work out, some cooking & shopping, pretty much all the time busy!
But today's post is about last week when we visited Rotterdam & the weather
was still pretty cold so don't wonder if you see me wearing a coat & a beanie!
We have visited Holland before but Rotterdam was left out until last week!
Rotterdam because we were there just for a day & we wanted to get the most out
of it in these few hours we had available, as you can see in the pictures!
So out of the 10 things to do in Rotterdam according to TripAdvisor
we got to do only 6:
- Euromast Tower -
The Euromast was built in 1960 by architect H.A. Maaskant and contractor J.P. van
Eesteren, to mark the occasion of Floriade, the international flower and garden exhibition.
- Erasmus Bridge -
The Erasmus Bridge (Dutch: Erasmusbrug) is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge
in the centre of Rotterdam, connecting the north and south parts of this city, second
largest in the Netherlands. The bridge was named after Desiderius Erasmus a prominent
Christian renaissance humanist. The 802-metre-long (2,631 ft) bridge across the
New Meuse was designed by Ben van Berkel and completed in 1996. The cable-stayed
bridge section has a single 139-metre-high (456 ft) asymmetrical pale blue pylon
- DE Rotterdam -
De Rotterdam is a building on the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam, designed by
Rem Koolhaas in 1998. The complex is located between the KPN Tower and
Rotterdam Cruise Terminal and was finalized at the end of 2013. On 21 November 2013,
the municipality of Rotterdam, as the largest user, received the keys.
The design provides space for offices, a hotel and apartments. The 44 floors amount
to a total floor space area of about 160,000 m²,[1] making it the largest building
in the Netherlands.
- Wilhelminapier -
Wilhelminapier is a small peninsula, located at the south bank of the river Maas at
the foot of the Erasmus Bridge. One modern building after another has risen here since
the beginning of the new millennium and this makes Wilhelminapier the icon of
modern Rotterdam!
- New York Hotel -
The well-known Hotel New York can be found at the end of Wilhelminapier as well.
This hotel used to be the headquarters of the Holland America Line (HAL), but now
you can relax here at their outdoor terrace and enjoy the great view at the river Maas.
- Delfshaven -
located on a major river, so in 1389 a harbour was created about 10 km (6 mi) due
south of the city, to be able to receive seafaring vessels and avoid tolls being levied
by the neighbouring and competing city of Rotterdam. This settlement was named
Delfshaven ("Port of Delft").
Info sources:
www.cityguiderotterdam.com
www.wikipedia.com
www.tripadvisor.com
Rotterdam is just beautiful!
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