Arise Artful Antwerp
Originally published in The Sydney Morning HeraldExcerpt
The bells are ringing in Antwerp. Dong. Dong. Dong.
The clanging melody peals from belfry to cobblestones, gathers speed along the rows of ornate guild-houses, hurtles giddily towards a miraculous happening. Antwerp has been waiting for this moment for more than a decade. And nothing, not even the rain that's pelting down like Belgian bullets, will stem the tide of citizens flowing towards boulevard Leopold de Waelplaats …