#lovendegem

Genieten in Stijl. Restaurant - Bed & Breakfast - Ontbijt - Lunch - Tuinterras - Wijnkaart

When I was visiting Ghent, I got lost when I took the last bus of the night in the wrong direction. Ended up in a different fare zone, and I didn't know what to do. I tried walking the way the bus came, and was walking for half an hour, looking for any shops that might be open. After the 3rd bus stop, I saw this restaurant, knocked on the door, and asked for a telephone number for the taxi. 

It was 10.45pm and they were closed, but they helped me google the taxi number, and called a taxi for me, telling the company where I was heading. They let me, a sweaty, out-of-breath backpacker, sit down in their dining room while waiting for the cab to arrive, and gave me a glass of water, and refused payment. I only had my card, and didn't have much euros left, and couldn't really pay them in cash. In the end the taxi arrived, I could pay for the taxi with my card, everything was alright. But I would have ended up lost, at 11pm at night in belgium, (I was so far out I wasn't even in ghent anymore) without the help of these people. (I could have called nicolas but I was much too arrogant; he specifically told me where the tram stop was, but I stubbornly followed the directions from googlemaps and thought that the bus stop I was at was the correct one.)