Showing posts with label nationalestraat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nationalestraat. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Bitter Sweet café (Bitter Zoet)








One of my fav places to enjoy breakfast or just a latté !
Still brill weather outside so I might just enjoy my coffee outside ... and enjoy the company of Lisa, the owner of Bitter Zoet ...
These kinda places always attract creative or arty people, just like this morning.
The 2 guys seen in the pictures are creators of a (new) character they'd like to become a household name to newspapers like De Standaard or De Morgen ... They draw and invent adventures for a short comic rready to be launched soon !
They gave good face too, as seen in the pics ! Thanks for posing for me guys !

Thursday, 19 March 2009

Finally, Sissy-Boy in Antwerp


Remember the pics of those 2 young girls I posted a few days ago ?
Well, on that same street - Nationalestraat - an ancient building is being restored since a couple of years and finally it's getting to the point of being finalised.
This morning, walking by and headed for the post office (yes you guys, I'm also into snail-mail, call me nostalgic) I saw the building finally got new windows downstairs and there was a sign hanging wich said ; Sissy-Boy opening soon !
I'm so thrilled cause I love this basic Dutch brand, kinda Bellerose style but even more basic and on top - they also sell house stuff !
The only time I could visit the SB stores was when I visited Amsterdam or online ...
So, now I can stroll down a new store pretty soon and take advantage when they do some damn good sales ...

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Closed or open ?



Mondays, I have my day off...I mean, that's the day my shop is closed and I do my mandatory errands (post, bank, paperwork) but I also take the time to relax, have some quality time on my own and do some things I been longing to do for some time...
Tomorrow, I need to get back to Lindsay to have my hair coloured (scissor work has been done last week, as you all know by now) - but that's at 9am...so, I still have plenty of time to relax and go out afterwards.
I've been thinking about going to the MoMu (Mode Museum = Fashion Museum) to see the Paper Collection but I just checked the opening days/hours and so not fair = they're closed on Mondays.....:-//
Luckily we have a little piece of our town near the central station that is open 24/7 ; Chinatown !
I love to go the Sun Wah supermarket and browse through the shelves to see what product has the nicest 'emballage' and I'll just buy it because it looks 'hot' ...
Last time I visited the SW-supermarket I bought this wonderful packaged tea with 101 Hello Kitty-figurines on each paper but the tea tasted horrendous...I expected some lovely jasmin-flavoured tea and got some very spicy herbal broth instead .... 
I still get goosebumps when I think about it ....
But hey, I never turn off what I have not tasted before...
Hope to bring you some nice pics and stories tomorrow ..

Have a lovely Sunday (night) ....