Archive > The Amazing Race 19 Spoilers and Speculation

EP 10 East Coast SHOW updates and commentary **please read the rules**

<< < (13/13)

gator27:

--- Quote from: Plaidmoon on November 28, 2011, 12:25:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on November 28, 2011, 07:54:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: jiajia12 on November 27, 2011, 08:17:48 PM ---Tommy and Andy catches up to.Marcus/Amani
And they are in Gent already wow

--- End quote ---

This is truly surprising since Gent appears on the map of Belgium to be about 55 miles away, including taking the superhighway in a semicircle south around Antwerp. It should have taken longer based on my guess of the lead Ernie/Cindy and Jeremy/Sandy had on the other teams arrival to Lommel.

--- End quote ---


Perhaps it's just me (I've never been to Belgium), but I've always seen it spelled Ghent, not Gent. I would have been a bit confused to see Gent and been looking for a small town rather than a large city.

--- End quote ---
It is spelled Ghent on Google maps.  Perhaps Ghent is the American version of Gent.

apskip:

--- Quote from: Plaidmoon on November 28, 2011, 12:25:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: apskip on November 28, 2011, 07:54:43 AM ---
--- Quote from: jiajia12 on November 27, 2011, 08:17:48 PM ---Tommy and Andy catches up to.Marcus/Amani
And they are in Gent already wow

--- End quote ---

This is truly surprising since Gent appears on the map of Belgium to be about 55 miles away, including taking the superhighway in a semicircle south around Antwerp. It should have taken longer based on my guess of the lead Ernie/Cindy and Jeremy/Sandy had on the other teams arrival to Lommel.

--- End quote ---




Perhaps it's just me (I've never been to Belgium), but I've always seen it spelled Ghent, not Gent. I would have been a bit confused to see Gent and been looking for a small town rather than a large city.

--- End quote ---
plaidmoon,

I'm with you, as the English name of that city has always been Ghent and that's the way I know it. However, just like the cities in India have changed names in recent years, so have some in Belgium. Here is a line on the Internet from Tourism Belgique:

Gent/Gand: un week-end géant à Gand - Tourisme Belgique

Note that Gand and Gent are Flemish names for Ghent. Gent is the capital of the East Flanders province and squarely in the Flemish part of Belgium.

LoveRocked:
NVM

Cocoa:
I seriously loved this episode, maybe the best in this season?

I loved how the camera just glides perfectly. :tup:
I loved how Phil and the greeter merges, and they faced the direction during Bill & Cathi's exit.

Jobby:
The pit-stop location is darn cool. Just wished that there was more daylight when Andy and Tommy checked-in.. then we could have had the bright day and the night version of the scenery. :tup:

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page

Go to full version