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Haydn Tour - April 2016 - Ghent Page |
Ghent
Sunday 17th April 2016
At Ostend, I turned off onto the motorway to Gent (that's how they spell it), which was quite a dense experience but I did stop & ask a young man who gave me imprecise but correct information & just managed to spot the Hotel Ibis opposite the cathedral. I had to go the wrong way up a one way street to get to its garage. I had not known there was one, as booking.com said there wasn’t. Normal Ibis room. We asked the reception girl which way to walk & did so. We stopped for a coffee in the square outside St. Baaf’s Cathedral, which was in scaffolding. The coffees were tiny, though.
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Everywhere you look, there is an attractive vista in this old city. We had a look in St Nicholas’ Church.
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We went towards the river, to the castle & a bit further, failing to find a restaurant but there was the Restaurant Neptune opposite the castle & we had pork medallions, big ones & lots of different vegetables. It had drizzled a bit before we got there but had been sunny before & was, after. |
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Left is the City Tower of the Town Hall & below, the Market Hall. Back at the hotel, I paid the toll on-line with little difficulty & it was only £3. We lounged in the Lounge & read. I had put the photos in Pip (my working laptop MacBook Pro) but only edited the masters. |
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