Antwerp is one of the nicest and most beautiful cities I had the chance to visit. At first
I thought of Antwerp as a pit stop between Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris
eventually but I was very wrong. People in Antwerp love 2 things: their fries, which
are the crunchiest fries I’ve ever had (apparently they fry them twice and also
add some ‘magic ingredient’ according to the person who sold them to us to
achieve this level of perfection) and their beer. The night life is very active and while talking to some locals I noticed they refer to Antwerp as “T Stad”, it sort of
translate to “THE city”, since for them there is no other place as
Antwerp. They also like to joke around saying that the rest of Belgium is just
parking space when compared to Antwerp; something which I guess makes the rest
of Belgium people a little mad. I have never thought of myself as an extremely
social person, but I feel like in Europe so far is a lot easier to approach to
an stranger for a random conversation than it is in America. They have a pretty
big biking culture, but not as big as Amsterdam and overall are really friendly
people. So far I’ve miserably failed when trying to say anything in French, but
I found out most people will speak English if you just explain you cannot speak
French and not feel offended by it in any way, they actually take it with humor
and have fun trying to teach you how to pronounce something and then laughing
when you can’t. It’s a beautiful city and you can pretty much walk anywhere in
Antwerp as the city is considerably smaller than Amsterdam and most other
cities as I’ve asked around.
One of the displays in the Fashion Museum. Really an amazing place.
The Cathedral, an absolutely astonishing place
A beautiful view from the stop of the MAS (Museum aan de Stroom)
Antwerp’s train station, one of the most gorgeous train stations in Europe.
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