lillo - rommelmarkt deluxe

and on this slightly cloudy sunday, we decided to head over to the annual Lillo Sjachermarkt - similar to the rommelmarkts we have written previously about where basically everyone brings out their barang barang and tries to sell it off..

we got 5  nice frames for 5 euros [one has its glass pane broken in 2 bits, but we'll fix that] and got to see a wide variety of strange and wonderful things..

this pic however, is of the boat-park during low tide..

and this is just to the side of the core of the buying and selling area; everyone was making a beeline for this bit of the town because of the fries as well as the pub [in the brown bricked building in the centre]

where they have a very low archway for an entrance!!

and here we are enjoying our lunch in the outdoor terrace - classic belgian gastronomy; fries with mayo and a beer [i'm having a De Konnick, the local brew from Antwerp - which i've picked up a taste for!!]
and here is the dockside of Lillo...strangely enough, there has been a campaign by the inhabitants of this tiny town to keep the industrialization of the port at bay - it took a good 2o minute drive from the city through the docks of the port before arriving in Lillo...and the Lillo

Sjachermakrt is testament to this!!

in the distance is the rest of the docks and pretty much the core of the shipping trade in Antwerp [which by the way, is also a pretty important stop for all those ships that probably come through Singapore].. it felt a bit surreal; for a Singapore reference, it was kinda like going for a pretty much original- authentic kampung-esque experience in the Shenton Way area, by geographic distance!!!