[Doorbell rings]
I didn’t know we had a doorbell.
Neither did I.
Hello!
How cool is this thing?
You need to ask for the password.
That’s what that’s for.
Hey!
It’s Way Away!
Hi guys!
Hi!
We’re on a night walking tour in Bruges with our friends from the Way Away!
Hello!
This is Josh and Ashley and they’re amazing travel vloggers.
They’ve been everywhere and they have an amazing channel.
We’re going to link in the description box below.
And Ashley had the fantastic idea of going on a walking tour.
Yes, thank you for that.
And we’re about to see some ghost houses
so kind of scared but I’m glad I’m in a group.
We have the pack to keep us safe.
I know.
For now, for now.
For now?
What does that mean?
One of us is going to go missing?
Our guide just took us to a haunted house
and the most interesting thing there turned out to be a bricked up window, which doesn’t sound exciting.
But he explained that the term ‘throwing money out the window’
actually comes from the tax that you used to have to pay per window.
So if you were rich and you didn’t feel like paying another tax on your window
you would just brick up the window.
And so you see a lot of those around Bruges.
What do you think of the Bruges night tour so far?
I really suggest, like, trying to do a…like, trying to explore a city at nighttime
and during the day. -Totally.
Because it looks completely different.
It’s a different place between the two times. -Yeah.
Some places have a nightlife.
Some just don’t have a nightlife at all and I think Bruges definitely has one.
But not in the areas that we’re exploring.
As evidenced by the guys that were shouting at us before.
Yeah.
Boring!
My favourite part of this whole tour is actually finding out the origins of certain phrases
that come from the medieval age, which I didn’t know.
Always fun.
Yeah.
And so one of them is the term ‘stinking rich.’
And it’s because, in the medieval time, if you were rich you were buried inside the church
and if you were poor you were buried outside the church.
And so bodies, obviously, when they are decomposing start to stink.
And so when people would be kneeling on the floor of the church to pray
you could smell the decomposing bodies of the rich who had just been buried.
Hence the term ‘stinking rich.’
We stopped outside a place called Cafe Vlissinghe which we actually have been to before.
It’s the pub that’s been a pub for more than five hundred years.
He was telling us about the origin of the term s***faced 💩
and - I don’t know if this is true or not - but the story works for me.
I’d like to think it’s true.
Yeah.
Back in the day when they used chamber pots to go to the bathroom
apparently they would stand at the window and yell ‘Watch out!’ or something like that
and then you had like two seconds to get out of the way before they would throw their whatever into the street.
And so if you’d been to the pub, you’d maybe had a few drinks at Cafe Vlissinghe,
then you might not react as quickly as your average person.
And so if someone yelled ‘Watch out!’ and you didn’t get out of the way
you would get s*** 💩 in your face.
Hence the term s*** 💩 faced meaning drunkeness.
So I don’t know if it’s true but I thought it was pretty good.
It’s a good story.
Oh thank you.
Thank you very much.
Have a nice evening!
Thank you!
Thank you. Bye.
Ooh!
That looks so good.
Whoa!
That looks good.
That looks good!
How does Belgian pizza compare to other pizzas?
It’s good.
It’s a little bready.
It’s not just a cheese pizza.
It’s got a little something extra.
I don’t discriminate when it comes to pizza.
So favourite city of 2017 so far?
I know you guys have been to a lot of cities here.
The place - honestly the place we went today.
What was it?
Bru- um no we’re in Bruges.
We’re in Bruges.
Liège.
Gen…Ghent?
Ghent! There we go!
That was a really cool city.
But I want to spend more time there
I spent like three hours there which is not enough.
But I really liked it and it’s…
I don’t know, it’s got me thinking.
You know?
Yeah, you were telling me that you could live there.
I…I…yeah.
After three hours I thought, ‘I could live here’.
Will you be living with Josh in Ghent?
Yeah well I… -Is he living alone?
Yeah!
We could have two separate houses.
Yeah.
In Belgium though because I think our favourite has been Belgium thus far maybe.
Yeah Belgium was…has been amazing.
Yeah.
Did you guys enjoy the night tour?
Yeah.
I really did!
I’ve never been on a night tour before and so it was really a cool experience.
Something different and this city, because it’s an old Gothic city,
it looks really eerie at nighttime so it was really cool to see.
Yeah.
For me, you get to learn the layout of the city.
Like just when you walk your mind makes a mental map
so, like, if you do it the first time you’re there,
like the morning of or the afternoon, you get to know the city
and then you feel like a pro when you’re walking back to your hotel or your Airbnb.
And then the next day you’re like, ‘Oh we should go to this place.
I saw it on the tour.’
Like it gives you a good layout.
It’s always one of the first things we do when we come to a city
because we see things that we really want to go back to and see.
I saw these waffles on a stick
and it wasn’t during the tour but I definitely know I want to go back.
I pointed those out.
I was like, ‘You might want to go back to that.’
Ok we’ll let you guys go.
You’re exhausted.
All right.
Thank you.
Goodnight!
I don’t think I said this before but Ashley and Josh are friends that we’ve made through YouTube
which is just so cool that…you know, I didn’t expect that when we started this adventure
earlier this year that we would actually meet other YouTubers and other people through this.
It’s just…it’s become this amazing way to meet new people who are watching
and then other people who are making videos like they are.
And we met them in Mexico when we started
and it’s just so cool to have our paths cross again here.
In another country across the world.
In Bruges, Belgium of all places.
So that was a really great suggestion that Ashley had to do this walking tour.
So we’re going to link Ashley and Josh’s channel Way Away in the description box
and we will also leave their video at the end of this.
So when you’re finished watching this video click on theirs and go subscribe
because they have some pretty awesome adventures over there.
So we loved hanging out with them.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed meeting them and going on this awesome night walking tour of Bruges.
And, if you haven’t already, then please subscribe to our channel for more travel videos
and we’ll see you in our next one.
Bye!