I’m busy. And tired. And busy. And tired. Probably tired, because I’m busy. My mind is a bit all over the place. Work. Politics. Local, national and global. Life. Plans. Overwhelm. In a variety of ways. But then I also feel like I’m getting a handle on it and feel sort of cautiously optimistic. Or maybe I’m just kidding myself 🙂 I’m doing too many things at once that’s for sure. Some are unavoidable. Some might be just my means to deal with the overwhelm. Enough of this vague rambling.
At least I finally took the time to go through the rest of the Antwerp photos. It was gloomy most of the time, so I won’t share too many photos, because grey sky above grey buildings is depressing. I’ll go back to Antwerp next year for sure…
There are some interesting sculptures and statues in the city centre. Nello & Patrasche in front of the cathedral and then of course the Brabo fountain, which shows Roman hero Brabo throwing the hand he had cut off a giant. The “hand throwing” (hand – worpen in dutch) is the reason the city is called Antwerp.
The grey and gloomy sky was the reason I only share a night time photo of the outside of the cathedral. I went in after a long day of sightseeing, so I might not have been able to take it all in with the appreciation it deserves. It’s a vast space filled with typical cathedral stuff – stained glass windows, statues and all that. This one though also had a lot of paintings by Rubens.
We also went to this cool modern building – the MAS – Museum an de Stroom, which houses a variety of collections. We went up to the roof terrace. By escalator because we didn’t see the sign for the lift. There clearly needs to be better signage, because I’m sure we looked! We were tired! Escalators are fine of course, but it took ages. Look at the size of the building. But enough moaning, it was kind of cool.
