Ghent

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Ghent was our second stop on this bus tour. Many people told me I should visit Ghent when I am in Belgium next time, and that’s what we did. Now I know that a couple of hours is not enough, and I hope that sometime in my next life, I will be able to come to Belgium at a minimum for a week and spend more time in each of the cities visiting all the castles and museums.

Ghent is amazing and impossibly charming, even in the weather like it was!

Our tour guide said that this building was the home for the first Belgium trade union. I didn’t get a chance to verify this information yet 🙂
This bell tower ou the Market square rang the start and end of the market
Enen t this time of te year and at this weather, the city is full of tourists
We didn’t have time to visit the museum un the city castle; next time!
Antwerp made money on spices, and Ghent – on grain. The grain was
Somehow, this view of Ghent looks a lot like a 17th century painting of Ghent 🙂
I just realized that I never got a good shot of St.Bavo, a little bit of it shows on the right.
Th Belgians say that the Big Ben was copied from this tower 🙂
A new pavilion which was erected to protect the outdoor concerts from the element. We were told that the reaction of the public was very similar to the Chicagoans reaction at Pritzker Pavilion 🙂
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