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Old 02-July-2007, 10:35 PM
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I couldn't handle it unless your current boyfriend wasn't in the military

Seriously though, for 5 years my SO has been living at a distance that allowed us to only see each other in the weekends, and I'm quite tired of that. Working on the problem though, in a few months time I'm moving!

I can only praise myself lucky there's fully open borders and the same currency now, so moving across the border is no different than traveling inside the country. But still, it's time I have 1 living place instead of 3. I go across the border like some people go to the mall .

edit: erm just how far off topic are we!

To get this back on topic: traveling that much means that I visit the earlier mentioned Antwerp Central Station twice a week on average. There you have it, back to a minor Wonder of the World.

I hope they'll put some good pics online when it's completely finished. On one hand you've got the old station which is very impressive. It used to have more metal ornaments on the main train hall than nowadays and two clock towers, but other than that it's still in original condition, and the access bridge including all towers is being completely renovated. On the other hand you've got a new section involving 3 underground levels, two of which have train platforms (seeing large trains at 3 levels on top of each other is impressive!). And all that in a visually stunning way: you can see from the bottom of the lowest level train platforms upto the top of the "cathedral" hangar, and the internal facade of the station building.

Even the original (over 100 years old IIRC) bumpers at the end of the top level platforms are a mini wonder. They're huge bumpers with hydraulic dampers, massively strong and extremely well anchored into the floor, and their purpose is to slow down and preferably stop a train that would enter the station and not break enough. Because if that happens on the top level and the train isn't stopped, it goes straight inside the main station building and with enough speed, may end up in front of the entrance of the Zoo ; .
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