{"id":35,"date":"1998-04-22T17:38:53","date_gmt":"1998-04-23T00:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/?p=35"},"modified":"2020-06-14T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:14:55","slug":"europe-1998-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/1998\/04\/22\/europe-1998-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe 1998 Day 9: Koblenz to Brugge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wednesday April 22, 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another fine German breakfast, but my health has definitely taken a turn for the worse. We set out in our Sharon fairly late, heading for Brugges, Belgium. The ride was smoother than yesterday and a smidgen more comfortable. I didn\u2019t have a chance to get a Koblenz postcard, breaking my string of city postcards. Along the way, there was a huge accident on the Belgian Autobahn. Quickly following the lead of an Alfa Romeo driver, we backed down the on ramp and proceeded through the side streets. Wesley did a good job of keeping behind the Alfa Romeo – I am sure we would have been SOL without him. After about 45 minutes of city driving we were back on the Autobahn near Brussles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a long day in the car, and quite under the weather, Josh happily arrives in Koblenz, Germany for a quick overnight stay. Pictured is the Pfaffendorfer Br\u00fccke that crosses the Rhine river near our hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Festung Ehrenbreitstein from the Pfaffendorfer Br\u00fccke in Koblenz, Germany<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the autobahn nearing the border of Belgium and Germany in the town of Eschweiler, Germany we passed the RWE Nuclear Power plant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We finally arrived in Brugges. I wish I could tell you how long the second road trip section was, but I was really drugged up on the fine German over the counter meds. We circled the downtown looking for our hotel and quickly learned that minivans and narrow cobblestone streets are not made for each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Safely in Bruges, Josh poses at the base of the Belfry. Photo taken from the Market<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sint-Salvatorskathedraal (St Salvador’s Cathedral) in central Bruges<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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he statue of Simon Stevin (Flemish mathematician, physicist and military engineer) in the Simon Stevinplein with the Church of Our Lady Bruges (Onze Lieve Vrouw Brugge) towering in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Due to our late start time, by the time we were settled, most of the shops were closed, which was fine for me since I was yearning for my bed. Mom was disappointed though, this was one of the places she really wanted to see on the trip (other than Budapest). We ended up at Pizza Hut for dinner, which did absolutely nothing to make me feel better. Upon returning to the hotel, I decided to take some Ny-Quil and surrender to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday April 22, 1998 Another fine German breakfast, but my health has definitely taken a turn for the worse. We set out in our Sharon fairly late, heading for Brugges, Belgium. The ride was smoother than yesterday and a smidgen more comfortable. I didn\u2019t have a chance to get a Koblenz postcard, breaking my string of city postcards. Along the way, there was a huge accident on the Belgian Autobahn. Quickly following the lead of an Alfa Romeo driver, we backed down the on ramp and proceeded through the side streets. Wesley did a good job of keeping behind the Alfa Romeo – I am sure we would have been SOL without him. After about 45 minutes of city driving we were back on the Autobahn near Brussles. We finally arrived in Brugges. I wish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-1998","tag-europe1998"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/2366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clubjosh.com\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}