Gent has a stunning train station – Gent Sint-Pieters.  The art deserves long looks.

Typically and naturally, I travel to the station to go somewhere.  Not necessarily in a rush but in transit.  And being on the move, I miss a lot.

There is much to linger over.  All I need to do is look up.  Such as the city of Oostende on the English Channel:

Or the paintings of Antwerp and Brabant:

I’ve been to Antwerp but I don’t know what Brabant is.  All in good time I will discover my new country.

Have I gone to Gent Sint-Pieters to sit and behold?  No.  I’ve simply written about it here and now and taken some images off the Internet.  That feels like cheating.

So … tomorrow I’ll take the tram to the train station and give you the real deal.  An immersion rather than dancing around the edges.

I might even venture into the American icon Starbucks.  A friend told me there’s something spectacular inside.

See you then