Rumour has it that the freezing 'real winter' weather is due to arrive here in Antwerpen next week meanwhile we have the excitement of friends flying in from Turkey next weekend ... therefore today is the day we spring clean.We're wanting Lisen and Yakup to taste as much of this part of Europe as is possible, without exhausting anyone in the process. We have lots of Belgie on the list, with them wandering over to Amsterdam and Paris alone.
I love preparing for guests ... the cleaning that I find so uninspiring on a day to day basis isn't so bad when friends are flying in. Planning the local food and the drink, studying up on special places in Antwerpen, Brussels, Bruges and Ghent ... hoping to slip Leuven and Ieper into the mix ... we'll see how their stamina and our time management goes.
There's a lunch at Het Elfde Gebod and another lunch over at El Vergel in Brussels. There is the sculpture museum, Rubens House and parks like Rivierenhof and/or Tevuren ... and then there's a B&B in the Alsace region calling their name.
Back to the cleaning ... I'll leave you with a photograph from Gert's Istanbul collection ... he took this one in the Underground Cistern in Sultanahmet.
Tot straks.
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