before sunset:
and later on with a chap demonstrating fire:
but look behind the food tables and what do we see ? all the music and the authentic medieval fine wine and modern lager. we weren’t actually transported through time after all:
Ghent has canals all over the place so there’s loads of lovely reflections everywhere. but here’s a nice shadow.
Ghent has got loads of towers, three of which are in a row. i spotted two of them reflected in this traffic mirror with the other one in front.
and this one is just of the other one with the sun going down.
the conference organisers organised (!) a trip to Ghent city hall last night. this included a neat guided tour behind the scenes.
here is the city crest and a statue of someone wearing glasses
and here is the royal ‘thrown’ in the thrown room. i guess the relevant dignatory wouldn’t have used it with his subjects watching. but it was cunningly disguised as padded stool. it’s a stool for stools:
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i’m staying in an old monastry. i thought it’d be all churchy, but the bit i’m in is a mid-70s annex so not quite as nice. however, it is a massive room with a ceiling higher than the room is wide.
and it’s got its own kitchen. this is the first hotel i’ve stayed in where they give you a cooking hob, pans and washing up sink.
they also denied they had any Internet access, saying i needed to use the phone line. but then i had a wifi snoop and found this a free spot.
lucky us – that means fresh content for all !
