This is a bit of a catch-up post, written months after the actual trip in March but dated March so you would never know if I hadn't told you. (I offer a thousand grovelling apologies for my bad blogging). But I felt Rotterdam needed a mention because it's such a great little weekend break. The one thing I inexplicably took no photos of was the pancake boat - a boat tour along the river during which you can eat as many pancakes as humanly possible. I managed a disappointing three, but they were pretty big so that's more like six, if you ask me.
I also spent a day wandering around Maastricht before we headed to Rotterdam. Last time I was in Maastricht, it was on the
'Euro Man Voyage' in 2011
, staying on the Botel (boat hotel).
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| Only one reason I took this photo. A bit of cheap, smutty humour. |
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| Some of the sights around Maastricht |
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| Skeleton of massive dinosaur fish thing local to the region, back when they were roaming the earth. In Maastricht's very impressive Natural History Museum. Managed to blag a discount with my very old and tired looking student card. |
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| I might have been a couple of delicious Dutch beers into the evening when this photo was taken. |
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| Markthall in the centre of Rotterdam. Impressive from the outside... |
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| ... but even more impressive from the inside, with it's huge ceiling covered in food. Lots of stands selling all sorts of culinary delights. |
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| We were probably more entertained than we should have been - a coat rack that you operate with a pulley system in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (an art museum) |
