Antwerp

Ahead of the concert of Melanie the 25th of october in I think 2005 I went to Antwerp to do some siteseeing so I knew where I had to be and stuff.

The concert was held at the Arenberg schouwburg you can see on the picture below where this was because they also had a hotel sign outside

The weather was reasonable and there where a few people outside enjoying the sun

 

Also because I have contacts living in Edegem a suburb of Antwerp I went to a nice bistro called the Specht look at me being proud in front of this bistro.

But not everything was alright.

It was the second day of my visit and I did cycle around the 30 kilometres when a large crane was blocking the road I had to cycle.

Being to sure of myself I thought I could just without stepping of my bike go on the sidewalk where the pedestrians walk.

Big mistake I fell very hard made a very upclose inspection of the pavement.

And on this I would like to make a grievence to the city board... keep your city clean the sidewalk was coverd with blood, oh ok I forgot it was my blood hehe

But I was taken away by Ambulance to the hospital just a small local hospital not far from where I was.

Before the ambulance came some nice people of the Fortis bank took care of me.

My thanks goed out to those nice people of the bank they helped me very nice.

When I was at the hospital and waiting for the docter I had to make a picture of myself because I looked quite bad

But if you think I look bad you should have seen my opponent hehe (the sidewalk was very bloody)

 

Taking the accident and everything else in account it was three hours later that I could make my way to the train station.

And this also was a bit difficult because some trains werent moving along on the train track so we could all get out of the train and we didn't know what would happen next.

So we stood in Utrecht and there were no trains coming or going to Amersfoort but if you could get to Amersfoort you could proceed with your journey.

Let hear it for the dutch traincompany the ns.

But all in all the time I spent in Antwerp and the 60 kilometres I cycled there were ok I enjoyed them.

It could have been better but my friends from Antwerp were on a holiday too otherwise we had fun together

Of course I do a lot more then just travel I have also worked as an volunteer at the wk athletics for disabled people you can also read about this adventure