Antwerp Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Monday saw the numbers dwindling down to four, three, two, and finally just Sylvie.  On Monday morning I was awake before 7. I always have this phobia of waking up late on the day I have to be at the airport, but as usual, I ended up waking long before I was supposed to. But it gave me time to pack up, shower, and relax. Pieter was up not long after me because he also had to be somewhere, dressed up in his kilt (picture supplied). Ashish was up next, just before Pieter left us. And the…

Finally I went to sleep to the main room, between Ashish and Sylvie. Sylvie don't let me sleep so much, he he he, I try to make a movie (2º TB X-Movie) but Kornifalig didn't leave me :( Sylvie you're a lucky girl! :D Maths lesson: Alcohol + No sleep =.............................HEADACHE! Finally I wake up at 11? Shower, change my clothes and getting better, ready for a cafe and something for lunch. Groenplats Meeting point again at Groenplats, people are having a drink... "OMG, Devi…

Finally Sylvie suggested to have a meetup in her beautifull city Antwerp. For me this came as a surprise! I remember her words quite clearly after the Amsterdam meetup, 'I will never going to organise such a meetup at my place'. After different attempts to convince her otherwise I gave up. She didn't want to organise a meetup so I respected that. Just to find out weeks later she is going to organise one! Thumbs Up for you Sylvie, you proved you can do this very well and all TravBuddy's atte…

Yesterday we had the Meetup in Antwerp. 28 degrees, shops all over the place, great people, tasty wine so we had a great time. :D After a little hour by car we arrived the sunny city of Antwerp. It's only 11.00 and already 24 degrees which is very uncommon for this area in this period. But who cares? We started the day by taking a waffle as breakfast and walking through the city to wake up as the last night was a short one.  We first met Wendy and Anna and went with them …

The last morning in the hostel and moments in Antwerp! We spent the last night in the hostel and we woke up urlie again.... Joost was gone already but left a sweet note for us! During that breakfast we talked with a few from Brazil....It was realy interessthing, because during 'Queensday' TB members had a plan to organize a meet-up in februari during the Rio Janero Carnafal... I,m thinking of it, but stil not sure because my Africatrip this november! I realy love to go th…

So last night I was contemplating whether I should set an alarm to wake us up before check out or not. I decided against it and figured we wouldn’t sleep that long. Well no need for an alarm when your hotel is right outside the cathedral and the bells start going off at 9am on the dot for 15 minutes. Oh man it was so brutal...it was sooo loud and we were definitely awake. I am so glad that we decided to get a hotel. It was the best thing ever! It was two twin beds pushed together and I was …

  Watching the pictures and reading the blogs about all that travelbuddy meetups that took place made me envy the fun the participants had there. I just hope one day a meetup would appear I would be definitely able to join. I think the first one who told me about the Antwerp meetup planned for May was Lauro. It looked really fine, that was the time when I was supposed to be in Düsseldorf in Germany, Antwerp is not that far away, yeaaah. I found the corresponding blog and put me on as a…

After considertly sayng, I would not organiz a meet up if they would tortur me, I decided to take the plonge and listen to 'alxb.' Sayng that I could do it and will hav the ability to hold travbuddys to enjoy there stay in 'antwerp.' I knew I could not do this, with out 'kornifalig', who is the lover of 'antwerp' him selv. He loves the city, if it would kil him. We tryd to figur out, how to get them here and how to let them see the city. Although 'antwerp' is not that big, we managed to hav g…

Sylvie and Pieter invited us travbuddies for a meet up in their hometown, Antwerp.

I was laaate to wake up, like the rest. Before I got ready hastily, last one to do so, the rest of the folks had already left with Sylvie back into town. Me and Peter took the tram/subway back to Central and then Groenplatz. The group was chilling out at one of the cafes. Sat there quite a while, drinking beer and had a nice big "farmer's omellete" breakfast.Post-breakfast, was time for Peter's tour of the city. Saw the castle, mayor's office, old town streets and back to Groenplatz where peo…

Blog about the Antwerp Meetup May 2008

Haha, the great peopl who came to visit 'antwerp.'

Since I lov to sleep, I hav to get used to wakng up early, when I'm on a holiday, so I'm able to see things in day light, haha. This is some thing I still hav to get used to. We wak up early to get some cofee and hav breakfast, which was like one thing realy. Havng to check out of the hotel, we had to bring our suit cases to the city, so we decided to put them at the train station. While we were lookng for that, this old woman kept helpng us, which was so sweet, but at a certain time ann…

The picture you see here is "technically" December 21st as it was indeed after midnight on the 20th. I added it here - alone - only because it is the last picture ever taken by my camera. :( {edit... you may or may not have noticed that there are now more pictures ... I finally got my disposable camera developed & scanned.  I'm not super pleased with the results (particularly for the Amsterdam ones), but I uploaded some of them anyway} At the hostel I was staying at, to get to the …

Sometimes I`m just like a boy, because when I have to choose between shopping in Antwerp, or sailing through the port, I don`t have to think twice! So I chose the boat trip, which was very impressing and interesting. I had never seen such a great harbour before, I really enjoyed every minute of the trip. The captain has told a lot about the port. While I was drinking my coffee and looked around with my camera, I was listening to the following information:   The port of Antwerp is t…