Rotterdam
Travel Blogs from Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam, still...
... get competence in all fields. The Germans had already eaten as the parents of one of them had made a whirlwind trip to Rotterdam from Amsterdam where they were on holiday. They came with me to Bazar though, a rather trendy nightspot and eatery. Nice ...
Back in Rotterdam
Back from The Hague just in time for the written part of the Esperanto exam... Who'd have thought I'd be in Rotterdam doing an exam. A spur of the moment thing. Not sure how smoothly it will go considering you're also supposed to know something ...
Zamenhof
I decided that these photos deserve their own entry; the reason being that the fellow in the photo is none other than Zaleski-Zamenhof, the grandson of the founder of Esperanto. He seems to like the t-shirt. I forgot to ask him whether he ...
Last Full Day In Rotterdam
... Papiamento names and I was able to buy a Surinaam t-shirt, I'd have to presume that the black population comes from the Netherlands Antilles and Surinaam. The food was great despite having to eat standing up at the stall. It was pork with potatoes and ...
Rotterdam (Excursion Day)
... of the harbour. Here's a rather cute little train that we saw by the harbour. It looks like it's still in service. Rotterdam is the busiest port in Europe, one of the busiest in the world so there's always going to be something interesting going on ...
Rotterdam, Thursday
... Dutch spelling on the sign. My name might have had to have a couple of those 'oe's in it if I'd been born in the Netherlands. In my walk from the embassy back to the railway station I seemed to have managed to fit in a fair bit of sight-seeing... ...
Bus To Hungary
... - as the crow flies and our speed has maxed out at 80 km/hour so this is going to take a while. I enjoyed the UK and Rotterdam. It would have been nice to explore the neighbouring towns a bit though. I was surprised to get to speak Dutch so much. I ...
Interkona Vespero
... scene at the interkona vespero. Actually it doesn't give the right impression of how busy things were at the individual booths. Rotterdam's a pretty modern looking city with almost no old buildings - at least in the centre. On the other hand it is a ...
Rotterdam, Day 2...
... a bit of confusion over the fact that I don't have a congress number but sensibly they're letting me sit the exam nevertheless. Rotterdam seems to have a lot of statues like this one... We were tempted to put one of my mi long penis t-shirts on this ...
Choose My Side
... because the city was utterly destroyed by the Germans in World War II. Many cities were devastated during the war -- Rotterdam was destroyed (it's interesting, many Europeans consider Rotterdam 'ugly' because of all the modern architecture. Many of these ...
More Bosch's
... have seen a few of his paintings but there was one city I had been to, but not to see his paintings, so I booked the train, Rotterdam was going to be my destination Saturday - GPS link Jumping on the train, I hit the road towards Holland. I had been once ...
Rotterdam... prise 2
Allo! Toutes les auberges sont pleines a Amsterdam alors je reste une journee de plus a Rotterdam. Il pleut toujours ici c'est fou! Nuages, pluie, un peu de soleil et quelque chose comme 22 degres seulement. Je dorts dans un dortoir de 10 ...
Rotterdam
... ! Je suis a Rotterdam. Mon auberge est tres sympa, tres propre et tres bien situee. J ai appris que la ville de Rotterdam avait ete completement detruite pendant la 2ieme guerre et meme aujourdhui la re-construction continue. Donc a premiere vue c est ...
We seemed to have reached the final curtain...
The ferry leaves tomorrow. It's time to hang up our crocs and close the now dog eared European road atlas for the last time. The rhine is getting wider and the van's smoke thicker. It may sound too like an award ceremony or wedding speech but I ...
A Place To Hide Your Cranes
... no lies – distances are not a constant thing here. And it is Monday, which means all museums and galleries are closed in Netherlands. I wonder what all the workers do on their day off, whether they all meet up and play paintball or trade stories of ...
Delft and back to check the Enchantments progress
... and a drink, and continue walking up a canal. We're told "old Delft" is just up the street. Unlike Rotterdam with it's new modern buildings, Delft seems to be left out of the "contemporary" world. Which keeps this beautiful town ...
Dutch food
... of Rotterdam, I was too lazy after my big bike ride. There are two important things I want to mention about my stay in Rotterdam: 1) I stayed in a hostel for only 10 Euro a night. It was a giant room containing 100 bunk beds. There were no sheets, just ...
Back where it all started!
Hi, We had a great first day,Picked up from the airport by Yolanda Nooteboom,(Aunt of Carlijn). and where also welcomed by Willie & Frans, what a nice surprise. we spend our 1st day with Henny & John, we are going to have great ...
Architectural Adventures
Entry to follow (I AM kind of travelling here, you know?). Thanks for your patience. Check back ...
Time for some R&R
... , Venice, Tuscany, Rome, Naples, Barcelona, Zaragoza and Madrid, we were definitely in need of some R&R. We stayed in Rotterdam with Sarina's stepdad Aad, who took great care of us, and thanks to his outstanding culinary skills we were spoiled with ...
The Netherlands: Part IV
Rotterdam is a city and municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland, situated in the west of the Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the country, with a population of 603,425 as of March 2010. The greater Rotterdam area, best ...
Summer's best spent with good friends
... refreshing time and in ways reminded me of summers back in Madison. Well, minus the Johnsonville brats and sweltering humidity. :) Rotterdam, Holland's second largest city to the south of Amsterdam, was also of interest to me since I had seen ...
New Years in Rotterdam
New Years Eve in Rotterdam. There wasn't any snow, but it was cold. We got a nice little hotel room, for rather cheap, and went out for dinners to save money rather than eating at the hotel. After figuring out how to use the train and how to buy the ...
The Nether Regions Part II
... and Myrthe for the time being and went to pick Hollie up from the airport. By the time we got to the hotel in Rotterdam (Amsterdam accommodation being ridiculously priced over Easter weekend) we didn't have a whole lot of time to do anything but have a ...
a CS evening in Rotterdam
So I had a nice couple of days in Lille, where I had the chance to spend some time with my Peruvian friend Monica, who I had met in Lima during some volunteering stuff. I saw some pretty cool stuff in Lille, most notably the Museum of Beaux Arts ...
Great day today
... city really has an appeal to me. However, after a wonderful lunch of turkey, gravy, and rice, we were off to Rotterdam where we will e for the next two nights. Our hotel is wonderful here and the students seemed to enjoy their time ...
Rotterdam
... over to the Bergweg and catch the No. 4 for Nieuwe Binneweg, my first stop ever in the Netherlands and home of some of my favorite spots in Rotterdam: Rotown, the Emma Hotel, the Laughing Pope dope store, the Wester Pavilioen café, the original Sensi ...


