Send Flowers to Bruges, Belgium

Most people know Bruges as a postcard: the Belfry rising over the Markt, swans on the canals, and the whitewashed Beguinage where daffodils cover the lawn each spring. Behind that image is a working Flemish city. Its medieval core, a World Heritage site that residents call the egg because of its shape, lies inside a ring of canals. Beyond it are the residential districts of Sint-Andries, Sint-Michiels, Sint-Kruis and Assebroek, and further north the port and beach of Zeebrugge on the North Sea.

Flowers ordered from abroad go to lifelong residents, to people working in the hotels, restaurants and chocolate shops, to international students at the College of Europe and to patients at AZ Sint-Jan hospital. For a hotel guest, give the name on the booking and the dates of the stay. Car traffic in the old town is restricted and the cobbled lanes are narrow, so the florist often covers the last stretch on foot; a phone number avoids a wasted trip.

For flower delivery in Bruges, order before midnight local time and the bouquet arrives the next day, Monday to Saturday. No deliveries are made on Sundays or public holidays. That includes Ascension Day, when the Procession of the Holy Blood passes through the streets and the whole city turns out to watch.

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