The whole day I was imprisoned in my room, trying to finish revising the second draft of my thesis introduction. Because it was bright and sunny, I kept glancing outside my window, daydreaming about aimlessly loitering around Leuven.
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| A view from the boat. |
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| Horse carriage. |
I also daydreamed about travelling to Brugge, one of Belgium's touristic spots. It would be a waste not to share these photos taken by my sister's bestfriend when she visited me last year. We went to Brugge on such a beautiful sunny late autumn morning. Because we envied the people riding on the boat, we took a 20-minute cruise around Brugge. The canal scenery was more like the one in Venice, Italy. The boat drivers in Brugge, on the other hand, were not wearing striped shirts. If I remember it right the boat ride was around 15 euros. We also wanted to ride on the horse carriage; unfortunately, day length was too short as it was approaching winter. By the time we finished walking around and we wanted to ride on the horse carriage, the sky was already bleeding darkness.
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| Glancing at people on the boat. |
I also enjoyed looking at the swans. So huge yet so graceful. Because they have gotten used to being around people, they were very tamed. While I was feeding them with bread crumbs, they accidentally bit me! It felt like two hammers pounded my finger tips from two sides.
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| Swans in the middle of the canal. |
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| Feeding the swans. |
I would love to go back to Brugge this Spring. Can't wait to see my swan friends again. In the meantime, I need to head back to the lab tomorrow. They told me it's a holiday. But who cares about holidays if you're living alone in a foreign country and the people you love are miles and miles away?
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