After two years of London I decided it was time for a new adventure and move to Germany to work there. Being Austrian I had visited Germany before but living there would be new. The language barrier hopefully wouldn’t be too big and my plan was to follow a friends invitation to work on the next Season of Game of Thrones. So on a warm Saturday afternoon after packing my bags I set off to Dover to cross to France by ferry.

I didn’t have much time to reach the ferry. In fact I knew it was going to be close. Luckily the roads were empty except for that huge huge traffic jam I encountered half way.

With a car I would not have made the ferry. While everybody was waiting and people were getting out of their cars I was going slow and steady between them. I reached the ferry terminal twenty minutes before the closing of the terminal.

It was a short trip and after 45 min the ferry reached Dunkirk, France around midnight. I didn’t waste any time and kept pushing on to Bruges, Belgium right away.

At 2AM I reached a hostel where I had made a reservation once more using the hostelworld app.

Bruges is famous for it’s medieval architecture and it’s Venetian canal city center layout. I knew Bruges mostly from the very entertaining and dark movie “In Bruges” which shows the city in winter covered in snow.

Finding my room at the BAUHAUS hostel proved a bit difficult but I did get some much needed sleep and a rudimentary but included breakfast the next morning after which I drove to the city centre for some sightseeing.

No wonder this place was used for movies. It looked like straight from a fairy tale.

This little tavern really was as little as it looks.