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.
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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 – 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 [...]
Tuesday, May 20th -Elijah Lee
Day 10 was an exhausting day of walking and climbing. We went to the town of Delft where the old architecture was everything I was looking for in the is trip. I loved the view atop the church but the stairs were absolutely a miserable climb. They don’t make tight spiral staircases 20 stories tall [...]
Dominic fisher Day 10 5.20.25
Today we got a tour of the medieval town of delft. This marks our 4th place visited in the Netherlands. It’s interesting to be able to observe and be apart of Dutch cultures of these towns. They all are slightly different in regard to overall history and culture and function of the town which is [...]
May 20th – Mercator Bell
The windmills of Kinderdijk highlighted the intelligence of early engineering. The windmills are a remarkable example of how people used technology to manage water and transform uninhabitable land into fertile farmland. It was nice to see how these historic structures that stand as symbols of Dutch engineering.
Day 10, May 20 – Dennis Browning
Delft is a beautiful city. It seems like it may have been the most important trading center in the world about 300 years ago, but now it’s resigned itself to be a beautiful city for tourism and dealing in Dutch pottery, which is aptly named “Delftware”. Climbing the tower of the “New Church” in Delft [...]
Dominic Fisher day 9 5.19.25
Kicking off the day we went on a bike tour of Rotterdam. While we had some sort of grasp of the scale of both the city and its famous port, biking all around it really gave me a feel for how large the city truly was. We got to witness the shipping boats and the [...]
Day 9 – Cole Nichols
During our trip today, we got on bikes and rode around the city to see the largest port in Europe. This was by far the best excursion of the trip. It was a great exercise and we got to ride in some really cool areas such as the underwater tunnel.
May 18th – Spencer Didat
Today we did an amazing bike tour around Rotterdam. We learned about the accidentally american bombing of Rotterdam. We also learned that Rotterdam has the 5th largest port in the world and the largest port in Europe.
