As soon as we finished breakfast this morning, we started packing all our stuff and throwing away uneaten food. We left Kerkdriel and headed to Rotterdam, where Adele caught a train to Schiphol Airport to fly back to NYC. Then David and I drove to Breda to find our rental home for tonight to drop our stuff, and then we headed to Antwerp for the afternoon.
Driving into Antwerp we hit the most horrendous traffic. It was taking forever to go the last few blocks to our destination. Finally, we found a parking garage, left the car, and walked.
Our first stop was the Central Train Station. I had read it was magnificent, and it didn't disappoint.
Then we walked quite a bit towards the Grote Markt, a large central square in Antwerp. On the way we passed a cat cafe called "Katmosfeer", where we were going to stop, but they didn't sell food, just coffee, and we were starving!
We continued on until we found a place for lunch. I had a club sandwich and David had tomato soup and calimari.
The Grote Markt was filled with beautiful buildings and a large fountain in the middle. We wandered around looking into some stores and got a few souvenirs.
Grote Markt and next four pics
We walked a little further to see the giant ferris wheel they had and came upon Het Steen, an old fortress. This was also on my list of places to visit in Antwerp, so we went!
Het Steen is now an interactive museum, and tells the history of Antwerp and of Het Steen itself.
Het Steen
This wooden piece has doors to open to see different pictures or objects about Antwerp
The people you see here are all holograms!
Part of a movie about Antwerp
View from the top
A ferry
Here are a few pictures of Antwerp we took as we were walking back to the parking garage.
We got back to the garage and I went to pay in the machine while David got the car. We left and had driven about two miles, when David asked me to look up something on my phone. It was then that I realized that I had left my cell phone on top of the machine where I paid. David immediately started heading back to the garage, but there was so much traffic, it was taking forever and I was in full panic mode! Finally, when we were almost a half a mile away, and stopped in traffic, I got out of the car and ran the rest of the way. Once I got to the right floor of the garage, I had trouble finding the machine. Thankfully, my phone was still there! It then took me several minutes to figure out where David and the car had gone, and did I mention, it was raining?
We got back to our beautiful rental, had a much needed drink, and we threw in some laundry. Here are pics of the rental house in Breda.
We thought we had made a reservation at a Spanish restaurant in Breda, but it turns out we hadn't. Luckily they were able to give us a table in this jam packed restaurant! They specialize in tapas and we shared four dishes and a liter of Sangria. Everything was just delicious!
Anchovies - which I have never before tasted, but they were delicious!! Tasted like herring.
Already half eaten, I think it was duck with almonds. Delish!
Tomato salad with burrata. David said it was the best thing he's eaten on this whole trip!
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