Belgium Trip 2011 - Day 3 - Basilica of the Holy Blood

 Hey guys!

D-d-d-d-d-double posts! This is just a short post about after the boat tour in Bruges, we went onwards to the Heilig-Bloedbasilie also known as Basilica of the Holy Blood. It's apparently a really small but magnificent place where they have the ritual of the holy blood or something like that.

It was before coming here that we were seemingly harassed by the musketeer hobo. That story can be found here.

The church itself it pretty nice looking, at first we were confused to where photos could not be taken. And later we found out it was in the treasure/artefact room (which costs 2 euros to enter by the way) I do NOT recommend going in there as there are just random stuffs in a small room which you can finish looking at in about 15 minutes. The explanations in English made no sense whatsoever either.

The church area was pretty nice... wait I said that already. It gives this calming feeling I guess? Though the thought that pickpockets are lurking about seeing the signs warning visitors removed the same calming feeling.

Didn't take many photographs here as I said this place is quite small and also I didn't want to bother the visitors who were praying and stuff.

After this we went onwards to go get ice cream and then go home!

All in all the trip to Belgium was great! Sure there isn't much to do there, but the sights and taste of Belgian hospitality was brilliant! But if you want excitement, this is not the place lol.

~Fox