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Rotterdam
Travel Blogs from Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam
We decided to go to Rotterdam because we were told that it is similar to Amsterdam, but better. So firstly we hit up a bar that we read about in our travel guide book. The special part about the bar was that it sold over 200 different kinds of beer. The ...
Stad Zonder Hart
... Erasmusbrug (Erasmus Bridge), Kubuswoningen (Cube Houses), and Maastoren (the tallest building in the Netherlands) are just some of the notable new additions to Rotterdam. Though Rotterdam does lack of the typical Dutch charm of most of traditional ...
Rotterdam
... to comfort us : ) we got a lift with a wholesale flower driver called Kriss. We got in with him and he drove us all to Rotterdam in one ride. I should add riding in a truck is alot better imho then a car, we had a small bed we sat on in the ...
Cold Turkey in Rotterdam
... year High Times would install me as High Priest of the 1998 Cannabis Cup and introduce me to my love affair with Amsterdam, but Rotterdam still has a very special place in my heart for being the place where I first landed in Holland. For the past few ...
moving on down the line......
... my bags, got my butt to the designated metro stop where I was to meet my ride and head back to Germany. Thank you Netherlands for the parties, the good memories, and even better friends. Off we go again....Sorry for the lack of pictures ...
Tour of Rotterdam
... probably the maritime museum and harbour museum. Not enough time to spend in the art museum etcetera. Photographs of the nice parts of Rotterdam appear to have vanished . . . will fill them in later! Ah, here they are . . Photoshop thinks it's ...
Rotterdam
This city is very interesting becuase it is all brand new. It was heavely bombed during WWII so everything had to be rebuilt. We found a great Ship museum which I would highly recomend ...
Back home in the Netherlands
... really liked Brussels actually! I was a great time there, but we have to get back. We caught the 12:50pm train back to Rotterdam! It was a great feeling to be back in a country were I understood the language again. We made it to the metro to Caplesburgh, ...
Across the Dutch Waterways
... ' position. I didn't get it exactly because it's pretty hard to be uncool when your me. What was uncool though was riding into Rotterdam at about 9PM. Finding myself right in the middle of the city by 10. It's gottendam dark and i got no map of the ...
![[Let's go watch some tonsil hockey], Rotterdam, Netherlands travel blog](http://images.travelpod.com/users/twilightmist/thumbnail.wimg.europalicious03.lagrandplace3.jpg "[Let's go watch some tonsil hockey], Rotterdam, Netherlands travel blog")
[Let's go watch some tonsil hockey]
... snug bed. We stopped for a quick dinner at a nice restaurant first, however, and then finally headed to our hotel in Rotterdam. We stayed at the Carlton Oasis Hotel, which was a pleasant welcome to a long, but utterly delightful day. I finally zonked ...
heading into fall Aug 24 - 27
... psychiatrist's door or a prison door. - went to the Palmboom museum (all kinds of industrial history of Delft, Rotterdam, teas, coffees, windmills, pottery, tiles, it was really amazing http://www.dedubbeldepalmboom.nl/index.html). The brochure was ...
the netherlands
So i've left london and have ventured out to the netherlands. It was a beautiful place where i got very ...
Exploring Rotterdam
... In 1572 the church became a place for Protestant worship. On May 14, 1940 it was badly damaged during the bombardment on Rotterdam. In 1947 restoration was started with laying of the foundation stone in May 1952. The church tower is owned by the city ...
DAMN, Rotterdam
... released so he could return home to Stockholm. He was in Jail for 6 months for smuggling huge amounts of Cocaine over the Netherlands Border. He was caught and sentenced to 6 months. He told me that I was his first real conversation since he got out ...
fast train to Rotterdam
The train was fairly speedy from Amsterdam and I arrived about 10pm. Was welcomed again with a beer by Grada. Met Nora again and Hans, their brother who lives in Milan. Bed relatively ...
Church, Delfthaven, meeting Elizabeth in Den Haag
... subjects we did not, kings were there galore (amongst others: King William III of England who was also Stadhouder of the Netherlands) and there were falcons (white, which rights who had to catch them where (that was twin talking of course, in connection ...
Bus, train and boat to Holland
... prayed for anything it was not quite as successful. She took me to the bus about 9:30 and I started my journey towards Rotterdam. The bus was badly delayed leaving Oxford due to road works; however, fortunately I had left lots of time. Discovered ...
Holland's Port...Rotterdam
SO ...the ferry brought us from England to The Netherlands..Also called the Venice of the North....Believe it or not...Rotterdam is one of the biggest ports of the ...
Stillman Theater: Rotterdam Street Festival
The 2005 Rotterdam Street Festival was a personal highlight for me because it was the first time I performed in front of a stadium audience. I had previously been part of the official festival opening, standing in the background while a well-known Dutch ...
Classy Rotterdam, Market, the Poldaar, windmills
... house from 1746 called Het Huys Ten. Donck. A web site says: "The 'House on the Mound' on the outskirts of Rotterdam illustrates the elegant way of life of the urban mercantile aristocracy in the mid-18th century. The red-brick mansion stands behind a ...
Rotterdam
... as historical because the town was virtually destroyed in WWII. They got royally screwed over by the Germans, who threatened Rotterdam with annihilation if the Dutch didn't surrender. So they surrendered. And the Germans bombed them anyways. . . So ...
Get me out of Amsterdam!
... and I would recommend it. Before I left to head to Maastricht, I visited the Kinderdijk Windmill's - the famous windmills of the Netherlands!! They were quite cool, I'm not going to lie. However, only the one night in Rotterdam then it was off to southern ...
North Sea Jazz
After 11 hours on the train i arrived in Rotterdam for three crazy days of jazz festival. Front row at Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Sergio Mendes, randy brecker, Branford Marsalis and so many more... I've never had so much awesome music in one ...
Rotterdam
Holy crap people. My quads are still aching from two days of intense traveling. The second day was spent running after trains and buses. We ended up missing the train twice and a bus once despite our incessant running. After a about an hour of ...