Bruges Christmas Markets with Colin & Wendy

We started our trip to Bruges with a very calm crossing of the English Channel on the P & O ferry "Pride of Canterbury". Once in Calais it was just a short drive to our Hotel in Bruges located within walking distance of many of the historic buildings and of course the all important Christmas markets.
Although this was a relatively short holiday, as we were treated to very good weather during our stay, we were able to walk around and see many of the beautiful churches and museums and shop both in the markets and the all important chocolate shops.
Our Hotel has a very good restaurant where we had a wide choice of food for breakfast each morning and for lunch and dinner we experienced just a few of the many local restaurants.
Most of our group went on a horse & carriage ride around the city whilst we were out and all were very interested in the history of the city given to them by the driver.
We also visited the "Snow & Ice Wonderland" an amazing exhibition of ice sculptures this year using Disney characters as its theme. We all thoroughly enjoyed the festival and the -5 temperature in the exhibition centre set us up nicely for a hot cup of chocolate on our way out.
Although everyone enjoyed everything to be seen in Bruges the highlight for most of us was spending time in the numerous chocolate shops trying to decide what to take back as presents or what we should eat straight away.