'Too much': Fairytale city of Bruges grapples with tourist overload
Inhabitants of Belgium's cobblestone-and-canal city of Bruges are clear: summertime tourism has hit capacity. The western city has a population of 119,000 and each year hosts eight million visitors -- most of them concentrated in the summer months, and most of them on day trips.
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00:00 [Children playing]
00:05 [Man speaking in foreign language]
00:10 [Water running]
00:15 [Children playing]
00:25 I've seen the people coming more and more to here.
00:31 Now they even come with boats.
00:34 There's a lot of trouble with that.
00:37 The people of Brugge say it's too much, it's too much, very too much some days.
00:42 [Children playing]
00:48 [Train running]
00:55 [People talking]
01:07 It's not that busy actually.
01:09 Going to somewhere that's as nice as Amsterdam or Florence or Venice but not as overrun.
01:19 I didn't think that this much people would be here.
01:23 [People talking]
01:39 [BLANK_AUDIO]