I had the wonderful opportunity to ride out to Antwerp, Belgium with my Dutch friend Diana, where I met her twin sister, Sandra, for dinner. Afterwards, we went to the theatre to see a movie. While getting our tickets, we ran into one of the girls' best friends from the Netherlands and another friend of hers! It turned out they were all going to see the same movie we were, so we grew to a group of five and had a lovely evening watching a good movie, enjoying some time together afterwards, and then home again to Genval, with Diana!
Antwerp is in the northeastern part of Belgium and is primarily Flemish speaking. It was quite the experience to be surrounded by people speaking Flemish/Dutch (made me miss and realize how "comfortable" I've gotten around the French speakers! ;-), and the movie was great fun; in English, but with French and Dutch subtitles, and the commercials beforehand were all in Flemish! The girls all spoke varying levels of English... and spoke Dutch fluently.
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