When in Gent go out! There are so many good places to go to eat and drink. Fairly close to our mooring Portus Ganda there is a very eclectic restaurant called Au Boeuf Qui Rit.Very small with unusual interiors, actually unusual everything. As Martyn and Charlie were coming out for a long weekend we normally try to surprise them with something off the radar. Au Boeuf Qui Rit ticked the box. We had not been before but we did the research and talked to people. It's very, very small perhaps a dozen covers and all run, cooked, served and sommeliered by one woman. I'm sure sommeliered is not a real word. Not only was she an amazing tour de force the cooking was done in front of you on a wood fired grill. How stressful must be her service?
The entrance.
The food was excellent. OK it was not Michelin 3 star, but we all had great food perfectly cooked. There is certainly a interior decoration bias towards human figures/mannequins, together with a few animals.
Martyn communing with a fellow table guest.
Everywhere you looked is feast for the eyes. What a proprietor, owning, designing, decorating, sourcing the food/wine, cooking and serving all on her own! Wow.
Dancing cows! Why not.
On from the meal a wander around Gent at night. Excellent old pubs, beautifully floodlight buildings and a bit of graffiti. Graffiti in Gent in designated places is not frowned upon. As long as the artist does not overlay better quality work. Who decides?
The crew on the way to a bar.
Earlier that day Margaret received an email she has been waiting for for quite a while. Margaret has claimed her Irish nationality and now has her Irish passport. She has had a friend checking our mail back in Bath. The Irish embassy send the passport by registered post. If it is not signed for and goes back to the sorting office it will be returned to the Irish embassy after a couple of weeks. If that happens who knows if you'll ever get it again. This did not happen and all good. I'm now married to a permanent European!
A email photograph of the passport, finally arrived!!! The face says it all.
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