Für Bösi, SSO und meine MitB: Ein Tag in Antwerpen!

I haven't realised it, but "the girls I left behind" (=B-team in Tirol) are very interested in this blog. And although my intention was to write exclusively in Greek, I ´ll write in English every time I am sharing photoes with you.

Yesterday was a bank holiday in Belgium. The Belgians celebrated the "Christi Himmelfahrt", I celebrated one day away from office! Plan A was to go to the Seaside with S. (=die Müncherin). However it is good to have a Plan B in this country... Going to the seaside was out of question, since contrary to what I had seen in yahoo weather the previous day, it was raining and raining and raining (and unfortunately it was not raining men, allelouhia...) So we thought of visiting Antwerpen instead.

It took us only 25 minutes to drive there and although Jane(=GPS) was for unknown reason on strike, we didn´t have problems to find the City Center. Actually we were not very sure that we were at the Center but the building in the following picture looked like a City-Center-Building so we decided to try our luck and start wandering.

Antwerpen is full of shops and our feeling is that they are cheaper than the shops in Brussels. We have to visit it once more of course, so that I am able to give you a cost estimate.


Well...this photo is a bit out of topic. I just included it since you can see everywhere houses made of those red bricks. I know that a lot of people find them nice...I am still undecided...

Don´t ask what is that. I bet it is some kind of cultural center but I am not sure. At the other side of the street you could find all the Via-Napoleone-kind of shops.

And then we got lost...But we enjoyed it! The park is rather small. I don´t know what its name is, but it was a calm corner in the heart of the city.

That was interesting! Pay attention of the ghosts on the roof. I am not sure what they symbolize. There were a group of tourists exactly next to us, but I find it very embarassing to stand next to them, so as to find out more...I will "google" it. I am sure there is an interesting consept behind it.

This garden is next to the museum/house of a very famous painter. His name starts with R, but don´t ask for more(early onset of Alzheimer´s disease+I am not that much into Art). S was very disappointed it was closed due to the holiday and she seems vey determined to come back and visit it. So I guess that this R-painter is an important one (or that S wants to visit the market of Antwrpen and she doesn´t want to tell it directly).

As a prominent member of the B-team, I find food extremely important. I only had a snack: Quiches mit Lachs und Broccoli! Ich will unbedingt die Rezepte finden! Leckerrrrrrr....Also Mahlzeit :oP