Playlist
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2025
Edward Spark - Happening Afterwards
Haydn - Six String Quartets Op 33 (Tatrai)
Vlaams Radiokoor & Bart van Reyn - Entartete Musik
Michiel Borstlap - Blue
Up at 7:15 and it had been raining over night…
Wrote this up, as has become the norm on this trip…
Just after 9, round to Carrefour for rolls…
Breakfast…
The Beast of Antwerp...
Out just after 10. Our goal today had been to take a boat trip up the river but the wind level and shower propensity dictated otherwise...
We retraced our steps from Friday morning towards the cathedral...
I really liked a painting...
We passed today's more antique oriented flea market at the tunnel…
We noted more detail around the cathedral, including the story of Nello & Patrasche along with nearby well…
We walked on around the cathedral looking for two things and finding three…
The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, St Charles’ Borromeo Church and, a little bit further on, the Borzemarkt, one time trading centre of Antwerp and, indeed, the whole of the Netherland region…
On exiting the last of these, we saw the “first skyscraper in Europe” for the first time, having only walked around its base previously…
As we wandered, we found a few interesting galleries and, indeed, record shops…
One of these, Panolpy, not only had poster for Jazz Middelheim (1976)) in its window but a book on documenta 8 (1987) too…
Opened at 1 and we would return…
Around noon, we arrived at the nearby Veemarkt...
...where basketball was being played in front of an enthusiastic crowd...
At Cafe de Zwoele Zwaluw, overlooking the public basketball court, coffee/beer was enjoyed…
Further walking took us down towards the river, where it was blowing a gale (reminding us we’d made the correct decision to postpone the boat trip) and back again, passing the oldest still-standing house in Antwerp, dating from 1480…
At 1 we were back outside Panolpy - the owner arrived around 10 past and in we went…
I secured the documenta book for 7 Euros (£30 plus £21 postage on Amazon) and a still shrink wrapped Michiel Borstap CD…
The walking continued...
Lunch at Burger King...
...and then a tram journey we will make again tomorrow, the No 4 to Berchem Station…
We noted the last tram times for our journey home from the jazzfest tomorrow night…
We walked down the street Cogels-Oselei, with its strange but beautiful housing architecture…
Through Draakplaats, we walked on to Dageraadplaats, where another, much more interesting flea market was underway…
A CD of “degenerate music” (aptly, recorded in Brussels by Flemish musicians) was secured for a further 3 Euros…
Back to Draakplaats and we stopped in at Cafe den Draak for wine/beer…
Caught the No 4 tram all the way home just after 4…
Chocolate eclairs were picked up post alighting and enjoyed at home around 5, along with the “entartete” CD, as we relaxed and rested…
A note sent round my Bandcamp followers re the offer of CBQ remixes if they bought Edward Spark’s new LP…
Back out at 6:40...
....and a No 1 to Opera...
...was followed by a short walk to Chinatown…
Having surveyed menus and clientele along the length of the one street that seems to comprise said Chinatown, we chose China Star…
And we chose well…
Tip top Sweet & Sour Chicken for Annie (with zero of the usual “gloop” present) and a fiery beef dish (similar perhaps to Kung Po) with a monumental amount of chilis involved…
A tram home as the sun was setting...
...for more relaxation, including 1st listen to the very fine indeed Borstlap CD…
Discussions with our hosts re the malfunctioning TV - they will fix it…
To bed around 11 - Middelheim Jazz Fest tomorrow, including The Bad Plus and GoGo Penguin…
Highlight of the Day : Wandering around discovering stuff…
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