Sophie’s Sweets & Chocolates
New city, new chocolates to try (and the Pâtes de fruits were not bad either)
Adventure 2026
Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station
Why do US trains suck so much? We do have beautiful stations here and there but the actual train part of the journey isn’t great.
Zoetse
Ice cream sitting on the canal…no complaints here.
Frituur Bij Sint-Jacobs SYMPA
Frites in Belgium sitting on the canal…no complaints here. (OK, ice would have been nifty)
Belfry of Ghent
Old city, old bell tower…the shame was it involved an elevator for part of the trip and not hundreds of steps 😉 Favorite part (outside of the view from the […]
St Baro’s
A beautiful church but the star of the show here is the Ghent Altarpiece, a stunning artwork kept in glass in the church.
Labath
Nice little coffee shop not far off the path in Gent.
Saint Michael’s Church
More St Michael! He was here as a statue, in the stained glass, as statue again, in art and as statue outside. Possibly the most badass church ever? Oh, there […]
St Michael’s Bridge
St Michael is everywhere on Adventure 2026!
Marjolaine
It’s places like this that we love to find when we travel… We had just finished dinner (savory waffles, yum!) and started to head for a walk when we saw […]