This would be our first trip back to the continent since our Euro Trips in 2019 pre covid pandemic. We were really looking forward to spreading our wings again, but could not commit to traveling too far afield due to work commitments. The most we could take off work was a couple of weeks. So after scouring the map of possible desinations from Calais / Dunkirk, we decided that this trip would cover the best that Belgium had to offer.
Mandy and I finished work on Friday, and headed for Dover at 8pm after a birthday barbeque. We arrived at 1am Saturday morning and managed to get 3 hours sleep before catching the 7am ferry to Calais.
At this stage we had just commited to the first few nights at a campsite in Brugge we stayed at in 2018. We knew was a reliable first port of call where we could unwind, explore and plan the rest of the trip.