Day 1: This place is great, even the hospital beds have bongs ... oh wait.

Day 1: A little more than 24 hours after surgery Jon's hard at work on the computer. Either that or he's watching Gilmore Girls.

Day 1: Leiden University Medical Center, this is more than a tour, we are visiting Jon who had his appendix taken out.

Day 1: Bikes are a primary mode of transportation. With narrow roads and even more narrow alleys bikes offer an agile mode of transportation. The key is to have your bike look like crap so no one will steal it.

Day 1: O Sole Mio is a favorite of Jon and Jen.

Day 1: Still orienting.

Day 1: Temps were warm enough for the boats to start coming out.

Day 1: This is the end of Haarlemmer Straat, Better known as shopping street. There are a ton of stores like you might see at a mall.

Day 1: This goose was getting a little lippy (?).

Day 1: The goats are maintaining the grass. That is anchor park, we'll see more of it later.

Day1: Jen took us for a quick orientation tour of the neighborhood.

Day 1: This is Leiden Centraal Station. At this point we had been in the rental car for two hours, the plane and airport for 9-10 hours. We arrived here via a 25 minute train ride after Jen met us at the airport.

Jen's fries had sate` sauce on them. It's a thai sauce that is pretty much like warm peanut butter. It's really better than it sounds. 

Jon handing me Fries with mayonaise. "They drown 'em in that [expletive]." 

The story of the origins of the name Antwerp. 

Some crappy foreign car :D 

I believe this is an old Puegeot, another Antwerp find. 

Mini Cooper Cabriolet, We walked past the Mini Antwerp Store, they had about 20 on site. 

No ID, bad part of town. 

A classic the world over. 

A hot dog cart. "That's all I have to say about that." 

I didn't catch the make or model on this car, but, I like the lines. 

This, thing, was labeled a Subaru "Classic", I don't think it is either. 

"That looks like the Subaru." Yeah, only half the size and front wheel drive. 

Another angle ... 

A classic ... Volvo? It's not boxy but, it looks good. 

A Citroen, jalopy. 

A Ford Ka, that's right Ka so a pair parked next to each other would be? The Escort is a light duty pick-up chasis over there. 

A Citroen in pretty good shape. 

This begins the weird cars of Europe portion of the blog... A Smart car, all electric two seater. 

There was a bit of a language barrier in our travels but, some things just translate well. This poster was in Antwerp, Belgium. The text beneath the headline reads "The party with the best 100 gay hits of all time, broadcasting on April 9th from 3-5 PM, 25th edition, also for heteros."