The Post

Designed by architect Louis Cloquet in 1898, the Neo-Gothic building sits at the city's center. Its intricate exterior is studded with statues and escutcheons and includes a 54-metre clock tower. The building ceased to be a post office in 2001, and now hosts a shopping center and a hotel. Graslei 16. "A modern-Gothic Post Office, by Cloquet, was erected in 1899 et seq., between the Marché-aux-Grains and the Lys."--Baedeker 1910. IMG_9926p1

Ghent

April 25th 2023
Dawn found Monarch Empress waiting to transit the Nieuwe Sluis Terneuzen and then follow the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal twenty miles (32 km) down to the city. Arrival in Gent was through its Dampoort. The long canal terminating at Achterdok was again lined with all manner of industrial wharves: coal, sand, and gravel; scrap metal; pipes and petrochemicals. Good arriving by ocean vessels are transloa ... read more

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Belgium became independent from the Netherlands in 1830 and was occupied by Germany during World Wars I and II. It has prospered in the past half century as a modern, technologically advanced European state and member of NATO and the EU. Tensions bet... ... read more

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