Mechelen

We decided to base ourselves for a couple of nights in the Belgium city of Mechelen, for no much better reason than neither of us had been before. It was a good choice.

I had happy start in that I was upgraded to a larger room!

We arrived late afternoon and basically decided to spend 15 minutes settling into room and then hit the town. Which is what we did. And the old town was very attractive

The main square is spacious by any standards

Obviously we had to look around the cathedral

Then a wine bar to recover, overlooking the canal. I like a view

And then off for dinner. There didn't appear to be many fine dining options but we settled on somewhere that was a bit of a walk from the old town. Only on arrival did we discover that it was inside this fine building, and the building was now a hotel. General policy is to resist hotel restaurants as they tend to be overpriced, but in the end we enjoyed our meal, and the dining room was very nice, spacious and relaxing.