Brugge

Wednesday evening we arrived in Brugge. After check in we took a short walk around and hit on an open air stage, part of the Klinkers Festival, called Klinkende Kroegen, where they hired Sweet Coffee for a DJ set featuring a live Sax. The setup was very similar to the Phononoia gigs in cooperation with Mani Marillo at several Hoffests (upcoming event scheduled for 30.09.2011 at the Ottakringer Brauerei). This posts hints are our B&B in Brugge, the Abiente, located next to the Centre and the Chocolatier Dumon, one of the last small chocolate shops with in house production -> In both cases I only say highly recommendable.

 

You really want to see something? For sure you have to pay for it!!

Gent

Next stop in Belgium: Gent, a relaxing 1hrs ride from Antwerp heading west. Because we rented a B&B in Brugge, we only had the "day time" to visit this lovely city with its intimate city centre.

Zeebrugge. Weather was quite OK, before entering Brugge we drove to Zeebrugge and spotted this verrukkelijk surf station

The down side of North Sea Tourism, Blankenberge, next to Zeebrugge.

Antwerp

Together with Mrs. N I spent Monday and Tuesday in Antwerp, Belgium. Easy to reach from Brielle (1 1/2 hrs drive with the car) and being the "Diamond City" it was not that hard to motivate Mrs. N to join this trip, although we were in the Diamond district not even one time. But I have some other tips for everybody who wants to visit Antwerp and is not fond of super touristic stuff: Go to Marnixplaats, in the south of Antwerp, and you will find some good restaurants like Lucy Chang or the Fiskebar or nice and comfy bars e.g. the Vitrin or the Boudoir, located at the right Schelde bank near the City Centre.

Central Station in Antwerp is for sure one of the most beautiful ones in Europe

 

Wooden escalator to reach the St. Anna tunnel below the river Schelde

The tunnel is 572m long

 

Walls from the MAS Museum

 

Muzieklabyrint in the Steen, the old castle

"fashion store" in Antwerp -> no comment

NetHouse

Perhaps you have noticed it, the play.fm widget on the right side presents a new mix from me. And yes it´s true, there was a new recording uploaded. Mixed entirely "in the box" for the first time with Traktor Pro2, using only tracks licenced under Creative Commons. Here is the direct link to the track´s page on play.fm.

Blijdorp

A special for my brother: The Zoo in Rotterdam (http://www.rotterdamzoo.nl/?lang=EN) followed by a coffee at the Hotel New York, one of the buildings that survived the aerial bombardment (14.05.1940) of WW II.

The Zoo has two parts, divided by the railroad

Best children play ground ever

Leiden

This weekend´s journey: Leiden
After a successful landing of Mrs. N late Thursday, we were happy to visit Leiden on Saturday, more or less without getting soaked completely (there was only one thunderstorm today).

Very impressive: the Pieterskerk with its famous and shining Hagerbeer organ. Please take a look at the Pieterskerk homepage what you can actually all do in this church!