There's something special about touring, shopping, visiting & living the Antwerp experience with bona fide Antwerpenaren :) It's taken me years to get to know this city & it's people. Antwerp is so multifaceted, has so much to offer, there's so much to tell. I'm going to break it down into bite sized pieces & try to stick with the history & fun of each entry in a limited style. The photo of the elephant, in my last entry, is part of the Elephant Parade. There are 71 elephant statues distributed all over the city of Antwerp until the 1st wk [View Full Entry]

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There was a point at the end of this summer when I realised how very special my last night in Prague was - retiring from the unbearably hot and noisy hostel dormitory to surrender sleep for a second night in a row and dance, for 3 straight hours at that nightclub to my preferred strand of tech house getting the high-energy reception it deserves. This rather inspired me to try and see Silicone Soul live as soon as I can, since I'd been listening to their mixtapes since about last November and hence came my love of tech house. Their gigs [View Full Entry]

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Antwerp is a great place with great food. Known for Architecture and Diamonds. [View Full Entry]

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G'day The first thing I noticed about Belgium, was that it is incredibly flat, the second thing was that were a few strange things about. This started as soon as we landed, after the rather normal straight forward landing, the entire plane burst into applause. But then maybe that was because we were flying Turkish Airlines? Philippe was there to greet us at Brussels airport, and whisked us away in his car to his home, just outside of Antwerp. Philippe had taken the week off work to tour us around Belgium and did a wonderful job of playing tour guide, navigator, [View Full Entry]

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Here we are in the great city of Antwerp. I ADORE architecture ;) [View Full Entry]

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I highly recommend the champagne bar in the Stadzaal :D Appropriately shaped as a GIANT champagne glass. [View Full Entry]

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Our whistle-stop tour of Belgium ended with a brief trip to Antwerp-on realising our train to Amsterdam went through the city, we couldn't resist stopping off there to see the location of Rob Lee's famous hat-trick of headers in NUFC's return to European football in 1994 (well, famous to people in Newcastle, anyway!) ;o) Our train was at 7:30am and it was a double-decker, which I found quite exciting! Why don't we have them in England?! We were slightly delayed, arriving in Antwerp at 8:15am, and so after storing our luggage, it was a rush into the city to see what [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour tout le monde! La deuxième étape de mon voyage se termine demain: je quitterai Anvers pour Bruges. Enfin! Je commence à m'ennuyer à Anvers qui est une jolie ville certes, mais qui n'offre pas assez de choses à faire pour y rester 5 jours (ce qui est mon cas). Premièrement, l'arrivée à Anvers se fait dans une gare magnifique. Le premier endroit que j'ai visité est la cathédrale Notre-Dame. C'est la plus grand cathédrale gothique de tout le Benelux. Elle est très belle et elle renferme plusieurs oeuvres d'art grandioses dont plusieurs tableaux du célèbre peintre flamand Rubens. J' [View Full Entry]

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We made our way from Ghent to Antwerp, Belgium which was a nice short 45 min drive. Found a great campsite on the opposite side of the Schelde river to the City. The weather was really nice and hot so we hopped on the bikes and rode over to the city. We had to go down a large elevator to a tunnel below the river then ride across to the other side. Was really quite cool. We just walked around the city and had a few beers down by the river in the sun. We then went to a really busy [View Full Entry]

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Tijd voor een nieuwe update! Gisteren ben ik naar de Amerikaanse ambassade in Brussel geweest om mijn visum aan te vragen. Ik moest er om half negen zijn, dus errrreug vroeg opgestaan (6u = gemeen!) om rond 7u te trein te nemen naar Brussel Centraal en daar via de metro naar Kunst-Wet te rijden. Natuurlijk was ik te vroeg, rond kwart voor 8 (ik was de eerste ) en voor de veiligheid mag je niet recht voor de ambassade wachten. Er staat daar zo'n heel vriendelijke security-man die ervoor zorgt dat iedereen wat verderop gaat wachten. Dan maar een eindje gaan [View Full Entry]

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