Ghent, Capital of beer

Ghent, is a 7th century university city. Less "touristic". I thought it was even better than Bruges.

Beer was originally a way to purify water, as the water was undrinkable. There was even children's beer.
Then they discovered the beer got even better as the water quality improved.

There's hundreds of varieties.

The guide said there's an accepted tradition that Belgian's steal, take home, beer glasses. Each beer has a glass with the name on it, so people collect the glasses. Well....when in Belgium.... I took home my beer glass!

There's a pub though that sells a 1.25 litre glass of beer. This actually costs them a lot to lose so they now take one of your shoes as security and hang it in a cage from the ceiling. You get your shoe back when you return your glass. Apparently there's a lot of Uni students with odd shoes!!Les mer