Hi dear all,
During one of our days off the boy and I decided to take the train for a 2 hour ride down south and crossed the border with Belgium all the way to Antwerp.
Antwerp has been on my "must see" list for a long time, so now I can finally tick that box! It was an easy train ride from Utrecht and the city itself is very beautiful. We walked via the big market to the riverside and saw a couple of highlights from this amazing Belgium city.
But what would Antwerp be without all the shops? It's like fashion heaven for a true fashionista. You see, we don't have Forever21 in the Netherlands. We do have Urban Outfitters, finally, but only since last week. So you can imagine I had to do a little bit more than just window shopping.
I end up buying nothing due to the lack of money. However I wanted to have all the stuff from 'Camille over the rainbow' for Pimkie. Such an amazing collection! I loved all the pieces she designed, but maybe I'll buy something later during this season. Anyway, enough chitchat, I'll show you the pictures and I hope you like them :)
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During our last morning in beautiful and romantic Bruges, we walked around and went to the 'chocolate story', a museum about the best food in the world. It was a bit boring if I may say, but we definitely enjoyed the chocolate which was handed to us at the end of our little museum tour. We walked a little bit more, took even more pictures and bought some things at 'Dille and Kamille', a super cute store in the middle of Bruges.
During our second day in Bruges we went shopping right after breakfast. The hotel served the breakfast in a small basement, super cute and cosy and besides that, the breakfast was delicious!
Shopping wasn't very succesfull: I didn't find anything which made me a bit grumpy. Why on earth would a person get grumpy when you don't find anything while you weren't even searching for something in particular? Oh well, it's just me or the silly hormonal me. My boyfriend on the other hand found some nice tshirts to add to his already big tshirt collection ;-)
After a heavy lunch we headed to the 'Half Moon factory' where they make my boyfriends most favorite thing in the world: beer. Pure belgium beer, the golden stuff, you know what I mean. We strolled around for an hour and enjoyed a delicious beer afterwards. But that was not the only thing we did during that day: we went on a boat tour, strolled around in the city, took thousands of pictures and had the most delicious greek dinner at 'the olive tree'.
Last week we took my car and crossed the border in the south to Bruges, Belgium. That was a good drive and men, those were 3 awesome days! We enjoyed the 2,5 hour car ride and giggled all the way. We arrived around 5PM and were in a desperate need of food (at least, I was...). After two hours of joy and laughter, the last 30 minutes were not so fine as we couldn't find a mac donalds (original plan) and discovered the road to Bruges is a road somewhere in the middle of nowhere. No fastfoodchains whatsoever.
After a well deserved sandwich we enjoyed the lovely evening in Bruges. It's such a pretty, romantic city! The lighting that day was beautiful: blue skies and during the evening it all turned a bit red. Because of my early wake up call that same morning, we went to bed straight after the sunset.
More about Bruges soon, but here are the pictures of the first evening :)
Right now I'm writing from Brussels, Belgium. Slightly bored but relaxed, I've got a day over. Which means, more than 24 hours of Belgium fun here in the hotel. I did a little bit of walking, photographing, exercising but mostly relaxing. It's pretty comfortable here, a good hotel with good food and a very relaxed bed!
I do apologize for my two days of absence. I'm really busy lately. I do the best I can, but blogging is slightly more on the background nowadays. I'm spending more time with friends, family and my boyfriend and time managment is not my thing I think. But I'll be back soon with more recipes, fashion and fun! For now, enjoy my greyish brussels pictures.
