A nice spot in Belgium...

Hey guys,

Recently, I´ve visited Belgium and discovered three very cute places. If you consider yourself to be goth or a fan of underground culture, I´m sure you´d be fond of it as well.
No, in fact, I believe you´d even like these places if you consider yourself to be a regular mainstream dude.
These three places are located in the Jan Breydelstraat and I highly recommend you going there!
I regret having visitted Gent for only one day so much (and on top of that it was a Sunday).
There was one shop I had been looking for and after a while I had found it.
It´s called "The fallen Angels", which is


a antique (?) shop with a very cute exterior. This much I can tell you. But since it was a Sunday, I didn´t get the chance to visit the shop. It was full of old toys and dolls and the dainty pale pink and ochre design of the shop was really an eyecatcher!



Jah Breydelstraat 29, Gent.

This is apparently the guardian angel the shop was named after

 

 

I also found this to be sort of amusing :p...



 

There also were two restaurants on the other side of the street I found really cool.
These two restaurants coexist side by side, even though the one called "Club Reserva" is waaay cheaper than the neighbouring restaurant "House Eliott".

 

There seem to be lives on every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday, so that´s probably why they have all those awesome instruments hanging and standing around.

In fact, they even call their restaurant a "music venue and bistro", and I know I regret not having been there on that Sunday evening <_<.

 

This is how it looks inside:

(Picture not taken by me)

From there you have a perfect view on the Gent´s river Leie.

 

I also enjoyed the stylish atmosphere in the entrance area:



 

I couldn´t believe me and my friend found such delicious and cheap food in Belgium!
I recommend you going there not only because of the furnishing, but also because of the food. It can be quite hard to find healthy, delicious and cheap food in Belgium, but in this restaurant I had finally found what I was looking for so long in Belgium.

The vegetable pie (for 7 Euros) of my friend and my vegetable soup (for 4 Euros) with bread and butter was really delicious!



 

 

My third recommendation is a restaurant called "The House Eliott"

The House Eliott

 

God, looking at the pics on Google, the atmosphere in there must be so gorgeous...

Just look at this!:

 

 

The only thing that restrained me from consuming something at this restaurant were the prices.

There was no proper meal under 17 Euros!

I ended up eating at Club Reserva, which wasn´t a bad choice, either.

But the next time I go to Gent, I´ll visit The House Eliott and the cute shop for sure, though!
(I won´t die in peace if I don´t go to this restaurant!)

 

 

So...I guess that was it for today.

I hope you liked my post :)

 

 

Kurenai

 



Asmalia- The new gothic shop in Vienna!

Hey guys,


2 days ago, on May 8th, a new gothic shop opened in the seventh district of Vienna.
These are really big news, since many gothic shops in Vienna had to close, and up till now there was only one bigger gothic shop. Okay, there are some fetish and piercing shops with cool stuff, but this is the second shop which literally calls itself "Gothic Shop".
The first three days they had all their products reduced by 10%, so today was my last chance!
I had to check it out and I was glad I did.
It only take about 7 minutes from the subway station Neubaugasse and Zieglergasse (both U3)
I decided to go to Neubaugasse by subway, then I turned right to Neubaugasse, turned left to Lindengasse and went through a nameless passage (there is a sign above the passge that said Ahorngasse). The first street on the right side of Ahorngasse is Hermangasse. After a few meters I saw the shop:

Asmalia

 

It´s definitely not as noticeable as the Nexus store, which is also a bit bigger, but in fact, I liked how the little shop looked like inside. There were two ladies and one man standing in there. They were really friendly, even though I could notice they were still quite nervous, which is only natural in this situation, I think.

Anyway, the prices weren´t too high, but the stuff they had wasn´t exactly cheap, either.

Here is a little excerpt:

 

I totally liked the accessoires, which weren´t all that expensive. I had decided to buy something in the shop if I liked it, and in the end I bought a collar made of lace which had a black rose in the middle.
I have a number of collars, but none of them is as steampunk as this one.
The reduced price was 9.80 Euros, which is fine, in my opinion (It´s that thing on the upper right corner if you look at the picture with the purple background).

Steampunk necklace

 

After all, I not only got a beautiful, reduced collar, but also supported a new gothic shop.

It´s an important contribution to the gothic scene in Vienna, which seems to reflourish. Lately I see flamboyant people walking through the city way more often than for example three years ago and I´m really glad about it!

Edit: This is Asmalia´s official flyer!

 

 

If you have spare time after sight seeing in Vienna, please go to the shop. ;)

It´s worth a visit!

 

 

Kurenai