Your Bruges

09/08/2025

📚 New Book Alert – How Not to Lose the Plot 📚

After thousands of walking tours through Bruges, countless questions, a few strange encounters, and more than one moment of “Did that really just happen?”… I’ve finally put it all into a book.

How Not to Lose the Plot: A Field Guide to Guiding Without Imploding is my humorous, illustrated survival manual for tour guides — part satire, part hard-earned wisdom, and entirely in my “Just Andy” style.

Whether you’re a guide, a frequent traveler, or just someone who enjoys behind-the-scenes stories, you’ll find tales of real-life guiding absurdities (all true, even the unbelievable ones), lessons learned the hard way, and a few tips for surviving with your sanity intact.

Available now on Amazon: http://bit.ly/3UQhNvl

Guiding is a serious profession…
…that sometimes needs a good laugh.

🏰 Tour guiding: part theatre, part therapy, part tactical survival. Inside, you’ll find: Perfect for:

02/08/2025

🎉📣 IT’S HERE!! 📣🎉
After years of guiding, months of writing, and several emotional breakdowns involving whisper systems, pigeons, and a clipboard that haunts my dreams…

📘 How Not to Lose the Plot: A Field Guide to Guiding Without Imploding
…is now officially LIVE on Amazon!

This book is for:
✔️ Tour guides (active, recovering, or in denial)
✔️ Travellers who’ve ever wondered “is this normal?” (it’s not)
✔️ Anyone who enjoys stories that are 70% true, 30% trauma
✔️ People who love Bruges, chaos, waffles, or all three

Inside:
🧠 Real advice (sort of)
🎭 Real situations (too real)
😂 Illustrated absurdity (yes, that whisper mic is on fire)
…and some hard-earned wisdom hiding behind the sarcasm.

👇 Grab your copy now:
📖 Paperback
📱 eBook
📕 Hardcover (for dramatic table presence)

👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKZ3KPJ7

Thanks to all who inspired this madness.
And remember: Mute. Before. The toilet break. 🚽🎤

20/07/2025

Tomorrowland for the very first time!
As a tour guide in Bruges, this was a whole different kind of journey — one with dragons, beats, lasers, and magical vibes at every corner.

I’ve traveled the world, guided thousands through medieval streets, seen plenty of concerts and festivals…
But this?
By far the most breathtaking, joyful, and mind-blowing event I’ve ever experienced.
Along the way I saw a set of Hyalyte and it was on fire 🔥 Great guy, cool dj and friendly!

From cobblestones to confetti — Just Andy was here! 😎✨

15/07/2025

Some people leave footprints in the city — others leave a review that makes you stop and smile.

This lovely family joined me for a 3-hour walk through Bruges, and reading what they wrote afterwards… well, let’s just say my heart did a little tour of its own.

A private tour isn’t just about facts and dates. It’s about laughter, questions (absurd ones too!), detours, and seeing the city with fresh eyes — together.

Thanks again — and yes, I’ll be ready when you’re back. Bruges has more stories up her sleeve.

🏰✨
Just Andy.
.lovely.little.life

11/07/2025

🇧🇪 Today, July 11th, is the Flemish holiday — and what better moment to zoom in on this colourful little map of Belgium? ⚫️🟡🔴

Three languages, one country… and still not enough words to describe how surreal it can get here sometimes.
Dutch in the north, French in the south, a splash of German in the east… and right in the middle? Brussels. Speaking both. Fighting over traffic signs. Loving waffles equally.

So to all the Belgians out there: bonne fête, fijne feestdag, schönen Feiertag!
To everyone else: welcome to a country that’s small in size, but grand in linguistic acrobatics.

Because whether you say “Ik hou van België”, “J’aime la Belgique”, or “Ich liebe Belgien”…
We’re all speaking the same chocolatey language. 🍫

🎶 Song: “Bruxelles je t’aime” by
Because who else could sing it better