Nobel's Brood

In an attempt to get warm and out of the increasingly sleety weather, coffee beckoned. Nobel's Brood sits in the medieval streets next to the Grote Kerke, so we pulled up a high chair in the backroom. It was a fabulous little find, and we opted for Tea for Two, with coffee and four different cakes (brownie, madeleine, pastal de nata, and apple cake, plus a bonus lemon cake on the coffee saucer!). Absolutely delicious, and we couldn't have found a better, more atmospheric place to stop. As we tried to order, speaking no Dutch, the waitress shyly remarked that her English wasn't great either, and then proceeded to describe the cakes to us flawless English, utterly putting our language skills to shame!

Taking a slightly different route along another canal, we passed by more wonky houses on the way back to the Waterbus stop.Read more