This is the biggest marketplace in Belgium. Making my way towards the marketplace of Sint-Niklaas, I passed the Sacramentstraat and the Apostelplein, taking me back 25-30 years… Here I have passed many great moments as a teenager… spending lunch hour in the youth club during my last year in high school, enjoying an after-school drink on Friday afternoon, going to my first school dance,… it was a bit of a trip down memory lane 🙂 It is such a pity how this beautiful complex is deteriorating… the city should definitely do some efforts here to renovate this 19th century building! In the Zamanstraat there are several buildings from the early twentieth century with Art Nouveau details and the castle ‘ Alfons Janssens-De Schrijver‘ is also situated in this street. The welcoming entrance hall of the interior design shop of Bjorn Vaes Definitely a must visit when you’re in the neighbourhood… I was so tempted to buy like everything in this shop!! I strolled towards the Regentieplein, which is surrounded by a couple of fine buildings, like the one in which interior designer Bjorn Vaes has his shop with lots of beautiful, rural furniture and decorations. In this street you can spot several beautifully renovated buildings with Art Nouveau features like balconies, pillars, stained glass and ceramics on the facade. I offered to give them a ride and wait for them for the film to finish, which gave me a couple of hours to stroll around in the city centre and visit things which I hadn’t seen for half a lifetime!Īfter dropping off my son and nephew at the cinema (may the force be with them!), I walked past the train station and headed towards the Prins Albertstraat. But as I moved town after I married, nearly 22 years ago, I visited Sint-Niklaas less and less and the past few years I only go to Sint-Niklaas to go to the hair dresser’s, the cinema or to go to the Waasland Shopping Center.īut this past weekend my son and nephew went to the cinema in Sint-Niklaas. I used to live in a suburb of Sint-Niklaas and I went to school in this city for 10 years so I know the city centre quite well. This weekend I visited Sint-Niklaas, a city in Oost-Vlaanderen.
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