Ghent

 On the next day of our stay in Belgium, we went to another beautiful city, Ghent which is between Brussels, Bruges and Antwerp. Known as Gent in Flemish and Gand in French. It features medieval buildings, canals and a host of tourist attractions. There are several interesting museums and galleries and some pretty parks and gardens. One of the tourist Attractions we visited in Ghent was the Gravensteen which means in Dutch "castle of the count". After that, we walked around the city and had drinks in one of the coffee shops there. We didn't stay there until night coz we decided to visit Dennis' friend who was living in Antwerpen. But it's geat to visit some parts of Belgium for a shor time.

Exploring Brussels!

It is very cool when you travel to different places other than on your own country. Just to explore how's going here in the world. You feel so much lucky  if you have experience that.. I  wish it would happened this for me. But nothing is impossible. If  I do really like it, I need to put effort just to make it. So I was so glad when I knew that this weekend we would visit Belgium, the soutch border country of Netherlands. It's  easy to reach via car so we travelled for two hours from Vlissingen to Brussels. I just allowed Dennis to make plan where we would go and what we would do there. Dennis told me that we would go to Brussels and Ghent and sleep in the house of his friend.  That's our plan! But when we arrived in Brussels and going out in the car, I'm a little bit confused why we should bring our things to the Renaissance Brussels Hotel. I asked Dennis what we would do there. He told me that we would sleep there for a night. I was suprised beacuse this was different from what I´m expecting for. I was so happy and suprised coz that was my first time to sleep in a classy Hotel. It´s very comfortable and modern with friendly staff. I didn´t also expect that I would met Filipino Students who were doing their training on that Hotel. But the most important  to visit Belgium was to see the beauty of its capital, Brussels or Bruxelles in French.

Brussels is hastily acquiring a credit as one of the Europe´s must see destinations, with its small town charm, classic architectural style, trendy bars and restaurants, fabulous food, great nightlife, fantastic shopping and quirky museums. We strolled around the city and visit some tourist attractions such as the Manneken Pis, Brussels Christmas Market, St. Michael & Gudula Cathedral, and Sound and light show at Grand-Place. Of  Course! We didn´t miss to try Belgian chocolates, waffle and beer which Belgium was very popular with it. I also did ice skating here for the first time where I had my muscle sprain on my knee coz I didn't do good in skating but I'm lucky that there  were some French People who helped me to stand well.  I'm very thankful with them even we didnt understand each other coz they dont speak Dutch and English.