Rotterdam

 We arrived in Rotterdam October 1. We decided to visit the city because it was bombed flat during WWII and completely rebuilt. It has lots of modern skyscrapers, so is extremely different than Amsterdam.

We found this bench on our first walk. It was very neat because the 'art' (pictured below) above the water stumped us. We think it was an innovative way to keep seagulls and poop off the benches and walking paths.

The famous Erasmus bridge.

 We happened to run into a parade on our walk through the town. All of the bands were great.

October 2 we went on a river cruise of the Rotterdam port, it is the third largest in the world.

October 3 we took a day trip to Den Haag to go to the beach. Although it took us most of the day getting to the beach, it was beautiful and well worth it.

Rotterdam has some strange buildings, including these cube houses.

Every time we met someone from Holland and we told them we were going to Rotterdam they had the same response: 'Why?'. It was an unusual city and definitely not our favourite, so we are glad to be going back to Amsterdam.