Day 12. I learned how early places close compared to America. At a local food court in Rotterdam, they close at 8pm but here in the Netherlands that means they close BY 8pm they stopped serving food at 7:45. In America typically they would stop serving food at 8 and be open until people leave.
Month: May 2025
Dominic Fisher day 11 5.21.25
We started off our day with a boat tour of the port. This included the residence areas and the industrial port. While we did a bike tour similar this boat view let us see and learn things that were not possible from land. It was cool seeing the cargo port in action. We then went [...]
Day 11, May 21 – Dennis Browning
We gathered a little later today for a boat tour of the port in Rotterdam. It was interesting to see all the boats gathered so tightly together, and it makes me wonder how frequently they have miscommunications that put one boat at risk of collision with another boat. The machinery was interesting to see at [...]
5/21/2025 – Maddie Little
The boat tour of Rotterdam was a great experience. It was cool to see the cranes moving the shipping containers in action and from the point of view of the water.
05/21/25 – Lewis Turley
As our trip comes to a close our itinerary gives us some more breathing room throughout the day. Yesterday we went on a boat tour of the port once again seeing Rotterdams industry from a new perspective. We then checked out a rooftop park which I have never seen before and spent the rest of [...]
Wednesday May 21 – Colin Broderick
Today we got on a tour boat and took a 2-hour tour of the Rotterdam Port. It was great to see a new perspective of the port, after seeing the port on a bike. It was cool to be able to see the ships perspective of the port as well as the industrial side of [...]
Day 11 – Cole Nichols
Today we went on boat tour through one of the largest ports in Europe. We passed through some of their amazingly unique architecture and saw where they unload and load sea shipments coming in and out of Rotterdam. All though it was a little chilly on the boat it was definitely one of my favorite [...]
05/21/2025 – David Gwinn
Today we took a boat tour to the ports of Rotterdam. It was interesting to see all of the cranes that carry the shipping containers onto the boats to export products across the ocean. Afterwards, we headed to the roof top gardens and visited the area were the pilgrims met to make the plan to [...]
Wednesday May 21st-Sydney Colglazier
Starting off the day with a boat tour was nice. I love being out on the water, but this felt like we had already seen a big part of what we already saw. We did get to see a little bit more of the big barge ships and how those are loaded up. Later on [...]
Misty Snyder – May 21
The Rotterdam Port tour via boat was a fantastic extenstion to the bike tour we had on Monday. The ports and the people who work in them have always been the heart and soul of Rotterdam. Learning about how technology is transforming the types of cargo moving through the ports, while reshaping the way the [...]
