tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719463141092646624.post2479182342150697279..comments2023-05-28T06:23:51.229-04:00Comments on Teatime Journeys: Day 8--Antwerp on King's DayCarriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15761581520765059264noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719463141092646624.post-4793995824282283932020-06-21T23:29:39.548-04:002020-06-21T23:29:39.548-04:00This comment was excessively long, LOL. Sorry.This comment was excessively long, LOL. Sorry.Katherine, againnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2719463141092646624.post-37246787869242438022020-06-21T23:29:02.142-04:002020-06-21T23:29:02.142-04:00• I like how you completely omitted the EXTREME ST...• I like how you completely omitted the EXTREME STRESS of buying the train tickets to Antwerp. Those moments are best left forgotten (and yet here I am bringing it up, LOL). Everything worked out...but that really sucked, haha. Totally my fault for suggesting we use the ticket machines, thinking they'd be faster. WHY did those ticket machines have to be so much more complicated than literally every other ticket machine we'd encountered. MOVING ON...<br />• I absolutely LOVED the train station in Antwerp! So art deco! There was actually a lot of art deco there.<br />• Our breakfast yogurt today had a fancier presentation than the $$$ Amsterdam yogurt, but the taste was vastly inferior (in my opinion). Still, you know I'm glad that we paused to eat. :-P.<br />• But how did you not take any photos of the AMAZING chocolates and macarons on display at the Stadsfeestzaal? They were insane! I should have bought a snack for the five-minute walk to the Rubenshuis.<br />• ...which, by the way, was unexpectedly FREE that day! Woot! More chocolate money!<br />• You were so excited about those random ladies in Venetian garb, haha.<br />• We bought our first ~authentic~ Belgian chocolates at The Chocolate Line... but definitely not our last. I look back on the amount of chocolate we consumed in Belgium with 50% shame and 50% insane jealousy of past-me.<br />• Your photos of the interiors at the Plantin-Moretus museum are all so good! Mine came out really dark and kind of fuzzy, but I think this is where your efforts to actually learn how your camera works really paid off. The light through the windows is just really cool.<br />• Calling out Photo No. 58 especially. I have a similar one that actually turned out fairly well. But there's something about the light and the color of the room... *heart eyes*<br />• Ugh, I'd totally repressed our dine-'n'-dash moment at the pancake place, haha. <br />• The Cathedral was nice, though. I GUESS I'm glad we saw it instead of eating more pancakes... maybe. :-P. I like food.<br />• HOWEVER, I want to specifically compliment Photo Nos. 86, 88, and 102 because I love them, even though I could have been eating pancakes when you were taking them. :-P.<br />• I couldn't get decent photos of that amazing carved pulpit with either of my cameras. :(.<br />• The pizza place was OBVIOUSLY my idea, haha. Sorry. BUT it was a legit Italian place run by legit Italian people, and I feel like the pizza was tasty! Plus, we'd already eaten Thai and Indian, so it was time to squeeze in some Italian. :-P.<br />• Photo No. 119 is also frameworthy.<br />• UGH THAT HORRIBLE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR WITH THE WIND AND LACK OF ADEQUATE COVER :( :( :( :(. That was the WORSTTTTTTTTT. But I guess it made the sky prettier afterwards (minor silver lining).<br />• Also, the view from the harbor was pretty underwhelming. I feel like Rick missed the boat on this one. Also, wasn't this where we ran into that other group that was following the same Rick Steves walking tour? LOL.<br />• The waffle in the station was pretty good-- not our best, but not bad. Mine had strawberries and whipped cream, I think. But I remember it was super-melty and so it was a race against time to eat it, haha.<br />• I think my back also randomly spasmed here for no reason and I almost fell down in the middle of the station. Fun!<br />• Just looking at those King's Day hordes triggers my extreme social anxiety, haha. Sorry that I suck so much. The huge crowds are particularly surreal to see now.<br />• FINALLY, just to give ourselves a little bit of credit, the inefficiency in our itinerary that you highlighted at the end of the post and clearly still bothers you to this day (LOL) only became obvious when it was too late to do anything about it! We'd already booked hotels in Amsterdam and Bruges/Brussels before we finalized the itinerary, right? And this was the only day to slot Antwerp. So we were not QUITE as dumb as we looked. I think. <br /><br />Excited to see the Belgium posts and hopefully a zillion photos of all of the chocolates that we ate!Katherinenoreply@blogger.com