Ghent with my Mom

I took my Mom to Ghent (Belgium) this weekend. We left Saturday morning, arrived at around noon, checked into our funky hotel :) and hit the town...

Ghent is a medieval city and became important through cloth production and trade. It was at one time the second largest city in Europe (Paris being the largest). These days however, it is relatively small (230,000 people) but still has a lot to offer in terms of history and scenery and ... ehm ... beer, wine and food :)

Anyway, we had a very nice time. We stayed in a very nice hotel, run by two (gay) interior designers that have 4 hotel rooms in their funky city mansion. It's all very stylish and still has most of the original details and trimmings. Very nice (check out their website www.hotelverhaegen.be)