Antwerpen to Dover - Belgium to England - 2.5.1970

We have no photos of ours to show but I did Grab a few from Google.  Above is our route from Antwerp.  We have no recollection of Brussels, I know we were over Museums, Cathedrals, pretty countrysides, cows and everything else, we had come to the end of our money, we'd only had 8 showers in 7 weeks, we were tired, hungry and ready to be welcomed into the home of our Pommy Family back in Guildford.  We were exhausted so it wasn't a good time to visit Brussels, we have no photos, no memories and no brochures so show.   I do remember that after we left Antwerp we drove back into The Netherlands because Diesel was cheaper than in Belgium and we made it back to the UK on that last fill in Holland.

 One of Today's photos from Google about to leave for Ramsgate, I notice that Ferry's no longer travel from Ostend to Dover as we did back in 1970, they only go to Ramsgate which is north of Dover.

 I know we aren't British but even to Aussies those wonderful White Cliffs of Dover stir something in our hearts :-)

As we were waiting in line to get through Customs we noticed a West German car ahead of us with the Registration number plate FU * CK 123, see example below.  The FU stood for the town of Furth, in Bavaria, the CK 123 were the registration numbers.  We chuckled and wondered how long it was before someone in Britain pointed out what their car was telling people... we would have loved to follow along behind :-)

 A ferry coming into Dover from the Cliffs above.

From Dover to Guildford and the home of our wonderful Pommy Family... the Waughs!

Antwerpen - Belgium - 30.4.1970

 A couple of brochures we kept with the Museums we visited marked inside.

 Museum Mayer van den Bergh is one mans collection, I especially loved Pieter Bruegel the Elder's paintings, fascinating pictures with so much going on you can stand there for ages seeing new things in each one.

 Ruben's House.  I remember feeling very comfortable around the many many paintings of Peter Paul Ruben's well developed women  :-)

 Museum of Plantin-Moretus and Print Room.    Some wonderful old classics in this Museum.

Museum Brouwershuis (Brewers House)   I don't remember this one, beer was David's thing.  This Museum is closed at the moment.

I notice in David's writing that the Museum's we visited were free, I guess they had to be free for us to afford to visit them but now I see you can pay 3 Euros for entry.

Antwerpen - Belgium - 30.4.1970

 A Google Grab of the Koninklijk Museum in Antwerpen.


We'd stopped taking photos by now, we probably ran out of both film and money so we have no photos of our three days in Belgium but we did keep a couple of brochures from the 5 Museums we visited.

 The Koninklijk Museum had a some wonderful Flemish paintings as well as other European artists.

Google Map from Leiben in The Netherlands to Antwerpen in Belgium.