Day 2, Brussels, Ghent, Brugge

 We arrived in Belgium about 20 minutes late , around 7:30 this morning,  and had a very long line to go through security. 

   Took almost 2 hours until we got out and met Ayold. He thought we had gotten lost. 

   All of our luggage came through,  for which we are very thankful. 

 Beautiful warm, sunny day, temp around 25C. 

    Raf, our city tour guide was also at the airport. We went on a city bus tour, and then about 1 hour walking tour, seeing old cathedrals, and going to the city square of Grand Place. Many beautiful ornate buildings.



Belgium is also famous for chocolates and we saw lots of chocolate shops. 

  I'm too tired to write more tonight, so will write more tomorrow about Ghent and Brugge. 

Ghent is considered the richest architectural city in Belgium. 

   Graveenstein castle in Ghent, Belgium where over a hundred Anabaptist were tortured and killed for their faith. 


One of the churches in Ghent
The steps leading up into the castle tower.
View of Ghent from the top of the castle.
The torture chamber. 

From Ghent we drove on to Brugge for the night. Very tired, but very thankful for safety, and beautiful weather. 



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