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Rotterdam Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rotterdam, Netherlands
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 ...
Rotterdam - end of cruise!
... everything! The cruise was great (a few minor issues but then nothing’s perfect) and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Rotterdam felt very cold (it was around 5-6C we think) but we weren’t there long. We travelled by ...
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 ...
Rotterdam...yay day trip
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 ...
Rotterdam
... hostel which rented bicycles. Having been a little intimidated by the amount of bike traffic in Amsterdam, we were pleased that Rotterdam seemed a little more sedate and jumped on our two wheelers with child-like glee. It turned out relearning to ride ...
Rotterdam or anywhere...
... us to ride a double decker train, something we had all looked forward to the whole trip. Like Frankfurt is to Germany, Rotterdam is the financial capital of Holland and as such has many high rise office blocks and skyscrapers. From the station we ...
Night out
... go that night, and said she may meet up again depending what time she finished work. She had lots of stuff to tell us about Netherlands, as she was from the south. That night, we met up with Laura, who is a couchsurfer whos also a student. We met her ...
Modern, sleek Rotterdam!
... see the city. It was admittedly very nice, and a gorgeous day, but by 1:00 pm, we were gone! We came yesterday to Rotterdam, in The Netherlands. As fate would have it, we ran into none other than Ken again on the street, who spent the rest of the day ...
How do you live in a cube house?
... surprise considering where we are from. We found one called "bob marleys". It was a good choice for out first experience in the Netherlands. It was a great time of chilling out and having a smoke. After being thourally wrecked it was time to go back to ...
Rotterdam Carnival
my husband and I went to Amsterdam for a weekend break. While there we found out about the Rotterdam Canival (Zomercarnival) and decided to check it ...
Rotterdam Holland
We rented a cabin in Rotterdam at a government protected park. Tents, campers and cabins, clean bathrooms with showers, a laundromat and wifi is available. For a two night stay with wifi, it cost us 154 euros and it was a short walk to ...
'n Rot in Rotetrdam ?
... my very loving host mother. We had a Dutch kroket and shocomel from the selfsevise resturant.It was about a hours drive to Rotterdam. With all the exitement I almost frogot about the cadautjes i had brought with from the warm and sunny cape town ( babs ...
Short update
Hey guys... I know I'm really slacking with this updating business but internet is pretty expensive here - just like everything else. Still alive though and will post when I get a chance again...Amsterdam was a bit of a bust, only okay. ...
A reason to learn Esperanto
... 's not really worth it. There wasn't much else going on down at the harbour, just like the rest of Rotterdam. I checked out the Cube Houses - cool, but I'm sure the novelty of living there wears off quickly. I wandered ...
Rotterdam Recap
... guide it was also really interesting since it talked about the history of the art work and other relevant background information. Rotterdam is also known for its kind of off the wall architecture. It is a mixture of typical North American ...
