"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." ~Lao Tzu~

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Belgium - Antwerp: Postcrossingsmeeting

Hi Mom and Luna,

How are you doing?
Today i got a postcrossingsmeeting in Antwerp. Meeting a lot of people!

Meeting point: Central Station at Starbucks.


Ther is a big spinning wheel at the station!


The whole group, heading forward to that strange building in front called: Het MAS

Belgium boats at "Linkeroever"


Het MAS means: Museum Aan de Stroom. 
free translated is is: museum at the stream.  
The stream is the Schelde very important river. 
The sunlighton the picture below is not for real.  The camera is doing tricks I guess.
 beam me up scotty

Hostmom is taking pictures of me.
still frontseat-view :) 

The pictures taken on top of the building on the panorama deck...




below you can see the Schelde 


going downstairs to another platform inside.  Less windy 






 oh helloo :::: :P



To for lunch... very quick... 

... so we can start to write the cards!


change of decor... we keep op writing! 
lots and lots  of cards!!

doing crazy with hostmom Cin :P


Time to post the cards that are written... oohhh not me, help!
Help I am stuck..

Little bit of sideseeing in Antwerp.  Hostmom is testing the screen for taking a picture.

 grouppicture... can you find me??

the famous Cathedral. 

This is called "Het Steen" translated as "the stone"
It is nowerdays a museum of maritime

very famous buildings at townsquare

not coment... 

Cityhall and the statue of Brabo.
He is throwing a humanhand. 
Throwing = werpen
     hand = hand 
so you get : HANDWERPEN
that's how ANTWERPEN got its name.


The big cathedral is very impressive and Hostmom told me she was never been inside.
So I was lucky.

First of all we lit a candle for all the childeren that died on the crash with the bus in Switserland.




 So many candles burning. 

I am in the picture below, can you find me?? 
The official name of the church in Dutch. 




It was a great day!!!!

Happy Postcrossing!!!
Stella