An was a great tour guide. She got a historic walk with a lot of neat stuff marked on it. We started near a fountain that is Jessie’s new favorite. It has a guy throwing a hand. The old story is that A giant used to guard the river and someone finally stood up to him and cut off his head and took his hand (Hant) and threw (Werp) it into the river. Hence, (h)Antwerp. The fountain was really cool. The hand was spurting water, and so was the dead giant.
Doing my best to reenact the fountain.
We made several stops during our walk, and got to see the river, too. Very pretty. We got chocolate from...yeah...pretty much every chocolate shop we came to. Good stuff, too. The church was fantastic, and they were showing off a collection of (I believe) old Reubens paintings that had at one point hung in the church. Churches are always fun to look at and walk through. So much cool old stuff to see.
Another stop on the tour.
After several more chocolate shops and a lot of wandering through the very pretty streets, all a sight on their own, we made our way down to the Diamond district and went through the diamond museum, which had a lot of interesting information, all presented via really boring Audioguide. I should have just gone through the wikipedia entry for diamond. There were some cool jewelry pieces, though, and a guy polishing a diamond by hand. And then some afternoon ice cream! Never fails to lift the spirits.
One beer, two cherry beers. All tasty.
Back at An’s house, we wrote post cards to pretty much everyone and Jess sent some Lace back to Grammie. Dinner was delicious, once again, and we relaxed with some cherry beer for Jess (her new favorite) regular beer for me, and lots of chocolate for everyone. Then time for bed.
-N
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