Antwerp
In Antwerp, you can chase the scent of fries through narrow streets, or maybe you lose yourself among diamond merchants who seem to speak every language except the one you learned in school. Sometimes, the trams stop when you least expect it, and then, you have to walk—no biggie, more time to spot those little statues hiding on rooftops. If you ask three locals for the best hotel in Antwerp, you get five different answers, and none of them agree on breakfast times. The river Scheldt never minds if you stare, but the seagulls might.
Local weather in Belgium
SPRING
mild & temperate
SUMMER
warm & sunny
AUTUMN
mild & temperate
WINTER
cool
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Travel destination popular things to do or visit in Antwerp
Start with the train station, which does not look like a train station in the way you expect but more like a palace that lost its crown. From there, you can wander to the Grote Markt, where people take photos of statues they pretend to know the history of. Sometimes you see a wedding, sometimes you see a skateboarder nearly join the wedding by accident. The cathedral bells ring, and nobody looks up.
Popular things to do in Antwerp include hunting for street art that changes every year, so the mural you see today might be gone tomorrow, or maybe it just moved around the corner. Some folks say the best hotel in Antwerp is the one next to a chocolate shop, others swear by the one with the slowest elevator in Europe. Whether you come for fashion, for old paintings, or just to say you took a boat on the Scheldt, Antwerp has a way of making you forget your plans and invent new ones on the spot. Just don’t ask for waffles after midnight; the answer will confuse you.
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