We come to it at last, my friends! My first out-of-France trip of the semester!
The first weekend in October (I know, I know, I'm a full month behind on posting. I'm working on it!) I went with my art history class on an overnight trip to Belgium. We visited three cities: Brussels, Ghent, and Bruges. I'm splitting this trip up so that each city gets its own post so that I can show you all as many pictures as possible, because I have many, MANY pictures of beautiful art and adorable canals and so forth.
Saturday was a whirlwind. Our train left Paris at 8:15am and took us to Brussels (it's about a two-hour ride). We spent MAYBE a little over two hours in the city itself, going to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts to see a selection of 14th/15th century Flemish art, grabbing a sandwich, and then getting on the train for the 35-minute ride to Ghent.
It rained the whole time we were in Brussels, which was a shame (as is the fact that we spent so little time there). Even so, my brief impressions of the city were lovely; I would have liked to have spent more time there to really explore it.
The main portion of the museum centers on this big atrium. We went upstairs to the main galleries all along the sides.
The view from upstairs.
Why the name of the museum over the main entrance is in English and...I want to say Korean (?), I have NO idea...
What I assume is some kind of government building in the main square we passed walking to and from the train station.
More of the main square.
The view out over town.
A very cool, very old-looking building we passed. The stepped gables in the middle at the top are quintessentially Flemish (random factoids like this are part of the benefit of being led around by a professor of art history!).
Windmills and rainy countryside on the way to Ghent.
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