Life on the Vine

It's been two months since I took Tom on his mystery birthday trip.  He was traveling when I was planning the trip so I was sending him hints by e-mail on where we were going.  Hints like: One of the cities we are visiting has been called the Venice of its country.  The country we are visiting is serious about its beer and its not Germany.  We are visiting two cities in a country with two official languages.  He wasn't really into the guessing game though.  I eventually did tell him where we were going.  So, when we were packing for the trip, he already knew we were going to Belgium to visit Bruges and Brussels.   The Bell Tower I did an earlier blog that included photos of our eating and drinking exploits, featuring a lot of photos from our Belgium trip.  I never really shared any photos or information about the other stuff we did while on that trip. Seeing as how I've got to get around to returning the Rick Steves guidebook I borro...

Last night while I was downloading photos from our most recent trip...we went to Belgium for five days for Tom's birthday...I was laughing at all the pictures of Tom and me with food and beverages.  You know the sayings...an army travels on its stomach...the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, etc., I guess you could say the Dalrymples travel on their stomachs too.  I joked with Tom that I was going to do a blog just with all the pictures of us eating and drinking our way across Europe.  I thought that might actually be a fun post.  So, here we go.      Belgium is known for its mussels, chocolate and beer and we happily tried them all.  We also drank our fair share of coffee.  Now don't get alarmed at all the pictures of us with beer.  We were at no time during any of these trips inebriated and we usually only had a beer a day...okay, maybe two a day. Tom's Birthday Dinner in Brugge, Belgium Fish, mussels and beer....