The Wrong Side of my Car

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8 Dec 2025

A stroll on Hobson Street, in 2025

A recurring theme around here is walking in places where you’d not normally walk as a tourist, and today we revisit Hobson Street, which is basically the origin story of this blog.

It is always interesting to see if anything changed. Is it still all just parking? Well it is not Antwerpen so it must be, right?

First, Vogel lane, which we visited back in 2018.

Uh, well, the parking lot degraded a bit — contrary to popular belief parking is not cheap, and I suspect many commercial body corporates are painfully aware of that.

But if we keep walking on Hobson Street we do find a change.

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