Rotterdam, Netherlands Travel Blogs

Rotterdam, still...
Jul 23, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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
Jul 22, 2008 (6 photos)

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
Jul 26, 2008 (2 photos)

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 wanted ...

Last Full Day In Rotterdam
Jul 26, 2008 (12 photos)

... 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)
Jul 24, 2008 (11 photos)

... 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... prise 2
Jun 17, 2007

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 personnes! ...

Rotterdam
Jun 16, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 beaucoup ...

Choose My Side
Sep 24, 2006 (7 photos)

... 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 ...

Rotterdam, Thursday
Jul 25, 2008 (18 photos)

... 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
Jul 26, 2008 (3 photos)

... - 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
Jul 20, 2008 (7 photos)

... 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 pin
Aug 11, 2007

rotterdam pin

Rotterdam, Day 2...
Jul 21, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Dans Filmpje!!
Aug 23, 2008

Hoi, hoi!! Het eindresultaat van acht maanden dansen!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRltcY1p7Ks Groetjes, Bart&Marjolein

Delft and back to check the Enchantments progress
May 22, 2005 (25 photos)

... 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 a ...

Dutch food
Jul 14, 2009

... 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 ...

Architectural Adventures
Aug 11, 2007

Entry to follow (I AM kind of travelling here, you know?). Thanks for your patience. Check back later!

Summer's best spent with good friends
Jul 16, 2005

... 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 little of ...

Rotterdam Rules
Mar 12, 2007

Got to be my favourite, only place I have been to that i can actually imagine living!

New Years in Rotterdam
Dec 30, 2003

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 ...

a CS evening in Rotterdam
Nov 28, 2009

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 ( ...

Rotterdam...yay day trip
May 27, 2004

Day trip to Rotterdam...didn't really do a whole lot just toured around and saw stuff...walked around and shopped ...and best of all ate

Great day today
Jul 15, 2009

... 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, Delft and Den Hagg
Sep 17, 2007 (6 photos)

Stayed in Rotterdam

Rotterdam
Mar 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 Seeds ...

Visiting Double Dutch
Oct 28, 2006

So Bec and I made it successfully to Rotterdam where Suus, my friend from Canada times, lives. We have been tasting dutch delicacies - dutch pankakes (Panenkoken), Sinterklass treats like peffernuiten (sorry about the spelling girls!) and of course ...

Voorbereidingen
Aug 20, 2007 (3 photos)

... Om de risico's om ziek te worden zoveel mogelijk te beperken hebben we een aantal inentingen gehaald bij de Travel Clinic in Rotterdam. Ferry had alle inentingen al gehaald omdat in 2006 al voor langere tijd naar Bolivia gegaan was voor stage. Het enige ...

Rotterdam
Jun 1, 2006

Rotterdam was a nice relaxing release after the whirlwind that was Amsterdam. It is the most industrialized town we have been in with large buildings and modern designs. The cool thing is that all the buildings Rem Koolhaus works(the same guy that did ...

Countdown
May 9, 2009 (1 photos)

Luckily my BF was able to retrieve the tickets, so we will be going after all!!

The Enchantment is cut in half!
May 25, 2005 (14 photos)

Early morning, we're back on the bus and headed to Rotterdam. We arrive, get off the bus and are hustled into the tent. It seems the shipyard doesn't want to give us clearance. We can't even walk two feet from the tent. Lisa is talking to someone. ...