Rotterdam

We slept in again today. We missed our free breakfast. So we headed to Markthall which is an enormous indoor farmers market and food hall. It was built in 2014 because the EU threatened to make selling fruits and vegetables in an open air space illegal. We found some spicy Asian noodles to eat, sweated profusely due to the humid, standing air, then got out of there.

We strolled around Rotterdam without aim, but we saw the famous cube houses, the White House, the Erasmus bridge, the port, the old harbor, lots of boats, and many other architectural oddities.

We found several fantastic pubs with some great beer, had a pile of delicious shawarma for dinner, and found ourselves drinking Heineken and dancing with an oversized pikachu to end the night.

The next morning we forced ourselves to get up for breakfast; I mostly just looked at mine and sipped cheap automatic machine espresso. After some showers and another slow start, we got out and about.

We rented bikes from a nearby shop and started cycling around town in search of a grocery store. Once found, paninis were in had along with water and snacks for the rest of our day. We brought our bikes on the waterbus and rode up the river towards Kinderdijk.

Kinderdijk is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is an area of reclaimed land made possible by 19 windmills built in the 18C. Wind power was harnessed and used to pump water out of patches of land so it could be used for living or farming. We cycled around this picturesque area for about 3 hours and making way too many pictures.

My Dutch-Canadian ass started to show its inexperience at this point.

We couldn't decide on dinner so we went back to the Markthall because it had a ton of options. After some brief and totally atypical rude treatment by a Dutch waitress in a Greek restaurant, we settled on a different Greek ish place.