A couple of times a year we spend a weekend in Antwerp. This was the city where our maternal grandmother was born, and from early on we we headed to '''t Stad" when we needed something that could not be attained in Dendermonde.
This habit has stayed on all these years. We just love Antwerp. It's a big town with a beautiful historic center. It offers history, old mansions and musea, entertainment (Antwerp Philharmonic, opera, theater, musical theater, lots of shops (from cheap ones to high end ones like Philippe Patek, Delvaux, etc.), has lots of hotels, restaurants and cafés.
We always stay at the Hilton Old Town near the Groenplaats, right in the medieval center of town. We have a couple of restaurants there which we frequent, and a cafe (De Post) at the square where we like to linger with something cool (or warm) to drink.
We spent the previous weekend once more in Antwerp. The occasion? We attended a concert with the Royal Philharmonic which played the music of Bond. And of course, I did a lot of shopping! I urgently needed some sun tops and a couple of dresses. I found what I was looking for, and even some more... Well, you have to spend your money on something, right?
It was a spendid weekend. The weather was great, sunny all the time and the temperature still moderate. The stay at the hotel was also great, no noise from other rooms so we could sleep well. And everything back to normal, as if corona never existed.
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