Belgium-1

I would like to talk about our Belgium trip last week. As I mentioned in my previous entries before, I'm studying in the Netherlands as an exchange student. We, my roommates and I, decided to go to Belgium, which is next to the Netherlands, after exams.
First, we compared renting a car and traveling with by train in terms of cost and flexibility. Renting a car was a better choice since we're 5 people and we wanted to go to several cities in Belgium. We departed in Thursday's on Thursday evening. It was my first ride in the Netherlands if I don't count the taxi ride when I first came. The differences that I noticed were that fastening your seat belt was obligatory although even though we're we were in the back and the speed limit in on the highways was 130 km/h. Also highways were in almost everywhere. That made our journey much more comfortable. After 2.5-3 hours of driving, we arrived to at Gent, which was our first stop.
In Gent, we went to a Belgian friend of one of my roommates. We were going to stay spend one night in at his house. He had already made a dinner for us. French fries, which is are very famous with in Belgium, and chicken in dinner. It were was so delicious. Then we went out to see the city. It was really cold outside, then we drank something got a drink in at a cafe-bar and went back to the house. We had just a kitchen to sleep in. 2 mattresses, 2 couches for 5 people. Well, it was a little bit difficult to arrange the places for sleeping. Even one of my friends considered to sleep sleeping on the dinner table. He was English, so the joke wasn't late didn't take long: a real English breakfast :) Then since it would be really weird to sleep there, we decided that 3 people would sleep in on 2 mattresses. As for me, I had borrowed a sleeping bag from my friend and I slept with that on the couch. But it was my first time with in a sleeping bag and it was really so uncomfortable sleeping within in it. And one of my friends was snoring :) So I could only fell asleep very late. But still it was quite okay rather better than paying to stay in a hostel for the night. In the morning, after having breakfast we went to a city tour on a tour of the city. It was a small but nice city. The city center, churches, the marketplace and a castle were among the places we walked around. Then we were in the car for the next city, Brugge. 

To be continued..

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