Leuven; Sunday, 26 February, 2017

Breakfast was as chaotic as the previous day, but I’d clearly come towards the end of the worst of the chaos as it was starting to quieten down as I was eating.

I packed my bag, checked out and left my luggage in the store room, before heading out into town.

My first stop of the morning was the canal area near to the brewery. This had been built when the town housed a much larger number of breweries and was there to link the town to the rest of the country to get the beer out. Over time the number of breweries has decreased and the bulk of the area is now made up of a strange mix of regeneration on one side of the canal, and the decaying former Artois brewery buildings that they left when they opened their new mega-brewery the other side of the main road.

Near to the canal is the Klein Begijnhof – another former lay community – but on a much smaller scale with only one main street running through it, but if anything, prettier buildings.

I carried on having a wander around the city centre, stopping for a late lunch in a restaurant near the Grote Markt before it was time to head back to the hotel to pick up my stuff.

With all my luggage, I headed back to the station and picked up the fast train back to Brussels and the Eurostar home.