Elma
In Bruges is a 2008 film about Irish gangsters. Why they are in the medieval Belgian city is part of a ridiculously convoluted plot. I did not see the film until after I had actually been to Bruges on a tour of the waterways of Holland and Belgium sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Alumnae Association. It was a strange sensation to see the sights I had just seen while wandering the city with a bunch of elderly Badgers.
Bruges was an important trading center from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, particularly known for textiles, until the inlet to the sea silted up cutting off the trade routes. The city then went to sleep, preserving its medieval character. It is now a huge tourist destination. One of the things everyone does in Bruges is to take a boat tour of the city by canal.
Views of the city center from the canals.