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Rotterdam Slideshow
Rotterdam
Travel Blogs from Rotterdam, Netherlands
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
Rotterdam is dirty, but very cool
We were only in Rotterdam for 2 hours and 30 minutes...which was sad because it had some really neat bridges and buildings. I got to explore the cube houses though and draw those for a little while. Yep...and eat ice ...
RotterdaM
Today, i took the train to Rotterdam Central where i met with Sas and Tara, we went to a music festival which was real comedy music, in one of the squares which was an experience on its own. Next we walked through an ...
Rotterdam
... us with a ‘spare’ Belgian pilot who had guided us out of the port and was now enjoying a free ride to Rotterdam!) A bright blue sky greeted Saturday morning, filled with sunshine and although bitterly cold in the wind, it was warm out ...
Queen Beatrix was here!
Today was the inauguration of the Holland America ship MS Eurodam. It was a day of festivities from morning to night. It was quite a spectacular! The ceremonies were full of pomp. It was very fun! Queen Beatix blessed the ...
Rotterdam
... brussels and home, i decided its easier for me to fly. but dave got his bus to brussels sorted. went to the euro tower in rotterdam,and it was really really good,its a rotating tower, which you can see the whiole city and it gives you info on everything, ...
Tour De France Start
... to write about the Tour de France start as it is nearing the end, anyway here go's. So The Tour de France started in Rotterdam today in the afternoon and it was BIG, first the Caravan comes through hours before the event and every one is trying to get ...
Rotterdam
We were only in Rotterdam for a day. We visited the Museum of Contemporary Art as well as exploring the city centre. ...
Six days left
Being in London for a long weekend made me realize how much fun it is to make a completely different and foreign city your own spiel to it. I absolutely cannot wait for my next destination. In less than a week, I'll become a foreign resident in the ...
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
We took a quick day trip to Rotterdam. Rotterdam is in the south of the Netherlands, and is known as a working city (as opposed to Amsterdam, which is the playing city). The old phrase is that money is made in Rotterdam, taxed in the Hague (seat of ...
FOOTLOOSE AND FANCY-FREE
... seemed like a long time for a place largely by-passed by tourists and tour groups. We were pleasantly surprised to find that Rotterdam is a progressive people-oriented city full of interesting things to see and do. It also happens to be a major world ...
Not the nicest of cities
Rotterdam didn't really do much for us. Everything wasn't were the map said it would be. Had a little bit of culture but not much. Very disappointing city in the ...