In our excursions today, we got to travel around and see lots of places that have a very tight cultural connection with the Netherlands. During our time with the windmills, I was very surprised about how much nature was out in those fields, and my allergies could definitely tell.
Month: May 2025
20/5/2025
We went to Delft today and saw a lot of incredible architecture and churches that dated back to the 1600s. We hiked to the top of a church and saw a gorgeous view of the whole city. After we went to see a nearby small town with old grain windmills and had fresh fruits and [...]
05/20/25 – Lewis Turley
Today was a very nice easy going morning. We met with our tour guide Alex at the city of Delft which was absolutely wonderful. It was a small slow moving town and was a perfect example of an old Dutch town. We then spent another few hours at Kinderdijk which was a great experience. Today [...]
5/20/25 – Robert Christman
Today we did a tour of the windmills and historical aspect of the Netherlands with the cultural history that we saw. The tour guide showed us the markets and what the Netherlands are known for in their industry back then and even now compared to the US.
5/19/25 – Robert Christman
Today we did an excursion to the bike tour around the largest port of the world. We saw all the ships and cargo that gets transported throughout the world like the cars we saw back in Germany with the factories.
19/5/2025
Today we had an incredible tour of the Port of Rotterdam. This was one of my personal favorite tours as we got to bike all around the city of rotterdam. We biked in a special bike tunnel that crossed under Nieuwe Mass River. After our tour of Rotterdam we got a tour of The Hague [...]
Day 9, May 19 – Dennis Browning
We took our bike tour of Rotterdam today, specifically of the port of Rotterdam. I have not ridden a bike in years, so it took some getting used to. The port was beautiful and there was a lot to see, boats, examples of their rising automation, the area that has changed around the ports over [...]
Monday 5-19 – Lauren Holloway
We took a tour around the Port of Rotterdam on this day and it was awesome! We learned that they are building areas out instead of inland so that they don’t have to bring carriers all the way through the port because it’s very costly and time consuming. With the old inland areas that are [...]
Day 9 – Risner
Today we took a bike tour around the port of Rotterdam. Our tour guide described how rotterdam is only 1 of 3 ports world wide that can accept Super Container Carriers like the one that got stuck in the suez canal last year. It was interesting seeing the sheer size of the port and being [...]
May 19-Will Nyberg
Today we took a bike tour of the port of Rotterdam, this was one of my favorite activity of the trip. The tour guide shared experiences and knowledge about the development of the ports and the rebuilding of the city post war. After the tour of the port we visited The Hague and the Mauritshuis [...]
