1) a classic belgian waffle place called desiree de lillle...with all sorts of waffle-y goodness - deep fried dough balls in sugar, lacquemants and waffles everywhere
2) several 2nd hand shops with really nice furniture - we've pretty much gotten all our required things, so just looking around lah.. there was even one with park benches, school desks and even hospital bedside cast iron utility cabinets!
3) a place that only sold tiles...but some really nice stuff! there were full colour glazed ones and washed-out-finish ones and mosaics and they had a really cool range of plant motifs...
4) an animal friendly shoe shop that carried a brand called :
vegetarian shoes
what a cool concept, but also what an awesome name!!
[at this point, i realise it is a little lame without pictures and will be sure to include pics in the future] ----
so cool to know that the city still has so much more to explore..
but the biggest suprise for us was at the end of our jalan jalan session; where we chanced upon an old building in a small square along the waterside...and we found.,...
the sint anna tunnel:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Antwerp,+Belgium&ie=UTF8&f=q
this is a 530m underground tunnel under the Schelde for pedestrians and cyclist only! the photo below doesn't do justice to the tunnel...but the perspective you get standing at one end is amazing!!
here is a mosaic giving the basic info on the tunnel..
and this was the other cool part about this tunnel...the escalators were made of wood!!! not just the housing for the escalator, but they used wooden slats to make up each escalator landing!!!!
amazing!!
today, we will be running around a small area about 15 mins walk from our place where there are apparently art nouveau buildings everywhere!! [we spent a good 4+ hours doing up the painting for the small room in the apartment and have decided to leave the 2nd coat for tomorrow] -- so more pics on both those things in the coming days...
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