it sure feels like europe!!

what an excellent autumn day!  the sun was shining, but still cool enough for a light jacket during a languid Sunday afternoon bicycle ride into the South [het Zuid] of Antwerp...

I'd brought along my camera for any incidental photos, but the amazing thing that i found out when I got back was that I really liked all the pictures!  There was a very fine fog in the earlier part of the day, and probably helped to diffuse the sunshine that little bit extra nicely..

here is just a doorway to a house on one of the streets leading to the Leien  [the avenues that used to be the fortifications of medieval Antwerp]

and in this pic, you get a sense of the fine mist i mentioned earlier....its quite magical what it does with the light

here, the first signs of autumn are kicking in; with just-browning leaves
and an extremely desirable addition to any home; a shrubbery!
i was gobsmacked when I saw the entrance to this unassuming ground-floor entrance to a 3 storey walk up
look at that character all behind the typeface of the number; I would love to get such a classic typeface for our next home!!
i seemed to be taking a fair number of autumn-coloured pictures, and this is one of the unexpected ones that I really liked!
and I took this pic on our way back home; isn't it amazing that the builders have to put this much effort to conserve the integrity of the neighbouring apartments on the corner?  I think I am too used to seeing yet another HDB en bloc redevelopement site...this, to me,  just says that care and effort are going into this building!!
and here was an unexpected bit of street art that jumped out of no where....can you spot it?
all in all, it really felt like a very European day out yesterday - yes, its a bit silly to state the obvious, but that's what I was thinking in my head for the rest of the day...