Day 26 Bardolino to Ghent, Belgium.

Not much to write about as our travelling day has been so exhausting. Am thinking that surely I’ve lost a couple of the kilos piled on from eating pasta and pasta for days, as have hardly eaten today and it feels like we’ve run a marathon! 6 45am walk to Bardolino bus, 7am 30 min bus to Peoshera Del Garda railway station, 5 minutes later board train for Milan station, 9 am taxi to Milan Linate airport, 10 am check in for 1pm flight to Brussels, plane arrives in Brussels 1 and half hour later, collected bags, went downstairs to catch regional train to Gent (very helpful staff again to assist with getting the ticket), left 5 minutes later. Just reading that makes me tired let alone the fact we were also hungry, thirsty, lugging bags and not losing things or eachother. But wait there is more- got taxi from Gent station to our accomodation to find the air conditioning has broken down and we are entitled to full refund. We therefore spent 30 minutes finding another hotel nearby. Well there is a silver lining. We dragged the suitcases yet another 10 minutes over uneven cobblestones to check in at a much nicer hotel. A little bit more expensive but worth every cent after today. Always knew today would be challenging but the end result truly is being in a lovely city now for the next three days.Read more