These normally charge about F500 for a dormitory bed and are often just as comfortable. You'll also find some universities offering student rooms for rent during the summer vacation, Ghent being a good example. Rooms are frugal and rates are reasonable - reckon on about F500 per person per night. Rates for HI members are F350-750 per person, with the Luxembourg City hostel at the top end of the price range. Sheets can also be rented for an extra F125.
Every large town has at least a couple of chocolate shops.
The southern part of the country holds the forested hills and river valleys of the Ardennes, popular with canoeists and hikers alike. If you're heading for Antwerp , you must visit the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Cathedral and admire the three Rubens paintings hanging inside, as well as the fine sixteenth-century interior. Of the hundreds of exquisite medieval paintings on view in Belgium, perhaps the most wonderful is the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb , a stunning and extraordinarily intricate painting displayed in St Baafskathedraal in Ghent . Catch up on Herg 's Adventures of Tintin in Brussels at the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessin e , which is devoted to the fascinating history of the country's cartoons and comic strips. Tournai's antique town centre, with its narrow lanes and cobbled alleys, fans out from an imposing Romanesque Cathedral , decorated with extraordinary carvings of the Virtues and the Vices.