gent, belgium

gent, ghent, gand ~ what a beautiful flemish city, my dears. i have visited many famous, big, historic, unesco heritage listed, exotic and other cities this year ~ heidelberg, NY, jerusalem, aqaba, petra, lucerne, schaffhausen, hanoi, dinkelsbuehl, dillingen, weissenburg, ... but gent was the biggest positive surprise for me and probably the nicest of all :-). why? i do not even know .... maybe because the street we lived in (vlaanderenstraat #54) looked like the main street in my native city of kosice, slovakia? or maybe because we didn't expect anything special, didn't inform ourselves before the arrival and just visited it because our belgian friend told us we should better visit gent than bruegge? anything completely different? who knows? anyway, the number and the beauty of so special old buildings and the friendly flair there was just overwhelming. wed liked also our flat-like appartment 😍, today it is probably airbnb

 

 

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more pictures here.

anything else? coming soon or never

groede (north sea), holland

a nice sunny day? let's go to the sea :-). well, our belgian friend told us she goes most often to groede, holland because there are much less people than at the belgian beaches and she has warned us there is nothing but the beach + sea ... what? just beach + the sea? well, after 2 days of walking in cities of heidelberg + dierdorf + antwerpen was an empty beach the best what we could imagine😄

few pictures made on the way from antwerp (belgium) to the beach in groede (netherlands):

kaprijke / belgium

still in belgium

... arrived in holland

netherlands? let's climb up to the sea :-)

'our' north sea beach close to groede

lunch time

did you miss a windmill?

more pictures here

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antwerp, belgium (antwerpen, belgien)

antwerp? antwerpen? anvers? holland or belgium? well, unlike i have many years thought, antwerp is really in belgium, located in the flemish area called flanders.

 a strange and so nice part of our hotel antigone

a view from our hotel room

anno 1911

at the river scheldt (schelde)

city hall

 my dear justitia standing in antwerp' city hall (unfortunately, justice is something different)

prudentia

 the unesco listed cathedral with paintings by p.p.rubens

coat of arms

enjoy more pictures from antwerp here

 

let's go to gent (belgium) next.

anything else? coming soon or never 😉