Brugge, city of a thousand photos / canals

In Amsterdam we really made up for lost time - canal cruise, Keukenhof (tulip gardens) Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum were stunning. Public transport - trams and buses were good to our area and we took different routes so we saw quite a bit of Amsterdam coincidentally! On Saturday we took a bus to a fishing village on the Zuiderzee and a boat to Marken - a quaint touristy town that was on an island but is now connected by a causeway. The weather was equal to their summer weather - lucky us! Then our ticket allowed us to travel on to Edam and that was an absolute delight - canals, draw bridges, narrow cobbled streets, tradional old buildings, ducks, boats and domed bridges.
On the day we left Amsterdam, we took our cases to the bus and because it was Sunday morning, we all fitted. Our fast train to Antwerp was a luxury Thalys train stopping at Schiphol airport, Rotterdam and running in late to Antwerp. We had " mins to make our connection - Irene yelled run so I did and we all dived in to the lasr carriage, luckily finding seats easily - no wonder ... it was first class. The lovely conductor let us stay. MMMMMMM an upgrade!
Arriving at Brugge at 1.30 we walked until 10.15 with a couple of rest stops, so we saw about half of Brugge on the first day, including the canals illuminated.
This morning we took a boat tour of the canals and we found the Church of Our Lady where I saw my first Michelangelo 'live' - a marble Madonna & Child. Beautiful - the only piece that left Italy in his lifetime and one of the few to ever leave.
We have been eating good breakfasts and midday meals so we just have a light snack in the evenings usually followed by cards - Murder & Damnation (thanks Anna) or 500.
Tomorrow we go to Ghent for the day, then off to Paris after saying goodbye to Jan.
Cheers to all
Sue