Rubens’ House and the Royal Museum (KMSKA) by Sadie Valeri
Did you know that you can get from Paris to Antwerp by train in just two hours? I didn’t! It was so easy that my husband Nowell and I added it as a stop on our recent trip to Paris, The Hague, Amsterdam, and Vienna, and I’m so glad we did!
View of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Antwerp from Groenplaats square. The statue in the middle is Rubens
We were originally planning to fly from Paris to Amsterdam, and while researching flights I discovered that the train is much faster, cheaper, and also easier (because trains take you right from city center to city center, instead of airports on the periphery). Then I realized that our train to the Netherlands would pass right through Antwerp, Belgium, which was the home of my all-time favorite painter RUBENS, so we decided to make a quick stop there.
While researching