Brugge

Brugge, or Bruges, depending on your linguistic affiliation, is a UNESCO World Heritage site and rather more impressive than the heaps of rubble you might find elsewhere. An amazingly well preserved collection of mainly medieval brick houses and other Gothic buildings with random canals thrown in for artistic good measure. Inevitably the "Venice of the North" (another one!) and consequently inundated with American tourists, even in winter. Outrageously over-priced, but still probably worth the financial pain to wander amongst the bars, cafes and overwhelming masterpieces of Gothic and vernacular architecture. Not bad food if you are prepared to pay the exorbitant prices; otherwise horrible, expensive steak and chips, mussels and chips (a particular Belgian abomination) pizza and burgers much beloved of the tourist industry. Of course the usual tasteless tits and bums of Belgian "culture" with plentiful beers and chocolate for good measure. If it were not so stupidly expensive it would no doubt feature as the ultimate stag weekend destination! Watch out for the "silent death", the ubiquitous Flemish bicycles, seemingly oblivious to pedestrians.