liking it so far but very annoying SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

You should. It's my favourite city by a long shot. I've lived there for over seven years and it's one I would love to return to one day again.

There are some other great European cities but Antwerpen is simply superb; it has great history and culture and as a small cosmopolitian city it simply cannot be beat.

I've lived in the Diamond District and in the heart of the old town right on the medieval high street and also on the 'Left Bank'.

Do go and do spend lots of time wandering around; it's got a vibe of its own. And don't forget to bring a spare liver: the beers there are world class (that is one thing that Belgium does exceedingly well at) and the food is good there too.

If you're interested in art to any degree then pop into the museum in the South (just on the other side of the tropical disease institute) and you'll be amazed at the number of Old Master painters whom you may have thought were Dutch but were acually from Antwerpen itself.

Not only does it have history, the culture there is also forward looking too. It may be the second city in Belgium but it far surpasses Brussels and, in my opinion, it's a better place to visit than Ghent or Bruges (though both are very good).

Go there, spend a week and enjoy yourself. You won't regret it. I have a chum who went there in 1983 for three days. Over thirty years later he's still there...

The location of the hospital doesn't bother me. What did make me laugh though is how the convenience store family didn't have any security: they allowed that bum to walk into the joint three times with the intention of stealing supplies. Then two other low lifes were able to waltz in there too with a machine gun.

You find the location of the hospital odd, but there is a historical reason.

It's not just a medical hospital that treats STD's and other infectious diseases, it's also an scientific institute where all kinds of tropical diseases are researched (it's quite renowned for its science department).

You may or may not know that before 1960 the Congo ("the tropics") used to be a colony of Belgium, and most ships that went over there departed from the city of Antwerp over the river the Schelde.

They docked in docks that don't exist anymore today (they've been filled up in the sixties to create a parking lot and public space)

The hospital is located close to where the docks used to be : when the ships came back from the Congo, the sailors or passengers who brought back tropical diseases (as they often did) could be checked into the hospital right away after docking (so they didn't have to mix too much with the local population : straight from the boat to the hospital)

Also : in those days, the city wasn't as big as it is today, and the location of the hospital was not in the center but more on the outskirts of the city...

Hope this satisfies you curiosity somewhat...