Hello, fairytale land.
Antwerp.
The most amazing and stylish town in history of mankind! Sitting in a sea of plastic tableish thing, with computers mushed in between. An internet cafe in Antwerp. Finding here was even more funny, we were about to walk out of the little cafe where I had the most yummy Mushroom Soup (and for 3 euro only!) ever. I opened the door and made like a “oh” shout, because we forgot to ask the waitress where we can find an internet cafe, and the every single table in the cafe turned their head towards us and smiled. One woman said, just ask ahead. So I asked the entire cafe, and everybody helped in answering. Well, what a friendly bunch.
Every little corner of this city is embedded in style, in Brussels we found a little gem here and there. But here, it’s really everywhere. All the restaurants are perfect, tons of designer shops, little cute shops, and everything’s made with care and love. The MoMu fashion musem was awesome!!! Like a dream, so artistic, yet so real. The street we live on in the middle of old town, is covered in little christmas trees with lots of colorful lights. Our hotel is taken out of a romance story. I feel like a little kid again finding her way through the magical world of Grimm’s, filled with candies, mushroom lights and magical churches.
Hello, fairytale land.
Tags: Brussles/Antwerp/Amsterdam
Janie
December 10th, 2005 at 2:14 am
had no idea antwerp was such a cool town! this is great, you review the places and then the rest of us will have an easier time deciding where to go!
September 24th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
[…] Antwerp is the flemish name for the city in northern Belgium, and it has the french name of Anvers. The pun of “un verre en Anvers” was considered very funny during the trip, I believe Kenneth made it up. Antwerp used to be very famous for diamond making, but that has died down a bit now. These days the fashion university has made the centre town very fashionable, filled with designers and pretty things. I like the name Antwerp more, it sounds more like the city itself. First time I visited Antwerp was with Misato the winter of 2005. I really fell in love with the old town then, in the winter, with all the christmas trees and magical feeling. Actually here is my blog entry for that first visit to fairytale land (for memory’s sake). […]