Passing Through - Ghent

Breakfast, pack up, bid farewell, and a short walk to the train station ... our bike/barge adventure wrapped up quickly this morning and we were in transit by 10am.

Destination: Ghent

After dropping our bags at the hotel, we hit the streets to see what we could see. We only got as far as the first corner before the aroma of good coffee stopped us in our tracks.

We squeezed a lot into today, including
* A general roam around the old centre and the main tourist sites.
* A tour of Hotel d'Hane Steenhuyse, an 18th century noble townhouse which is now open to the public as a 'house museum'. On the list of famous house guests (back in the day), King Louis XVIII, in exile from France, took refuge and held court here in 1815.
* Graffiti Street, a public canvas for street artists.
* A short tourist cruise to see the city from the water.

And we did justice to few Belgian beers as well.Read more