I wish I knew the name of the chocolate place in Bruges! We went on an organized day tour and that’s where the guide took us, saying it was an older place with good prices (which from what we could tell was true.)

As for the beer — yeah, I meant that we didn’t know about the kashruth of the *flavored* beers so we stuck to regular, non-flavored beer, which to us was…beer.

The beers, as far as I know (and obviously based on your own level of kashrut), are fine as long as they do not have any flavor additives. So we had a good selection of beers to try and they were mag-ni-fi-cent. We passed on some of the fruity beers since they were obviously brewed with other ingredients and had no local halachic authority to fall back on. We had some chocolate but I can’t recall from where (I wanna know what the name of this store in Brugge is!).

The waffles. Oh the waffles. Please someone make a kosher one. I plead this to the entire Belgian Jewish community. It was a crime being in Belgium and not being able to have one of those waffles. Or the frites for that matter. Waffles and frites. Please.

I got to pray with the local minyan on a Sunday morning at the Great Synagogue, but we had minyan because I was there. It was summer, so who knows, maybe people were out, but I got the feeling that the community was just that small, at least in the city center. We never found any of the local kosher restaurants (without a car, we stuck to the old center), though we did find the enclosed, heavily protected, tucked-away JCC that had an attached restaurant, except they were closed on Sundays. Sigh.

It’s been a few years, and based on the above it seems there’s been a bit more organization geared towards Jewish tourists. Which is good, cause otherwise I would stay in Antwerp and daytrip into Brussels.