Night 11: OK Here's Belgium...Now wheres the chocolate?!?!
(A night of Turkish kebabs and Hommelbeer).

Our plan was to take a train from Amsterdam to Brussels, then from Brussels to Lille and then on to Paris. We didn't book a direct trin coz with our interrail card we would still need to pay a supplement, whereas taking short distance trains would be free (or prepaid).

We got to Brussels at 21:30, and the people at the information office told us there would be no trains out of Belgium after 21:00. We were stuck in Belgium for the night. We then tried to ask them when the next train would leave for Lille (in the morning) but they were really rude and just sent us away, closing the info office for the night.

We decided (since we could go on any internal train for free) to head over to Ghent (we're not sure why.

In Ghent we were guna sleep in the station but at 00:00 the station was guna close for a few hours so they kicked us out. We roamed the streets of Ghent until a nice guy at a 24hr grocery store pointed us to the bars.

We spent a couple of hours in one bar drinking Hommelbeer, then went to a Turkish kebab place*.
Heading back to the trainstation at 03:30 where we slept til morning. Then we caught the train to Lille.


*we have concluded that, Turkish kebab places have become the most international establishments in the world, every place we went to had loads of these. In the one street we saw in Ghent there were about 4, right near each other, all with authentic Turks.