plan B

On my walk through Antwerp I came across a whole bunch of cafes. I finally sat down at Plan B. I had a great lunch, although I first thought it was quite expensive, but it was a great mozzarella tomato sandwich. I arrived just before 12, but soon there were a lot of people from the offices nearby that came there for lunch. Everyone seems to drink wine with their lunch. I miss this in Netherlands.

zoo Antwerpen

I haven't seen any animal, but I only stayed int he darwin hall just near the entrance of the Antwerpen Zoo. A big skeleton of a dinosuar made me wonder if they really did exist, has that really taken place?

pizzeria

I went to dinner with Snder the dday before the final meeting of CitizenMedia in Antwerp. We had to go through the sex-street with SEX and GIRLS screamed to us to come to a reasonable good restaurant where I had instead of a pizza a pasta arabiata, my favourite one. Nice conversation with Sander about work, ambition and plans.

golden tulip centre

A huge tower just behind the train station of Antwerp Central. The rooms reminded me of the rooms in Houten, same kind of style and luxury mark. A lot of African and Chinese people here, probably because it is close to the diamant area of Antwerp; when walking there the next day it was as if I was somewhere else; Also a lot of Amish people and Indian people walking around.

kassa4

Cafe where we also went when Fleur and I were in Antwerp the day before we went to India. You can still smoke in cafes! It was nice to catch up with Timothy again in this kind of art-cafe.

karbonkel

The guy that served us definitely had too much to do for just him. Hence, now I realize how much a waiter actually determines about a place. The terrace was however lovely in the sunny side of the Antwerp Groenmarkt. This is where we had lunch, nice ciabattas.

marnix bed & breakfast

From the website this bed & breakfast looked really idyllic and personal. Then you always have to see what you get when getting there. And luckily the expectations were met. We had a nice japanese decorated room, that was maintained with care. A good bed and breakfast was also OK in the livingroom downstairs. On sunday the street had a streetparty so we had to park the cars somewhere else.
Because I was living in Dusseldorf instead of Groningen, we had to travel separate form each other to Antwerp, that was a bit of a shame, but in the end it was a really nice and relaxing weekend!

mata mata pili pili

On our first night in Antwerp we had to find a nice restaurant in the dark. This is quite hard....! but the day after it appeared we were quite close to a whole lot of them. However we ended up in this African restaurant at the hoofdstraat (near sweet and seksie). It was really nice food!! Especially the spicy pumpkin soup as a starter I can recommend!

zuiderterras

Just walk along the Schelde in Antwerp and you will find this restaurant/cafe on an elevated platform. We had a coffee here, before going into the city centre and do some shopping. Nice view, but weird staff, and coffee wasn't the best. It looked like they had nice breakfasts.