Today Simone and I drove to Belgium for the weekend. I had booked us 2 nights in a hotel in Gent, where we would spent at least the first 2 days. On the way there we did a bit of bunny hopping with a Ferrari.
A car that can go very fast but (sadly) has to stick to speed limits of 100km/h... Lovely car nevertheless!
Checking in was easy and we even managed to park the car in the underground hotel parking. After ditching our gear in the hotelroom we set out and walked in to town.
Gent is a very old city and its centre was build in times of great wealth.
After the tiring drive (we had incredible amounts of rain) we had our first rest in the sun. Naturally I had to have some Belgian brew!
And a waffle!
Against all odds the sun came out and made us a beautiful afternoon.
Gent has a few wonderful canals. Some with houses standing in the water. Gent likes to call itself the "Venice of the North" but we all know that Amsterdam is the only real Venice of the North now, do we? ;-)
At the end of the afternoon we went back to our hotel room for a little rest and to freshen up a bit. This was the view to the right.
And the view straight ahead. Not bad!
We walked back in to town at dusk to find us a lovely restaurant where we had a wonderful dinner.
It was a lovely afternoon and evening!
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