Homeless in Brugge Belgium

After paying our respects at the Poziers War Memorial in northern France the trip continued. We were headed basically north into Belgium with our stop for the night expected to be the old city of Brugge. The ride distance was a relatively short 180kms but the traffic was heavy and the weather attacked us on several occasions during the day.
As had been our normal operating procedure since the very outset from England we did not make bookings with hotels along the way. The simple reason was that we were not always certain of our next stopping point. We had no real idea at this stage of the trip to what degree the roads, the traffic and the weather would affect our progress and hence the exact location of overnight stops.
The one thing for certain was the fact that weather conditions till now had played a huge role in our physical condition and hence our ability to forge ahead.
On our arrival on the outskirts of Brugge I had plugged into the Garmin Zumo GPS to find "lodgings". The Novatel came up and I instructed the Garmin to "take us there". Little did we know the city had been significantly closed down to traffic by a huge fun run and bicycling event. The cops were out in force diverting traffic away from our Novatel destination so we ended up "homeless in Brugge" unless we were able to find alternate lodgings.
As usual, we were cold, wet and hungry so the search for a place to rest had to begin just before nightfall.