Got out to Brugge, die skone this saturday to mingle with international tourists. (Incredible how many languages I heard speaking out on the streets there). The trip is only 20km for us but we got in full tourist mode (taking pictures like crazy et al) mostly to enjoy one of the last weekends that the missus is *NOT* in full tourist mode. Working on the family-run-campsite the term takes a different meaning from mid march to mid oktober.

Anyways, we had a splendid time and can recommend these ready made attractions in the city:

• Taking the Kabba (dutch only!) along: A booklet which provides 3 different search-walks for kids
• Visiting the Chocolate museum which was amusingly chauvinistic and pro-chocolate (two mild deficiencies I recognise within myself)

So yeah, the relation between overweight and chocolate is scientitifcally not proven, but the aphrodisiacal benefits of the productmight very well be just true :-). And belgian chocolate is just better then the rest (well, the swiss do a not too bad job) because of:

• Simply belgian law: All fat in chocolate over here needs to be chocolat-butter, any drop of different fat and you can't call it belgian chocolate.
• Chocolate grinding in Belgium goes down to a particle size of 20 microns (the rest of the world typically stops at 30-35, which is the scientific measured 'resolution' for the taste-awareness of the tongue anyway. Any automation engineer knowing Nyquist-Shannon will explain you why we got it right though :-)