The shopping and beer

We meandered the streets of Bruges, Belgium in search of the beer mecca for Eric: called The Bottle Shop. They literally sell just about every beer made in this country. And of course the glass fitting to be paired with that particular beer. Eric bought a Buccaneer Red, 6 others, glasses, etc. It was really the store he had dreamed of. This is where he learned there was no U.S. duty restriction from bringing beer back into the country. You instantly knew at that point we would be pushing the 50-pound-per-bag limit on luggage. Their glassware was awesome as well, and luckily they agreed to ship the glasses to us back home, thus saving us any potential disappointment from broken glasses in heavy luggage. We purchased a beer walking tour brochure from the store and wanted to hit a couple more Bruges beer spots.



Next door was a(nother) chocolate store. Touristy. Well, you get the idea here.

We continued onto more stores, that sold more beer, and more chocolates. Sensing a theme here?




We had a great lunch at Cambrinus, on Philipstockstraat, which consisted of huge omelets made with local eggs and their own farm ham.

They serve over 400 beers, however, we ordered their house beer - wonderfully dark and sweet - perfect complement to the eggs and savory ham. Great place. www.cambrinus.eu