Gent

We followed up yesterday's long trip to Ypres and the Flanders WWI battlefields with a relatively short trip to Gent. I was a two hour train trip to Ypres, a stop at the In Flanders Fields museum, lunch, a four hour battlefield tour and a two hour trip home. The museum and tour were great. We have all been getting up to speed on WWI in many ways and the tour helped bring home the horrific experience that was WWI. We even saw a recently discovered artillery shell a farmer place on the side of the road. It's estimated that over 10 million unexploded shells are still in the ground in Belgium and France.

We took a short 25 minute train ride up to Gent today and saw the Adoration of the Lamb painting by Von Eyck, climbed the bell tower and toured Castle Gravensteen. Back in Brugge drinking wine while the boys are at the top of the attached medieval tower making chicken noises for the people on the street below.