Bruges Episode 6: 't Zand

From the St. Saviour’s Cathedral (previous episode), we just walked along, not having another specific destination in mind.

a pretty house...which turned out to be an artist's studio (and home)

a peek through the window

The artist came out and invited us in. He told us how he came to settle down in Bruges (at first, he was spending just a weekend there, like us) and about his work, abstract and semi-abstract paintings (I like semi-abstract better, since I at least manage to see something in the painting :P Like the flowers in the previous photo)

taking photos of his work to put on his website

Heard of him before?

a building with some drawing on its wall

fish in a window

the concerthall

This fountain was right behind me when I took that photo.

The square is 't Zand, the marketplace. According to this webpage, it is the biggest open square in Bruges. (I sure had a hard time finding the name of this square...everywhere I found the concerthall mentioned, I found 't Zand, but I didn't know what that meant!) It's not surprising that it's not in the town centre...in the centre there isn't enough place for a square this size :P

There was an event for animal rights that day...organised by a biker's association.

the stage...they sang songs in English

We could buy coupons to exchange for food and drinks, then sit down to eat.

there was even a snake-man

A lot of booths were set up for the occasion.




Then we headed back towards the town centre.

a little "garden" we walked through

Here's his name, if you happen to know this guy...

taken from the garden of a convent called the Beguinage (Begijnhof)
(Or does Beguinage mean convent?)

We had also passed by this place on the boat. Remember the photo taken from the opposite angle?

So that's Bruges for you...on Sunday afternoon the others went back to France, while I continued my visit of Belgium (since I had nothing better to do lol), taking the train to Antwerp instead. And that, as usual, will be for another post ;)