This Sunday my boyfriend and I went to Technopolis in Mechelen for the first time (at leas for me). What was going to be a nice relaxing outing ended up feeling like a full on work out session!
We woke up at around noon since we knew it would take us at leas 1.5h of travel time and they closed at 5pm. We rode our electric bikes into the city which we usually do. My bike only had 33% left so I was trying my best to save as much as I could and it thankfully lasted the entire way in. Then we took the train to Mechelen. The last part was a 30 min walk, which was kind of nice since it was REALLY quite there. It almost felt like walking in a ghost city.
We arrived at Technopolis at around 2 pm which was perfectly according to plan. After putting our things away, we started exploring the place. They had a lot of fun things to try out which I really enjoyed. Even though it was all tailored towards kids, I had such a fun blast just checking everything out. There was everything from learning how sound waves and electrical current work to more physical activates such as running and climbing.
One of the activates was to test your speed against various animals. You select your anime such as; human, turtle, cheeta etc. I picked a snake and got ready for my sprint. I ran so fast that I wasn’t able to stop at the finish line and almost ran into the wall. Since I had to break so much, my toes were hurting for the rest of that day.
My favorite thing was one where you would have to lead a ring through a pipe thing without hitting the walls. I was doing so well until I flopped and got like 3 hits in. I ended with 5 in total. Nathan managed to do it with only 2 hits. My other favorite was one where you stood in front of a green background and then had a very strong shin on you for a second and could see your shadow being cast upon the wall as an after image.
Here are some photos of the things we did:
We were there for about 2h before we decided that we had seen it all. It was a warm walk back since the sun was still quite high on the sky. When we arrived back to Antwerpen we went to eat some delicious ramen and I ended up with a nice Tonkotsu ramen with pork and karage (fried chicken bites). Then it was the biking back.
I told you that I had enough battery for getting into the city, BUT I didn’t have enough for the back home. So I had to ride most of the distance in 2nd gear on an electric bike, which if you don’t know is a lot heavier to do compared to a normal bike, because of the battery inside.
When I got home I felt like I had done a whole workout session with the biking, walking, sprinting + other physical stuff that I did at Techno. My entire body felt so exhausted, so It was really nice just relaxing for the rest of the evening. Despite ended up feeling really tired, I still had an amazing and fun day. It was really nice to go out and do something and all the activates were really fun.
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