Day 2

We're on our second night at our campground in Bruges. It is technically camping, but in a way I have never done nor expected to ever do. We are a short bus ride to the centre of Bruges, we are near no body of water and in close proximity to our neighbors. There is wifi available and clean toilets and showers. This isn't camping.

It is however a pretty affordable way to bum around Europe. Not really cheap, but €20 for 2 people to sleep and 24 hours of parking isn't too bad. I think we'll be alternating between this and hostels as long as we have the car.

Genevieve has set a budget goal of €50 a day, but I think we will more likely be doubling that on the regular. It'll be a fun cop/sourpuss cop scenario.

Bruges is beautiful, almost unnaturally so. The buildings and canals are so photogenic. It's sort of similar to Rhodes Town mixed with Amsterdam with its old stone streets and canals, but it's so much more pristine and with no unoccupied or unkept buildings. The place looks a little bit fairytale.

We're off to Cologne tomorrow morning, if we can get another 400km's out of the Micra. Topped up the gearbox oil before we left and it sounds a little better, but expectations are still quite low. The local mechanic didn't have much faith it would even get to Dover, and I don't think either of us expect him to get a postcard from Sicily.

-Justin