• Patershol Festival Day 1 of 3

    August 9, 2024 in Belgium ⋅ 🌙 68 °F

    Sometimes we stumble upon the most interesting things. Today it was a three day festival of Patershol. If you’d come into this neighborhood 15 years ago, you’d have been able to pick up a home for back taxes or 1€. Today the neighborhood of Patershol is vibrant, car-less, and full of restaurants. For the next three days it is also full of live music, food carts and plenty of beer. We discovered a band playing French zydeco, and African reggae in English. We made friends with our table mates who turn out to own an American WWII restored Willy jeep, and were happy to give us a list of the best Ghent restaurants.

    We left tapping our feet and with hearts in awe of the places we find ourselves.
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