How much time can you spent in a town like Bruges? Well it depends on how slowly you move. There are many snug places you can spend time in, just strolling and watching and thinking nothing. I think this is the moment to teach all non-Germans a special word to describe the particular quality of those places: “lauschig”. You should learn and remember this and use it on a warm, not too hot, day in late spring when the sun is out but you sit maybe below a tree in half shade, everything is pleasant, and you think “I could spend all day here.” Then you are probably in a place that could be described as “lauschig”.

 

 

The world at her fingertips:

 

Not so sure what’s on the menu…

 

Bruges is engineer’s heaven: I love the bridges. This one in particular is really, really cute. It lifts the street up in the air, asphalt and road markings and all that.

 

Just imagine a driver does not make it to the other side before the bridge starts lifting – then the meaning of “stairway to heaven” gets a very practical reality.

 

I guess at that time, there was less bridge-lifting, but we may assume there were bridges at least.

 

You want to live in this pink house, don’t you? Or is that colour rather apricot?

 

Triennale 2018 Bruges – “Liquid City”: When whales enter the city and get to the end of the canal. And now… what…? Just jump!

 

 

 

Could I have chosen a worse timing for visiting the city of chocolate? For sure not. I have been on a “no sweets” challenge during May. You know what…? I made it. But this meant I could not go into this tiny little heavenly place. I could not bear the temptation.

 

 

Little alleys leading to cute places.

 

Can we assume that the inhabitants of this apartment play Tchaikovsky all day long? Walk around in a tutu? Brain, stop thinking rubbish…