Today we went on a day trip to Ghent, which we loved.  It is a really picturesque little town, with massive cool building in every direction you turn.  We went into several cathedrals and generally wandered around lots of historical stuff.  Very cool.

We saw quite a few buildings in this sort of style, very elaborate, with mythical figures attached in some way.  This one was particulaly cool.

We have founds so many cathedrals in Brussels, just walking around we seem to find more and more.  This one was very beautiful inside, and very detailed on the outside also.  We also had a view over the city from up here.

We have seen loads of cool buildings similar to this, some have crazy paintings and others have random things stuck to them (like plates, creatures, rope and tiles).  Basically they are really old and cool.

It’s a good thing we haven’t been counting how many chocolates we’ve eaten… they are so yummy.  Our favourites include the highest cocoa content ones, cherry (which have a real cherry inside), all the pralines, I guess basically all of them.  Mmmmmm Chocolate.

Here is Dre with a selection of 3 beers that he chose based on the pretty colours of the bottles.  There are so many to choose from, they even have strawberry, cherry and rasberry.  Also they are all about 8% alcohol so are quite strong.  Each beer comes with it’s own specially shaped glass to maximise the drinking experience.

When we first arrived in Brussels this morning, we managed to get very very lost, it started pouring with rain, and even the policewoman that we asked for directions didn’t really know where we were going.  Embarrassingly, it turns out our hotel is about 50 metres from the train station, but it took us an hour to get here.  It was very eerie when we got here, as today all the streets in the centre were closed for the Brussels Marathon.  When we got out of the train station it was so quiet, we wondered what was going on!  But have it all figured out now.  We have spent most of the day exploring the city and have a fairly good idea of the layout and how to get most places now.  So far we love it here.  It has a very relaxed feel, but there are so many things to do!  It’s surprisingly not that busy with tourists, and tonight when we went for a long walk after dinner there weren’t many other people around on the streets, which makes a nice change from London and Edinburgh (where the Fringe Festival meant the city was buzzing).  We are looking forward to exploring more over the next few days.

This is the main square in Brussels, ‘Grand Place’.  The buildings are absolutely amazing, the architecture is beautiful.  We had planned to go here but luckily stumbled across it within a couple of hours of arriving, the museum here has loads of interesting stuff, but the square itself is the main beauty and what draws most people.  Definitely a highlight so far.