November 2015
It was back to Belgium for our latest overseas adventure.
We needed to get back and see Flanders Fields, and properly see Bruges given our last trip to the city so short. Our trip was also made more affordable with some help from Eurostar - the compensation from a 73 minute delay on our last trip to Belgium in August knocked off half of the ticket price!
We had a bit of trepidation leading up to the trip - the Paris attacks happened two weeks beforehand, with the pursuit/manhunt in Brussels locking down the city and raising the terror alert across the whole country, up to just a few days before we arrived. We got in to Brussels Midi on the Saturday to see a big police presence - about 10 cars outside one entrance, and groups of officers with assault rifles patrolling the station.
But everything still felt safe, and after transferring trains arrived in Bruges an hour later without any hassles.
