Hotel Den Yzer Gent Ghent
Vlaanderenstraat 117 Ghent, East Flanders, 9000, Belgium
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Belgian waffles!
... know they started here? I then explained to the tram conductor that I accidentally got on the wrong tram and he said to just stay on and he would let me know where my stop was. When I got off and found the street I was looking for I was hoping there would only be one big apartment building since I had no clue what I was looking for. Of course this wasn't the case, there were many huge apartment buildings lining the street. I turned in circles for a minute like I was going to guess ...
Kwaak
... t make it work. Dammit. Belgian beer has a pretty high alcohol content... there in lies the problem. The drunker you get, the less likely you are to be successful at this quacking business. Oh well. Round two, was the most awesome beer ever- Delirium Tremens. BEST. BEER NAME. EVER. !!!!!!!!!!!!!. EVEN NEATER, the glass is dotted with lil pink elephants. My new favorite beer. =) Somehow Chris and I managed ...
Bruselas
Y nos fuimos de Francia!!! Esto suponía un cambio significativo. Pasamos de tener siempre alguien que hablaba español, a un idioma totalmente desconocido. En Bélgica se hablan dos idiomas oficiales, el Francés y el Dutch (Holandés). Si bien este último es MUY parecido al alemán (entendemos, por escrito, un 60% de lo que se lee, porque hablado es muuuy diferente!!), igual era otro idioma. Y la mayoría no habla inglés, cosa que es habitual en otros países de Europa. Por ...
We (heart) Gent part 1
... mood so I stood up and walked over to
their table and we started chatting about our respective trips.
Goedroen tells me that they were from the greatest city in the ...
Rain and sunshine
... didn't last too long, so we where able to get a good day around the small town of Ghent. Although small, it has a remarkable amount of places to see, and one of the few places where there's a castle, peoples tower, church and cathedral all next to eachother.
Beer is almost a religion here (though we've yet to find the church), with usually a menu 3 times the size ...


