Friday, April 16, 2010

Other towers in the town

Or at least buildings with height.





Thursday, April 15, 2010

Antwerpen cathedral

We will look into the magnificent and richly endowed cathedral shortly, but first a look at the tower above it.







Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Station stairs

Not least cool were the stairs - what an angle!





Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Inside the station

The stairs! Amazingly cool!





Antwerpen railway station!

... had really cool architecture!







Monday, April 12, 2010

Ugly infrastructure!

The ugliness of infrastructure has often fascinated me, but more often struck me a third-world-phenomenon - how wrong was I not!

Brügge houses

A last look at Brügge house facades.







Sunday, April 11, 2010

Trees all around

Trees and seasons I can really miss!







Town square

The most classic feature of all, the town square, dominates all low country towns!







Saturday, April 10, 2010

Details

All very classic northern continental European urban architecture features!





Churches

Everywhere we looked, there were amazing magnificent buildings...







Friday, April 09, 2010

Pruned liners?

Alleys were lined by harshly pruned trees resembling a fence more than vegetation - it took me some time to figure out, actually!







Thursday, April 08, 2010

Bridges of Brügge

Very unusual for my everyday environment but deeply familiar still for my old world soul - real old architecture, beautifully vaulted and crafted bridges and churches.







Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Musandam Easter peek

An early peek at my Easter - before I return to northern Europe for the rest of the winter photos. ;-)





Walking around Brügge

More Brügge.