03-30-2024 Walk-Run

I got up early, after having been awoken during the night by rain on the roof. Had originally thought about going for a morning ride, but the rain stopped me. I went for a walk instead, into Linden a little bit, it's a bunch of houses and not so many businesses. Near the turnaround point, I started jogging slowly and kept it up all the way back to the Airbnb. Ann was up, and we got ready to leave. Our host Remco gave us a ride to the tram stop, which was great since it had started to rain again. I had some sprinkles on my walk but didn't get too wet. When we got to the tram stop, Ann had a brief moment of panic when she looked at travel times to Schiphol and saw it would get us there right before our train was supposed to leave. But I saw a shorter route suggestion, and we got some useful info from the guy on the tram who sold us the tickets. Got off at Lelylaan station and transferred to the Sprinter, which kept us from having to go all the way to Amsterdam Centraal. We got to the train station in plenty of time, and we boarded the Eurostar train on time, at 10:33. The ride to Antwerp took a little over an hour. The Antwerp train station is quite beautiful. We parked our stuff in a locker and started walking in the neighborhood near the station. After about 15 minutes, Ann heard back from our Airbnb host that the flat was available. So we headed back, got our stuff, and walked the 10 minutes or so to the Airbnb. After unloading our bags, we decided to walk over to the Plantin-Moretus museum of printing history. The weather was blustery, but we didn't really get rained on, although it was damp. The museum was interesting, and the audio tour was worth it and informative. Toward the end, it got a little repetitive, and we were both ready to leave. We walked back toward the flat and stopped at a place for shawarma and falafel. Food was decent, but I was hungry later, since that was our late lunch. We stopped at a supermarket near the train station before heading back to the flat. Quiet evening there, watched a little BBC and had some snacks, including stroopwaffel.