Richard Kettlewell

We had a day trip to Ghent. Where Brussels has St Michael, Ghent prefers dragons. This is the Belfort, topped by one:

Inside, an earlier model:

Bell with N for scale:

The carillon can be driven from a keyboard or a drum:

Practice keyboard for the carillon (notice the small bells inside):

Ghent has bendy busses and trams (we used the latter):

Sint-Niklaaskerk:

More Ghent.

Design museum. The basement was very chair-themed:

Some of the display cases had these little figures in:

Chair by Allesandro Mendini. Opposite the chair was a video of the creator sitting in it, apparently on a roof, explaining his thoughts.

More design museum.

We visited the Gravensteen, literally “castle of the count”.

View south from Gravensteen. Neptune stands over the entrance to the fish market.

By the river. I’ve no idea.

More castle.

(“Ghent” is the English spelling; in Flemish it’s spelled “Gent”, and in French “Gand”).

All holiday articles:

1. Brussels
2. Ghent
3. Bruges
4. Food