Sometimes the beauty is not in the grandiose, but in the old and worn

Ivy covered castle walls…cause every European city has an obligatory castle

Castle Gravensteen reflected in the canal

An interesting combination, color and energy

Every European town has it’s obligitory dragon too (and those dragons have cousins)

hidden religion

Something about the tree in the courtyard caught my eye…I liked the contrast against the rooftops

Sometimes not knowing the language of the country you live in can feel like this

Mysterious wysteria window

Most of these phots came from a walk through the Patershol area of Gent during the Patershol Feest. It’s a chic, restaurant part of town now, although in Medievel times it was where the monks lived. Patershol literally means “Monk’s Hole” although a lot of people take that to mean the hole of the ass kind. Cause everyone loves dining in the Pater’s poopshoot right?

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