Trip to Antwerpen

On Sunday we decided to make a trip to Antwerpen.
Attendance: Anka, Ivana, Matjaš (guy from Slovenia working in the office of Mr Peterle, MEP) and me.

First train that we were supposed to take was cancelled. Second train was half an hour late :-)) In addition, there was some other train coming before ours. We got on thinking it is ours. Then somebody said: "This is not the right one, get off quickly!!!" Matjaš managed to get off, but none of us did not. The door was already blocked. We told him good bye through the window hoping to get off on the next station :-)) Luckily, we were having fun and finally, we all met in the right train heading to Antwerpen.

• we visited Museum of Diamonds (really nice one - plenty of information, interesting exhibition)
• we ate in one pizzeria, where all servers pretended to be Italian (but they were really far from being Italian)
• we walked around the city - great town hall with flags of all EU members, nice fountain in the middle of the main square, river reminding me of Danube, small castle and nice streets

For me the most interesting part was Jewish quarter. There were many orthodox Jewish walking in the streets. I had impression to be in an old movie - all of them had this typical, for me old-fashion clothes, beards and hats. Even their bicycles seemed to be from old movie. It is really interesting to see so many different cultures here - people from Africa, India, Arabs, Jewish. And all of them live in their communities so different one from another. In their way of life. In peace.