Hotel the Boatel Ghent
Voorhoutkaai 44 Ghent, East Flanders, 9000, Belgium
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Final Morning and Final Thoughts
... for the Eurostar, future visitors! The train is packed, so we spend the hour journey sitting on our suitcases by the doorway, and we disembark with our fellow Brit passengers at the correct station (much to our relief).Time for a final hot chocolate – alas, not a beer – at Brussels and it’s finally time to board the Eurostar back to London…
Probably ...
Day 3 – Anniversary walks, carriage rides an
... dinner! But with no plan in mind – and that scourge of the 21st century: TOO MUCH CHOICE! – we wander around aimlessly trying to decide who would be our culinary hosts for the night. Too expensive… too cheap… too busy… too quiet… not enough variety… nothing we want to eat here….
Eventually we do what all good tourists do… we succumb to a nice warm restaurant, offering a set ...
Belgian waffles!
... the other way, still nothing happened. Elien the roommate heard me trying to un-lock the door and she tried to open it from the inside. She then let's me know that I did something wrong and she was locked in and I was locked out so I did what always works. I hit it really hard and it opened! I had never really thought about being in the country where the Belgian waffles obviously came from and being able to eat one while I was here until Sharon mentioned it to me yesterday and I ...
Kwaak
... back at the hostel just to give my allergies a rest. Then we went out for dinner at a Morroccan place. We tried Morroccan food back home once and it was a total bust. The place ripped us off. The food we had in Ghent was amazing, though. Two different kinds of couscous, and we finished it off with mint tea. Delicious. =)
So, Diana's daddy- we really liked Ghent. Thanks for telling us to come here. =)
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The plan
... we provide to drive in about eight months, leaving Belgium in April 2011.
But first things first. So we had to get this Iltis turning again. No gear, no brake's, cabels missing and a also a lot of bolds. With the aid of some mechanics we completed this goal, and on the 3th of March '09 she was roaring again. The positive side of this part, that we got some experience and a little knowledge of the ...


