We are currently visiting friends in the old Flemish city of Bruges, where they live on a houseboat on the edge of the city centre. This is something completely different, the old cargo ship moored in the canal to Ostend is also very cosy and spacious.

It’s also not far to the old town, which is still completely medieval, and it’s fair to say that the entire old centre is a unique and impressive open-air museum that fortunately survived the last two world wars of the 20th century completely unscathed.

Now, in the still pre-season, it is not completely overcrowded and very pleasant.