{"id":599,"date":"2008-09-21T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-09-20T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T00:48:21","slug":"antwerp-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp, Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600 aligncenter\" title=\"ab1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nAwesome Antwerp would receive two thumbs up\u00a0if I weren\u2019t holding the camera!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Cosmopolitan City On A Human Scale<\/strong><br \/>\nI am truly in my element in this city. The high degree of friendliness, architectural wonders, excellent public transportation, cultural places of interest and multi-ethnic English speaking population all rank high in my assessment of this lively and fun city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look Who Was Promoting His European Tour On The BBC!<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-602\" title=\"ab2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One of my guilty pleasures in Europe is watching hours of BBC and TV5 Monde. The program host talked with Stevie Wonder about his ardent support for Barack Obama and suggested he be appointed Minister of Music in the Obama cabinet. I&#8217;d support that!<\/p>\n<p>After this program I watched a terrific 1-hour Elton John concert special. Later in the evening, I tuned into BBC Africa, which I don\u2019t think is available in the states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"skyegallery\/Belgium\">Photo Album<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=599&amp;page=2\">Links<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603 aligncenter\" title=\"ab3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab3-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab3-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ab3.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNear the wandelterras (waterfront)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Links<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerpen.be\/eCache\/BEN\/16\/392.cmVjPTE1ODgx.html\" target=\"_blank\">About Antwerp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerp-tourist-guide.com\/Antwerp-Central.html\" target=\"_blank\">Antwerp Central Station<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbelgium.com\/gaytravel.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Lesbian and Gay Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerp-tourist-guide.com\/market-square-of-Antwerp.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Grote Markt&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerp-tourist-guide.com\/steen-castle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Het Steen Castle (The Stone)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerp-tourist-guide.com\/antwerp-cathedral.html\" target=\"_blank\">Antwerp Cathedral, Onze-lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Cathedral of our Lady<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Antwerp City Hall &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citymayors.com\/cityhalls\/antwerp_cityhall.html\" target=\"_blank\">1<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antwerp_City_Hall\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerp-tourist-guide.com\/Antwerp-diamonds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Antwerp Diamond Centre<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerp-tourist-guide.com\/public-transportation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Public Transportation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7438006.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Stevie Wonder European Tour (BBC Article)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbelgium.com\/waffles.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels Gauffres (Waffles)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome Antwerp would receive two thumbs up\u00a0if I weren\u2019t holding the camera! 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The high degree of friendliness, architectural wonders, excellent public transportation, cultural places of interest and multi-ethnic English speaking population all rank high in my assessment of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c8Xx-9F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/skyeview\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}