Just wanted to share our experience during our stay here.
We are a on a 3 week trip across Europe. Our first stop was at Paris and we (me and my wife) were there for 3 days before we came here (Ghent) and with how people call it the city of love we didn't really feel that way with all the crowds and the line ups and the dirty streets and the not so clean train stations. And to be fair the city has a lot of tourists so it's kinda understandable i suppose.
But right after Paris, when we got to Ghent, it was a complete change of scene. With no hustle or bustle, the calm serene atmosphere, the pretty streets, the beautiful canals, the architecturally brilliant churches, the wonderful people, and the list goes on. Everything is pretty here. I couldn't stop clicking pictures. I don't know if it's probably us cos of the vacation/ or of it was the Paris effect or something but in general feels like everything moves in a slow pace here.
Everyone seems super friendly: a couple of anecdotes i would like to share especially from my trip: me and my wife typical tourists as we are were clicking selfies on the St.Michaels bridge and a couple of school kids (i think) who went by us just stopped for a second and this one kid genuinely asked me if we were having a good time and i was kinda surprised at first but then was like wow that was really nice of him to ask. I don't know why he did that but made us feel more at home. Felt really good.
Another instance when we were walking around and looking around for the graffiti street (Google maps and our GPS really took us around the city for this) and we had a beer bottle in hand and were not sure how the recycling worked. We were carrying it with us for a long time not knowing how to dispose it. We didn't want to dump it in the garbage bin, nor did we notice any recycle bins on the streets we walked around. So finally we randomly asked this person who was just walking past us about this and he was like "don't worry about this, im literally few metres away from my place i ll take your bottle, i care about the city and wouldn't mind doing this." And he also thanked me for taking the effort. Kinda showed the spirit that runs in the city.
All in all a really wonderful couple of days we had here. Would love to come back so much so that my wife has already suggested to leave everything and move here one day.
Thanks for having us Ghent/Gent, We had an amazing time :)
Submitted September 28, 2019 at 07:11PM by PongalVada https://ift.tt/2m3bc48
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