Today was Antwerpen, tomorrow the road ... that was the title I chose, 8 years ago today. And I wrote:
Antwerpen was stunning today ... 30 degrees celsius and we were out in the city with our American friends. (Old friend and a favourite traveling companion, Mary Lou, and her, then, new husband. Oh the adventures we've had ... in New Zealand, Turkey and Europe.)
We ate lunch at het Elfde Gebold and it was lovely, as usual. And later we sat a while in the Shoemakers Alley a while, a secret space here in the city.
We ended the day in Rivierenhof, a huge park here in the city, wandering home, at 10.30pm ... still 21 degrees celsius. (not unlike tonight, here in 2014).
But no ... I almost forgot, we got stuck in the elevator I've so often teased friends about. (Our first place was top floor, tiny elevator the shook and wobbled a lot.)
FOUR OF US, in this tiny airless nasty elevator. It was 11pm by then and none of us were carrying a cellphone!!
We were lucky, Gert pushed various buttons and managed to get us level with a floor eventually ... we spilled out and nothing but nothing would convince me to get back in. He rode to the top alone while we 3 took the stairs.
The elevator is officially no longer amusing.
I found this blog post while searching for poems by Kapka Kassabova. Google-searching, and I was beamed back to an old blog, the one I began way back in 2005. I thought it might be fun to post something here from that day back in 2006
Back when Mary Lou was still criss-crossing the world to travel with me. She had not long arrived ...
Perhaps I should have titled tonight's post ... Missing you, Mary Lou.