Bruges; Sunday, 17 September, 2017

The Sunday was a car free day in the city centre and consequently there were no vehicles – not even buses – allowed in the city centre, which made getting back to the station interesting.

Given that we’d explored much of what there was to see in Bruges we decided to head to the perimeter of the car free zone and pick up a cab back to the station to catch a train out to Oostende.

Having put our bags into the luggage lockers at Oostende we headed over to the tram station and picked up the Kusttram to head north along the Belgium coast towards the Dutch border.

We hopped off in Blankenberge and went for a wander along the sea front and out down the concrete pier – the only pier in Belgium.

Back on the seafront we found a quite nice restaurant and had an early lunch before heading back down to the tram stop and picking the Kusttram back to Oostende where we picked up our luggage and caught the train back in towards Brussels.

We arrive back in Midi about an hour before check-in was due to open, so we popped to a bar just outside the station for a drink before it was time to check-in, join our train and head back to London.