Belgium - Gent (Gand)

Gent is located in the Flemish part of Belgium. Personnally, and maybe because of my French arrogance, I thought everyone would speak both French and Flemish. But it was not the case at all!

We arrived in Gent on the afternoon, and tried to find some change to pay the parking place. Asking for some change in a bar, we met Caroline, a very nice French-speaking girl, who offered to lead us around the city. And it was a very nice tour!
The architecture of Gent is similar to Brugge's, but the city is livelier, and full of "real" people, meaning not only invaded by tourists...

The cathedral St Bavon is very impressive, as are all the typical houses close to the main canal.

Caroline told us that the canals going through the city were once dried, but now the city government was trying to rehabilitate them, to make the city prettier...

Many works were going on in the city center, but the city seems a very nice place to live. Enjoying a beer on a terrasse, swimming in a new-built canal, or admiring the contrast between new constructions and old traditionnal buildings, time flew quite fast in Gent!