Jack here! It was another 3-day weekend here on account of the pentecost. Unfortunately I ended up having to work through almost the entire thing. I finished my project today at about 1:30 so I had to cram an entire weekend into one afternoon.

We went on a excursion to go look for a place called "Tour and Taxis" which was supposed to be an old railway depot that has been fixed up into shops and restaurants and such. After briefly getting side-tracked by a giant (but kinda boring) basillica and wandering around awhile we eventually came to the place. At first it seemed completely abandoned except for a small circus school housed in one corner. But after we walked and walked and walked around the perimeter of the place we eventually came to the part that had been fixed up and we able to actually get inside. It WAS kind of nice inside, but it seemed to be mostly just offices in the one fixed up building and it was pretty much deserted since it was a holiday. But we had a good time exploring around the grounds and looking at a bunch of burned out industrial wasteland kind of stuff. S. came up with an excellent plan to squat there.

We walked back through the center of town and had an early dinner at a really cool beer-themed restaurant called In T' Spinnekopke (or something like that). All of the dishes we ordered featured beer in some fashion. As you can see in the picture I dined between two duelling mannequin pis's. Our waiter spoke pretty good English-which was a huge plus. We let him pick out our beers for us. ("Do you trust me? Okay. You're dead!") I can highly recommend the Nostradamus, if you ever get the chance.

--Jack