Sunday, September 24, 2006

rotterdam

whoops, forgot about this one. in chronological order, this came after Utrecht... no offence, rotterdam.

I’d read that Rotterdam was the only city in the Netherlands that doesn’t have a declining population of ‘young’ people, so was pretty keen to go take a look. When we arrived into our hostel the bar was full of old Dutch people having a birthday party for Jojo – they were all wearing red handkerchiefs and angel wings…



This is a bad pic but the woman dancing in the background had a dress with sunflowers sewn all over it – bridget you would have loved it!

The rooms at the hostel were themed, ours was the ‘Festival’ room. We left and stumbled across – yes you guessed it – a Festival. Hmmm. A whole street had been blocked off and completely covered in pink dots – walls, ground, windows – everything…



Wandered about the city, discovered the port area with a huge ocean liner berthed there.



Check out these lights – looks as though they were moveable.



Settled in at a canalside bar for a few drinks – this was their mascot (it was motorised, the jaw and tongue moved!)



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