Bokrijk, in the eastern portion of Belgium about an hour’s drive from Brussels, was our daytrip for today. The best way to describe it is sort of a Flemish version of Upper Canada Village. Basically, it’s a museum where they’ve preserved and/or restored old buildings, and where the employees dress up in costume to depict Flemish rural life before 1900. It sort of feels like an old chant, you know, “the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker”… well, we saw two out of three (the butcher, presumably, would’ve been too graphic). While the museum was more designed for Belgian school groups and children than for international tourists, and most of the explanations were only in Flemish, it was still a lot of fun.
This evening we had a nice “night out on the town”. We headed to a cobblestoned pedestrian street and had dinner at a lovely French restaurant out on a terrace. Good wine, good food, good company, good dessert… who can complain? I could definitely get used to this!