Recently, I discovered this website: ‘beeldbank Brugge’ (Image bank Bruges), where you can find a collection of historical pictures of Bruges. There are some predefined topic-collections, but you can also search on keywords. Only one negative point: the website is currently only available in Dutch.

Here are some of the collections (you can use Yahoo Babel fish to translate them):

• Holiday and tourism Bruges
• Bruges religious heritage
• Bruges Market
• Movie theatres and experiences in Bruges

Last month, Bruges famous chocolatier Dominique Persoone received an award for his book ‘The roots of Chocolate’ at the ‘Gourmand World Cookbook Awards’ in the category ‘Best Chocolate Book’. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards were founded in 1995 by Edouard Cointreau. In 2008, books from 102 countries participated in these prestigious awards. It is free, and open to all languages