Blogs from Antwerp, Antwerp Province, Belgium, Europe - page 11

Morning: Had a good sleep and woke up only at around 9:30am. Everybody woke up around that time and we got ready slowly. Yuri offered to make some pancakes for us and we hungrily agreed. Then he introduced us on how Belgians eat their pancakes w palm sugar, chocolate chip-like toppings and a kind of sugar that taste really nice which is called Cassinade Graeffe. He said it's prob only sold in Belgium so we decided to buy it when we visit the supermarket later. After 3 pancakes later, we started getting ready to go out and it's about 1pm already. Afternoon: Since the day was so good and super sunny, Yuri decided not to waste it by staying at home to do his work and head out w his laptop to the city's cafe to ... read more

Hey all '(un)fortunately' we arrived this morning in Amsterdam. Fortunately we landed; unfortunately we had to land after our 3 weeks journey because somewhere our number of vacations days is not an exact max of our working days … We immediately recognized we landed in Amsterdam around 05u23 this morning because the Dutch still have difficulties with ‘modern’ techniques since they couldn’t open the door to the luggage compartment of the plane automatically. They had to open the door ‘by hand’ which caused a delay of an hour and a half. Finally we collected our luggage and boarded onto the Thalys with final destination my beloved city ‘Antwerp’. We anticipated we won’t have the change to calculate how long it would take to travel from Amsterdam to Antwerp Central stations because we checked in on the ... read more

After some hours on the belgian and dutch highways, we arrived to Amsterdam, a charming city even under the rain...! a walk in the red light district, a long walk under the rain, a tasty kebab (+ a coca light, mmm!), and the cigaret of guests in Netherlands, we are writing the 1st article of a long serie, across Europe, to begin and our next trip in America, Asia, Africa and why not Australia. Talking about Australia, 2 of our roommates for tonight in the Flying Pig youth hostel are Australian (the others are israelian) but they didn't invite us to visit them...shit! Ok, it's time to say byebye, iki, à plus, see u later, ciao ir aufwiedersehen peach and sleepy, almost sleeping, very sleepy sky! ... read more

So, today, spent the whole day in Antwerp! Started out late again....(so love to sleep-in!!!^-^) So started off with the Diamond museum! I didn't know Belgium was famous for cutting diamonds and being the trade centre for diamonds in Europe! It was interesting to know about the history and how diamonds are formed and so on... they had this audio guide with..TOO much info!!! holy...felt like going on 2 lectures of diamond history! haaaaa.... They do have some pretty shiny jewels on display..too bad I am not too into diamonds, yet. haaaa! Then, walked into the city. Antwerp is the fashion capital and its TRUE!!! OMG... so many nice stuff!!! especially, recently I got into looking at leather shoes for some reason.......but they are so expensive!!!! " Anyways, things are way too expensive here, and I ... read more

Day 2 of the conference in Antwerp. The morning started with a delightfully filling breakfast buffet - today they had pancakes that were to die for - light, and laced with maple-syrup-like flavouring but without the stickiness, all topped off with a pile of cream! The day then proceeded with an 'exciting' morning at the conference - lots of work, not much play. For lunch, a few colleagues decided to head out to the waterfront to eat at a well known seafood establishment. Between the various colleagues, we managed to get a smattering of lobster, crab, fish and mussels - poor corporate expense cards were sighing from the bill. Now I'm not much of a seafood person, but I have to say that this seafood was actually rather tasty. I even found the mussels tasty enough ... read more