Woke up to rain and walked the block to the laundry before leaving Paris. Doing laundry on the road is not my favorite but it is colder than we expected so I want to make sure we have what we need for the bike trip. Laundry done and off to the train station to find the Thalys Train to Belgium. We walked about a mile through MontMarte to the station and had plenty of time to find our train. While we waited I found the toilets and paid my .70e! Paying for toilets is just too bazzare.
The trains are a great way to travel, its a bit confusing looking for the right type of train as they have their own schedules and appear to be in the same station but they are not. The good news is everyone in the train stations so far are very nice and so helpful. Our train finally came and we had good seats for the ride to Antwerp.
We arrived in Antwerp and after getting out of the train station we kept getting turned around and finally decided on a taxi instead of walking with our bags to the apartment. The taxi driver was very nice and definitely knew where to go. They don’t have Uber in Belgium yet but the taxi’s seem really good and not too expensive.
Surprising! Our AirBnB is in a great location and brand new inside! Only 2 nights but is will be very relaxing.
The view from our 2nd floor apartment
Antwerp is a beautiful city from what we can see. We are staying right on the market square and there is so many shops and restaurants and amazing architecture. Cobbled streets and beautiful churches. This is really nice.
Cathredral of Our Lady of Antwerp.
Sleeping child
This was so cool. A huge sculpture built right into the cobbled patio. It was so interesting that their was lots of tourists just standing there looking at it! Impressive.
Not all the architecture is MidEvil. The Museum aan de Stroom. This one was on our way to the port to take a cruise around the port.
Then we have the entrance to the port. We enjoyed a really nice ride around the port and saw lots of ships, big and small as well as lots of windmills. 
After our boat ride we decided to give the scooters a try. Paul downloaded the Byrd app and located 2 scooters. We keep seeing these in all sorts of places and really wanted to try them. It took us longer to locate 2, load the app to both our phones and then learn to make them go than we spent riding them. We rode them back to our apartment, about 2 miles. I think it costs $10. No one got hurt, no trips to emergency so it was a bunch of fun. I think they are definitely best for commuting so you know where to locate and where to go with it. We were just having fun.
We leave for Amsterdam in the morning but we will be back to Belgium after our Bike Barge trip