It was quite interesting, and in particular it had quite a good audio tour. Even older than most of the English castles, it described the history and use of the castle and what it would have been like in those times. Once we were finished doing that, we wandered the city for a bit, looking for a place where I could buy a bottle of the aforementioned waffle flavoured vodka. We must have walked the city about 5 times, and looked in every shop that could have had it that was open (which wasn't so many, apparently lost of shops in Ghent are closed on Sundays) but we couldn't find it anywhere! Hands down that was the biggest disappointment of the weekend.
We did get some more bits from stalls and shops - mostly presents for my work colleagues this time, and we stopped at a burger place called Manhattn for lunch. It was very nice! We then wandered a bit more, but by then I was tired and cold and grumpy, so we decided to head back early.
We only took a short detour off the main road back to Calais this time, arriving a full 2 hours before our train. However, we were given the option to get an earlier train which we took, then we headed into the Charles Dickens terminal to grab some dinner (pizza which tasted like the old school pizza singles - and that's a good thing) and some duty free Belgian beer before heading back on the train.
Being on the slightly earlier train did mean, of course, that we got into Folkestone a little earlier, and we were home in the flat with the kitties by not long after 9pm! This meant we still got a decent nights sleep before having to head to work on Monday morning.
This had been an interesting experience, taking a weekend holiday mid school term. I think it's a good idea - but only sometimes, otherwise it's definitely burning the candle at both ends!
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