Gent in Sepia

pronounced like the E in Gent sounds like an A. ( Gant) but add the funky Flemish rolling G...anyway, it's a very cool place.

S. had spoken to a French couple that said not to bother going there. This was my 2nd time here and I knew that was not in the least true. I loved it more this time. I wish I had spent 2 to 3 days.

No real time for shopping, and the shopping is good.

I have not seen all of the museums either. 

The Guild Houses in Ghent along the Graslei are among the most important from the renaissance era. The top photograph shows, from right to left: the rear of the Post Office (1910), the House of Free Boatmen (1531), the House of Grainweighers (1698), the tiny Custom House (1682), the Grain warehouse (1200), and the House of Masons (1527). The grain warehouse from 1200 is one of the oldest commercial buildings in Belgium.