Bruges: bits and pieces

Some of the best parts of traveling are the odd, unexpected things that you stumble upon while walking.

We did a lot of that.

Because Bruges used to be a walled city, it is still surrounded by a "ring road" with a surrounding canal. The area around it is filled with either green space, medieval city gates, or windmills. There are occasional modern roads - although the city itself doesn't have a lot of traffic - and on the other side of the ring, you can see the unfortunate architecture that Bruges' building code does not allow.

The vehicles pictured here tickled me. The beer delivery bike, the other delivery vehicle with the (very real) dog inspecting it from inside, the former bike-now-serving-area. 

And the trees. The bizarre, pollarded trees. I know that once the leaves come in, they'll look fine, if a bit geometric, and that it's a pruning style that controls growtht, but all I want to say whenever I see one of them is, "Who hurt you?"

Nothing you'd see back home, which is what I want to see when I'm away.