved seeing the photos. Took me back to Brugge. Have some Belgium waffles and a Belgium beer for me.
And some Belgian chocolate too! 😉
So pretty! I love the swans.
I do too and they only come out when the crowds leave!
Wow. Absolutely beautiful.
So happy you enjoyed!
One of the most beautiful cities I have ever visited. Thanks for bringing back lovely memories.
Oh so happy I did!
Thank you Patti, for the photo set. I was just only one time in Brugge. It is such a lovely city. I love harbor cities resp. cities located close to water. You captured the charme and the atmosphere in beautiful images. It remembers me as I walked same, similar ways in Brugge. Great!
Oh, I am so sorry for my mistake. I meant thank you Cindy. Mea culpa!
How lovely to be walking down the same thorough fares again!! Wonderful concept~
Wow what a great place to be.. 🙂
Yes it is pretty special! Cheers to you~
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I am honored and very appreciative!
They are all so nice. And talk about reflections!
It is a beautiful city to reflect!
I do like to see a well kept town. Makes civilization a bit more worthy. Great shots, I’m glad you are enjoying it. 🙂
Yes, no trash, no graffiti, just swans, canals……and chocolate!
Whats chocolate ❓
Yep, and homemade chocolate with homemade praline, baked that morning. It is truly one of the seven deadly sins………
Kill me 😛
Wonderful place and the pictures. I looked up to find out what country Brugge is in. I saw the picture exactly as the first picture from the search result too!
Yes it is the most photographed spot in Brugge and is just in front of our hotel!
Then there is milk chocolate rolled in dark chocolate shavings, served still warm……..They have chocolate boats in the windows, with chocolate fish, lobsters and clams……..there is a chocolate museum. Should I keep going???????
The river looks very similar in places to one where I live, some of the buildings here are a little more impressive though. Reminds me of Cambridge too, that has a similar river with ancient universities along the way. Has a real feel of romance this place! 🙂
Yes, quite lovely and romantic and representative of an earlier time!
Glad to see you have your ducks in a row… er… swans.
They even came over to us when I called “Here pretty birdd!” 🙂
Thanks for sharing your wonderful experiences, Cindy. Love the pics.
So glad you do and all the best to you Peter!
Gorgeous pictures of beautiful architecture…with peaceful reflections! Like time was staying still.
It feels exactly like this as we are staying in a very old hotel full of antiques and the church bells play Mozart!
Like you said, perfect time of day to capture reflections of those lovely old buildings, Cindy.
Best time of day in Brugge!
These are fantastic photos..Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
Thank you more for appreciating!
Beautiful pictures! Looks like a great place!
Lovely, quaint and romantic! Glad you enjoyed~
Thanks for taking the time to post these…..they look straight out of a travel book! You should check in over there and see if they need some new pix for advertising purposes!
What a lovely thing to say! Merci beaucoup~
What a beautiful peaceful place!
Perfect descriptor!
Cindy, I just love Brugge! We came there after leaving our careers in London, to decide what to do with our lives, so it has always been the most special place for us. Absolutely beautiful photos! 🙂 ~Terri
What a marvelous place to make such a decision! The surrounding must have calmed you~
You know that I am extremely jealous…but extremely grateful to being taken along on the ride. This is wonderful, I know you are having a wonderful time.
I am so happy to have you along Antionette! You are the best traveler~ <3
SO beautiful! Love the photographs with the swans, Cindy.
They were the piece de la resistance!!!
So very beautiful. Thank you for posting these exquisite photos of Brugge while you are traveling.
Thank you Amy my friend for appreciating them!
How beautiful – – – and I missed it. Didn’t even know it existed. My loss. Thanks for taking us there.
I am so glad you are coming along Wally & hope all is well~
That is such an amazing place. Your photo journal is wonderful. I am always amazed at how many beautiful places are in the world.
It is remarkable to think of the stunning places isn’t it?
Such beauty!
Timeless too! Cheers to you~
Oh wow! I’m definitely putting this place on my list.
You will be glad you did!
I almost went there. I was in Switzerland and my next stop of Belgium. My brother insisted for me to stay longer with them and I obliged. Are you on vacation or business? Have a great time!
Vacation for an extended bit, just getting started and Brugge and Koln are a good beginning!
“At night the swans come out to swim with fairies.” Beautiful canals, I can imagine the fairies.
If only I could get a pick of one………. I’m trying!
It is beautiful.
So happy you think so!
Absolutely charming.
That describes it! <3
Thank you for posting these…..brings back many memories!
Ahhhhhhh, very glad!
Oh how beautiful and peaceful. I want to go and live there. 😀
Laughing, I can understand! <3
Ahhhh Brugge. Now that brings back some delightful memories of days long ago. What lovely photos Cindy.
Thank you Pauline and so glad to stir up the good memories!
Beautiful photos of an obviously enchanting place. Now firmly on the Bucket List. Thanks Cindy, it gets longer each time you post – marvellous!
Oh good these types of goals are good for the psyche! All the best to you~
Isn’t it the loveliest place? 🙂 We weren’t so lucky- we visited in freezing November fog, many, many years ago, but I still remember the loveliness.
Oh I can just imagine how cold it would be in winter! It is comfortably cool now~
Oh sounds quite exotic!!!!! 😉
Never been here, but it struck me when I looked at your lovely photographs just now, that last night I dreamed of this place. I was in a boat, on a two hour trip down the river. I did the same trip twice. Your images brought the whole dream right back to me. Strange?
That is how long some of the boat tours last! You are in connection with Brugge. I hope you visit~
Yes, maybe I should x
I was in BRUSSELS but never in BRUGGE but it looks nice, very nice and i think i will visit this town 😉 Nice post
You will be very happy when you do, and of course there is the chocolate…….. 😉
Love the swans!
They come to you if you call “come here pretty bird”…….
Beautiful photo’s Cindy! We were in Brugge in 2008. I thought it was magical. We didn’t get to stay overnight though. I would love to go back.
So glad you visited and hope you come back and stay awhile!
Hey, that’s practically in my neighbourhood… Brugge is very beautiful, and you can eat delicious pancakes in the old city centre.
Yes we are here now, staying in the old centre. Today we climbed the windmills built in 1770 and got away from all the tourists! I am eating chocolate, they cook in the morning!!! <3 <3 <3
This is a very nice town. I have been there once and have loved it. Enjoy !
So glad you were here!!! 🙂
I believe I stood on that exact spot of your first photo! Gorgeous water reflections!
I am sure you did, the most photographed spot in Brugge! Today we climbed windmills built in 1770!!! No one was there~
One of my favorite fairy-tale settings.
This is what it is!
Ah Cindy, the beautiful Brugge – it has a special place in my heart for it was there that my good friend Ante Zanetic – in top 11 world soccer players of sixties – came as he defected from the oppressive communist regime of Yugoslavia to play for Brugge football club. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante_%C5%BDaneti%C4%87
You know my grandfather came from Bulagaria and lived in Yugoslavia, so we are practically sisters!!!! 😉 😉 Brugge is a very special place. It seems like a perfect time warp and the bells are ringing as I type!
Awww, very nice to hear, Cindy 🙂
🙂 soothing quietness without the bustle
Love your reflecting.
Can you believe Little Miss is walking now. Son of Son started 3 full days of pre-school.
Love the swans.
My, well the neighborhood Great Blue Heron has taken to walking across my yard (this late summer season). I did get some photos, but I think they may get grainy when I enlarge them.
I can only take photos from my picture window…he’s not one for human companionship 😉
Heron’s can be a tad lethal if they chose with those razor beaks, so many that is good, although another blogger used to feed one by hand! Congrats on preschool!!! Such a big step!!!
The lad is smart where he sits… just like his daddy:)
Kind of sad though I was reading in the paper what is expected to be known at the end of a kindergarten year.
No more play, or a whole lot less of it.
Though I think our Little Guy knows most of that anyway. He’s able to write his name. And knows his address too. Little sponges they are. Little Miss is going to be a talker too! Little parrot that she is 😉
Our heron likes our secluded creek. Though when I see him I do tell him how pretty he looks. He lost his mate a few years back. But still keeps coming around this way.
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I need to visit. Great shots.
I hope you do you will be very glad you did!
Stunning reflections, Cindy. Love the architecture and the swans. 🙂
Tonight I was up close and personal with about 30 swans including one black one! Post them soon……They are very friendly! Cheers to you my friend~
Magical.
Best adjective! Thank you~
Maybe we should add Germany to our list of places to visit. 🙂 Very beautiful.
Germany is a beautiful country with lovely rural towns, green countryside, flower boxes, scnhitzel, gorgeous rivers and friendly people, besides music, culture……. If you go once, you want to go again!
Amazing shots of an other worldly looking place – thanks for sharing.
Thank you for appreciating!
And now go to Leuven….see the old centre recreated after 1914 and the beguinages…
I love Brugge….but Leuven is still alive.
Oh sounds fascinating! Today we are taking the train from Brugge to Knnoke for a day trip~
Beautiful pics! Have lots of fun on your trip! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Hi Cindy! Gorgeous! I want to go to Brugge!
I sincerely hope you do!
Absolutely beautiful, dear Cindy… Thanks for sharing… It is somehow a way of “being there”…
Best wishes! Aquileana 🙂
It is lovely to have you along my friend!
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Cindy Knoke is travelling and here are some of her photographs from Brugge – we lived in Brussels for a couple of years and spent some time in this wonderful place – Venice without the odours! The restaurants are fantastic and I recommend the Fish soup and the chocolates….
I will try the fish soup! I have seen it on the menu. Must have been so lovely to live near here. We leave for Brussels by train tomorrow!
If you have time you might like to pop out about 20 minutes between Waterloo where we lived (great battle museum) and Brussels – Hotel du Lac – stunning views over lake and wonderful food. http://www.martinshotels.com/en/hotel/chateau-du-lac/restaurant/genval-les-bains have a safe trip and enjoy..
Thank you for sharing your wonderful photographs with us. It is several years since I have been in Brugges so it was lovely to be reunited with this lovely city!
It is a quiet peaceful city seemingly far removed from the strife of the world!
Thank you & you too!
I’m impressed you managed to take so many pictures and no chocolate shop on sight! It’s a lovely place but it seemed impossible to find anywhere with no chocolate shops within a few metres distance!
Very true! One has to leave the tourist center and go to the outskirts to find the quiet Brugge and stay overnight as even the center gets quiet after 6pm! But chocolate, oh yes, everywhere!!!
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Hello ! What city is?
Brugge in Belgium and thanks so much for the reblog! Cheers to you~
Love is seen to be a very nice place. you’re welcome
Gorgeous pics! I have been there, and it is beautiful, and often overlooked as a tourist destination, although it still feels busy. Really enjoyed your post.
So glad you did and cheers to you too! 🙂
I almost missed the little statues in those windows I was watching the swans float by and then one of those kids up there through a rock 🙂 haha
Hmmmm……..sounds exciting!
haha… in my imagination that is: I was looking at your picture and can see up in the windows a bunch of little figures standing in the window seals. Made me think of that…. 🙂
Ahhh, now I understand. They do have a lot of puppets and life size figures in the windows so I can see where your imagination is taking you!!! 🙂
I love the tranquility you’ve captured in those pictures. Wonderful picturesque buildings, although I expect they get flooded in the basements sometimes but I expect they’re designed to withstand too much structural damage. I assume the city isn’t sinking, like Venice is!
Not like Venice no, where you have to slosh into St Peters, the canals are lower, but it does have a similar feel to Venice although much quieter in the evenings and Flemish not Italian, so different…..
now you just need to add that sexy babe Colin Ferrel…ooO. What a movie. They did not do justice to Brugges, as you did–but when do they…have a lovely weekend, my esteemed friend. 🙂
Cindy–sorry for the typo–will you please fix…:)
Hi Cindy!!! your Photos are beautiful !!! My favorite one is the nite photo with the swans !! 🙂 Thank You for liking my Charcoal drawing !!! 🙂 *Cynthia
You are most welcome & cheers!
Beautiful photos here. Would love to see it some time. Looks so historic and full of charm. Thanks for visiting my blog site recently. The best to you with yours, as well. .
Welcome and glad you enjoyed! Cheers to you~
You have gotten some fantastic shots! Thanks for sharing them 🙂
Thank you more for appreciating them!
It’s such a lovely place but I visited once when it was freezing cold!
Yes! I hear it can get quite chilly especially in the winter I imagine! It is coolish now, but the sun comes out everyday!
Stunning!
It is like the land that stress forgot……and crime and violence!
Gorgeous photos! Thanks for sharing them with us. I’ve dreamed of going there since I read a Longfellow poem about the town. Have a terrific time!
I hope your dream comes true very soon! It is all you hope it will be! <3
I am transfixed by these stunning pictures and the peaceful beauty.
Hi Dorr, we are in Brussels now, just arrived. It was hard to leave peaceful Brugge~
The reflections are so great. I love reflection in photography!
Yep, me too, an image of an image! Love em~
Lovely architecture! What a beautiful place (that I’ve missed so far)!
Well, I had too, until this trip! So happy you enjoyed~
Awesome place! And of course the photos are fantastic 🙂
You are biased and I love you for it!!! 😉
Wao !!
What a classy place to visit
Amazing shots, just love them ….
Well I am honored and so happy you like Brugge too!
Brugge looks very inviting!
It is precisely so!
Got to, got to, got to get there!
Then I fully expect you will, soon!!! I look forward to your trip!
Reflection shots are some of my favorites…it is such a great way to take another look at a place, although I have to admit my favorite shot it the last one with the swans, just a classic!
Awww, so honored when you take note of the photos and I love reflection shots too, they are like a metaphor for the limitations of visual perception~
That is a perfect explanation of reflections…there is always something emotional that is captured in reflections ~
Reflections photos great!!! 🙂
So happy you enjoyed and cheers!
I had a fascination with the canals the entire time I was in Europe. It didn’t matter the country, I loved them equally.
I agree they are so picturesque and exotic to us!
This pictures look taken out from some sort of magical child´s book, is there really a village like that…..
That is exactly what it feels like too, a fairytale land!
Absolutely beautiful!!!!
Awww thank you my friend and so happy you came by for a visit! Cheers to you~
Muchas gracias mi amiga!
Cindy! I have fallen in love with Brugge!!! It is a dream, a fairy tale filled with dreams that delight in anticipation of what can possibly be around the next corner! Where is Brugge?
It is in Belgium, an easy train ride from Brussels, should you be thinking of going for yourself to find the fairies around the corners!!! 🙂
I am truly tempted! “-)
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