Day trip to Brugge, Gent and Lille. Any suggestions?

[wineman02]

Next Tuesday I am going for a day trip to Brugge in my 328GTS and wondered if anyone knew of any Chateau en-route from Calais to visit? I will be going along the E40/A16. If time allows after some lunch (and I want to pop into the Salvador Dali gallery) I will head to Gent and then Lille to make a round trip of it before I get the 22:40 shuttle home. The tunnel is only 25 mins from me and am on the 08:20 so a fair bit of time. I have been to Brugge a couple of times so do not need ages there.

Does anyone have any suggestions of places to see before I get to Brugge (I have visited Gent and Lille before so they are not must do stops on the day).

Thanks

David

[JazzyO]

Never been there but this looks like a nice castle to visit, not far from Bruges. http://www.toerismetorhout.be/nl/pagina/kasteel-wi...


Onno

[tomtom]

Mario149 did a short trip to Bruges recently but he's somewhere near Mongolia now so I doubt he'll reply. Try searching for his thread?

[williamp]

There is quite a lot of WW1 stuff around there centred on, of course Ypres. Its a bit out of the way, but worth the detour.

[wineman02]

Thanks guys - I love the idea of the Castle. When I owned a wine Merchant I used to have a client in Ypres that owned quite a nice hotel/restaurant (very good wine list as well) that was at the top of a hill. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me though.

[Mario149]

tomtom said:

Mario149 did a short trip to Bruges recently but he's somewhere near Mongolia now so I doubt he'll reply. Try searching for his thread?

Got back on Sat

I did a weekend in Bruges, but didn't stop off on the way there or back. Not sure it's worth a day trip on it's own if you're driving as you won't be able to sample the beer properly

[JazzyO]

Good point, Mario!


Onno

[wineman02]

Good to see you back Mario!

I am dry at the moment as I was a fat bas***d and am doing Triathlons now Nothing worse than being the fat bloke amongst all those guys with 6 packs when you come out from the swim!

I am going tomorrow and it will be pissing it down by the looks of things. I was giving the windscreen a wash this evening and just lifted the wiper and the clasp broke. Great - no wipers except I live 2 miles from The Ferrari Centre where I got the car from and Alistair very kindly came to my rescue. I have to say that the service there is phenomenal. I can't see me ever going any where else TBH.