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Castles, Gruits, and Trolls!: Beertrip Day 7

Continuing the epic journey across Belgium to find great beer:

Castle Gravensteen

Defensible walls!

Our final day in Ghent was a free day on the tour.  We did spend much of it with our 5 tour mates and guide though.  We explored the grounds of the 1180 AD Castle Gravensteen in the morning, checking out the decorative and utilitarian ancient weapons and the disturbing torture devices within its dark halls. 

I need this!  Where is my blacksmith friend Marty when I need him!

After our brief lives reliving the Crusades (OK it was built after that time period) we separated up for some individual wandering.  Sj and I walked the canal and the back streets, also getting a better look at Mad Meg the enormous red cannon.  There has to be a children’s book in that somewhere…

Mad Meg!

We ended up at a street side café listening to a street busker play some sort of weird brass drum contraption.  I enjoyed a complex and dark St. Bernardus 12, paired with a Belgian waffle for lunch.  This light lunch was fo …

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