W.C.


In bygone times, these outside toilets could be found everywhere. A few are still to be found here and there near the "godshuizen" (literally "God's houses", that is, houses for the poor), but with each restoration, they are just torn down since, evidently, people now have comfortable toilets inside their houses. I saw several of those w.c.'s disappear, last year, near the godshuisjes numbers 46-58 in the Visspaan street. The oldest café in Bruges, café Vlissinghe, still has one. And this one here is right outside the Lace Museum.













