Well we’ve had a good start to our big adventure, we left our local station in Yorkshire at 07.20 and arrived in Ghent in Belgium around 6pm. We travelled 1st class which is a big treat for us. Yesterday we wandered round Ghent, today we had a day trip to Bruges. Both a beautiful historic cities based around rivers and canals. We loved looking at the architecture, so different from the UK.

We’ve also enjoyed trying the local cuisine, yesterday we had a delicious Belgian Stew, today we had Bruges waffles !!

We also stumbled across a lovely embroidery shop, though the shopkeeper wasn’t the most welcoming – you had to put on pvc gloves to touch anything, even like a kit in a plastic sleeve, she said it was due to chocolate and waffles. We both saw little kits we liked and the company has their main shop in Paris, our last stop!

Tomorrow we travel to Maastricht…and there just happens to be a fabric market on 😄