Once parked, we looked for a tourist information office to grab a city map and get more info about the bus that dives into the river. And we left (horrified if I may) upon discovering that it was €1 for the map and €19 for the bus tour. We walked around for a while and then we decided to go to the Maritien Museum, part of which is on an old warship. It turned out to be an interactive museum for kids (us) and we really liked it, helped by the fact that, due to a harbor festival, this and other museums were free (instead of €6.50).
4 September 2010
ROTTERDAM - Netherland
In addition to the pleasure of a hot shower, this trip gives us the chance to learn two fundamental facts:
- As soon as she has the opportunity (which means whenever she doesn't have to walk or ride a bike) Pollo falls asleep, managing to reach the record of 16 hours of sleep in a day. - The second astonishing discovery is that with a full stomach you can solve any problem, even the unsurmountable ones.
After yesterday's dinner we decide to leave the tent set up in the Delft's campsite/farm and move to discover the nearby cities. After Den Haag, today is Rotterdam’s turn, one of the largest ports in the world.
NOTES
I imagined a city with more canals, actually it's a very busy metropolis with super-high parking fees (15 minutes for 50 cents)
We also wanted to visit the church where there is the statue of Erasmus (who is he? What did he do? Yes, we’re ignorant, we know), but it was closed for maintenance.Â
Thanks to this festival, though, there was an exhibition of the navy with ships, torpedo boats and so on.
HOEK VON HOLLAND
Back to the car (€16 for parking, we had a heart attack), we went to Hoek Von Holland and saw the locks on the Atlantic. We knew they were big, but they're really huge.
After a dinner at the ``café de midi`` where Bruttone got drunk, we went back to the campsite to discover that someone put their tent attached to ours. He also started a conversation with me, while Bruttone was doing what? He was evacuating bowels in the bathroom. In my face! I have been constipated for two days.``
