Antwerp & Amsterdam

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Tonight is our last in Antwerp which is large and very cool city in the north east of Belgium. We’ve had a good time here - running in the Strada Park in the early morn, walking through the cobbled streets and squares, looking in the shops (mainly window shopping as many do not open early in the week or early in the day), gazing out at Scheldt River (see view back to the town from the river, pic 1) and eating of course! We had a particularly great meal at the Grand Cafe Horta on Monday night - mussels for me, salmon penne for A, washed down with a lovely Chablis.

Today we took the train to Amsterdam to see a little of the Netherlands and to visit the Van Gogh Museum. Looking out from the train the landscape was green, wet and flat. Amsterdam though was buzzing - even in the rain. The Van Gogh paintings were beautiful and so too was wandering the canal-side streets (see pic 2).

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