I was apprenticing at a restaurant in Belgium I'm a connoisseur of the culinary arts, so I figured, where better to learn about them than in one of the premiere restaurant in French-speaking Belgium, namely Le Nie, in the heart of Bruges? So, much to my mother's dismay, I booked myself a flight and took off alone to meet my culinary destiny. When I arrived in Bruges, I found my way to my hostel, where I met a lovely Norwegian girl who introduced herself as Sieglinde who seemed to share my intere…