Partway through the Paris leg of the trip, we broke off for a few days in Belgium — and it turned out to be one of the best decisions of the whole itinerary. Bruges Main Street Bruges is the kind of town that looks staged, except it isn’t. Canals thread through the entire city center, lined with stepped Gothic rooflines that look almost too perfect to be real. We took a boat tour along the canals, which ended up being the best way to see the city — low to the water, slipping