Danhauser Travel Blogs

  5/1/26– Our bus to Bruges, Belgium leaves at 8am, however, we still need to get to the bus station. Instead of dragging our luggage to the metro again I thought it best to call an Uber, which takes less than twenty minutes.  Turns out it arrives quicker than expected as we get dropped off forty minutes before our departure time. The wind is quite chill, and with no place to duck inside to escape the cold we opt to park ourselves under an overpass while we wait. Now I know what a hobo feels like. We board our Flix bus with assigned seats, however, there’s no place to put my large backpack conveniently as the overhead space is way too small. Once we start to drive, I find another open seat to spread out, of course that only lasts thirty minutes as more people board at the next stop. Luckily, I find another section of seats not taken and quietly enjoy the remainder of the four hour journey. That is until traffic delays us another hour.   We take an Uber from the tr...

  4/30/26– Over ten hours of sleep isn’t bad and I’m up before 8am. We purchased tickets for Keukenoff to see the tulip fields in bloom, with our bus not leaving until 11am. It should be another sunny day so I’m expecting very good picture opportunities. We leave our hotel around 10am, walk ten minutes to the train station to hop on the metro train, take the train four stops only to have to wait in a long line to board our bus that’ll take us to our destination. The line literally wraps around in a spiral. We could’ve cut the wait in half if we wanted to stand, but thirty minutes is way too long for that sort of nonsense. Finally we board only to have one seat available. We take turns switching off as the other sits on the elevated step.          Once there, we scan our ticket and are surrounded by hoards of zombified people making their way toward the gardens. I’m talking pets, kids, people in wheelchairs, it’s like Disneyland for flower lovers. Kelv...