(2024-04/05-30/02) From one European Capital of Culture to the next one, from Antwerp (1993) to Lille (2004). Here, old and new stand side by side. The historic old town and modern architecture coexist peacefully. In 2020, Lille was World Design Capital and is the city with the relatively highest proportion of students in the population - around forty percent, depending on how you count. Where better to see this than in the multicultural district of Wazemmes during the International Soup Festival LA LOUCHE
They moved to Great Britain in the 1930s, just in time to escape the Holocaust and Second World War. Not so my uncle Maximilian Hauster, a great-grandson of Abraham. He was arrested in Brussels in 1942, spent almost a year and a half in the Fort Breendonk Concentration Camp before being deported via the SS Transit Camp Mechelen to Auschwitz on 14.01.1943 and murdered there.
Fort Breendonk can be reached by motorcycle, but Antwerp is best explored by bike, for example deep under the Scheldt, through the heritage-protected Sint-Anna Tunnel.