If you like beer, beautiful architecture and chocolate, then you need to take a trip to Belgium! Check out all of my recommendations for when you visit! Stay tuned as I am actively updating this blog post.
What To Eat and Drink
There is so much delicious food in Belgium but a highlight was definitely the Belgian waffle! Check out all of my recommendations here! I can’t believe I did it! I ate a belgian waffle in Belgium! I honestly didn’t think it would be THAT different from a regular waffle in the US but it was so good!
What To See/Do
FLORIS BAR
Floris Bar aka ‘the bar where they serve absinthe’ was definitely one for the books. They have a huge selection of beer and great music!
CHRISTMAS MARKET
One of my favorite reasons about being in Europe during the winter is shown in this picture. Christmas markets are HUGE in Europe! Literally they were everywhere, it was awesome. Little tents/cabins are popped up and hot wine, Belgian waffles, pastries, Christmas items and a ton of other things are sold. So much fun to walk through while in Ghent, and basically every city in Europe. Thank you Mack for telling me about these and Maggie and David for taking me! I miss Belgium already! See Christmas market article here.
VISIT A CASTLE IN BELGIUM
While in the beautiful city of Ghent in Belgium, we visited a real life castle (Gravensteen)! It was so AWESOME, the history was unbelievable and I totally felt like I was in a Game of Thrones episode. See more photos here.
SEE THE ATOMIUM
The Atomium in Belgium was constructed for Expo 58, the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair. It’s in the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. One of my teammates called me a nerd for coming to see it but whatever Cody, don’t be mean!! Haha it was super cool to see in person and they had delicious Belgian waffles outside of it! Super cool!
There was also this super cute and cool ‘be welcome’ sign there.
VISIT BRUSSELS
VISIT BRUGES
We visited #Bruges another beauiful city in #Belgium.
St. Salvatore’s Cathedral in Bruges is the main church of the city and it is magnificent. The architecture style is Gothic and it was built in the 10th century! I will always associate hot wine with this cathedral because I was sipping hot wine when I first saw it. The cathedral is dedicated to the Verrezen Zaligmaker and Saint-Donatius of Reims.
VISIT GHENT
I had the best time in Belgium and cannot wait to return. I hope this post inspires you visit.
Thank you all for reading, and stay enthusiastic!
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-Maira