Antwerp
Antwerp had been sold to me as a hip, stylish happening style capital. My guidebook had even mentioned something about "fashionistas" and, while I'm not especially fashionable myself, I do enjoy observing the breed from afar. So, confidently expecting cutting-edge glamour, half-naked leggy supermodels and an all-pervading feeling of rampant Vogue-ishness, off I went by train to Antwerp.