Girls and their toys

This week I took an afternoon off for a shopping trip to Antwerp. The first place we ended up in was In den Olifant, the most magical toy shop I've ever seen. We went around the beautiful old house, shrieking with delight at each new discovery.

Isn't this chicken fantastic?

Or do you like this one better?

This was my absolute favourite cuddly toy

Great puppets for playing puppet theatre

and beautiful Pinocchios

a balloon to fly away in


The duck was chosen as a present for a niece

and look at all this miniature cooking gear



After this some more shopping was accomplished, useful as well as frivolous.

And then we went to check out the recently renovated Stadsfeestzaal.
We were impressed.

Fancy champagne bar, high up above

but we chose the ground floor


for our aperitif



For dinner we returned to an old favourite, where we hadn't been in a long time: pizzeria Arte.




This is what happens when you go out for dinner with a fellow blogger


we didn't resist dessert

The food was as good as we remembered, with very pure flavours, we enjoyed the cosy atmosphere and the beautiful interior design, and we thought about the lyrics of Les Feuilles Mortes by Jacques Prévert written on the wall.