Kicking it in Antwerp.. tremendous city.

First night was in this prison (well it was actually a hostel) but they kicked you at from 10am to 3pm, served breakfast from 7:30am to 9:00am, you had to press a button in the shower to turn the water on ... and it was cold... there was no one staying there (except this 55yr old dude who must have been kicked out by his wife for snoring) and it was in the middle of no-where, next to a motor way and you had to catch a bus/tram from the city to get there..

k enough bitchn'.

Paid for two nights but after the first night I was outta there and looking for better digs. Found it.

The best hostel I have ever stayed in. Its above a bar in the old city. Instantly met a top aussie bloke dave and we've been kickin' it ever since. Raff (beared and on the left), the owner of the bar cooks food for us and gives us free beers and shots.. its the bollocks as Shahin would say. Mike, crazy crotch gripping dude from the Hague was a freaking classic .. all night hes shouting in the streets... 'Yar Yar... F*** her in the ass!' 'In the ass!' I dont think anyone knew why!@#

Also, become locals at one of the Irish pubs here. They've got a huge screen and there's been some top football on recently:
Man U v Norwich
Real Madrid v Barcelona (I think the best gave I have ever seen in my life)
Chelsea v Bayern
and tonight its Liverpool v Juventis (Come on youuuu Reds!!)

Apart from that, met Belgian girl Jill who offerred me free accomodation in her flat.. top chick.

Ohh yeah .. so Antwerp right... Ant or so meant 'hand' many hundreds of years ago.. and twerpin kinda meant throwing... i.e Hand Throwing. Really. Back in the day they used to chop off your hand and throw them if you didnt pay your taxes or if you came here illegally something like that..

They even have this awesome statue of a dude throwing a hand.

K, about 400 beers left to try..