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| Walking over "The Swan"-the Erasmus Bridge |
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| Hotel New York where Carola's sister, Kitty likes to stay when she visits from Singapore. |
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| Holland America Line |
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| Carola lives on an island so close to the city that we took a water taxi. |
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| It went very fast! |
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| Dane enjoyed looking back at the waves. |
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| Dane likes boat rides. |
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| Carola's house-on the right |
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| Spido Tour Boat |
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| The Erasmus Bridge (called The Swan) |
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| Fun on the boat |
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| Holland America Lines ( we thought our family had left for Canada from here but later Ome Frits said that we took the train to le Havre in France and left from there. |
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| Many cranes |
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| A barge tour boat |
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| Many large ships |
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| A port of Rotterdam tugboat |
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| Windmills-even here |
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| On the upper deck it was windy and cool. |
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| A university building where Carola has studied in the past (Chemistry degree) |
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| The tunnel under De Maas River |
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| "The Rotterdam" now a restaurant previously took many people to Canada |
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| Dane's new friend this morning-Ome Jan-practising eye closing |
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| The new Central Station |
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| The courthouse |
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| Most of Rotterdam got bombed during World War 2 and rebuilding is still going on. |
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| Lourenskerk-almost had to be completely rebuilt. |
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| Fish Market |
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| Apartments with a mall underneath |
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| Cube Housing |
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| Coffee time |
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| In front of World Museum where Carola works organizing all the schedules | of the Rotterdam Sinfonia and other musical concerts. |
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| The hall where the concerts here take place. |
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| We had a delicious sandwich in the restaurant on the main floor. |
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| Kick and Dane |
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| A Gramma Bicke ride |
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| For Easter supper ,we all cooked our own meats and vegetables. |
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| L-R Luke, Linde,Sarah,Ome Frits, Maaike, Tante Thea, Margot, Inge |
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| Playing "Keezen" |
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| The Winner-Inge |
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| A temple |
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| The Oude Kerk (The Old Church) |
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| The church tower |
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| Dane was happy to go on the train.These are some highlights of our tour of Amsterdam with Margot on Easter Sunday, April 20,2014 They are not in order as I tried but could not do so. |
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| David and Goliath-In 1978 when I was last in Netherlands, they were in a restaurant. |
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| The Crying Tower-Women went there to cry when their men didn't come back from fishing on the sea. |
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| Sarah was busy taking photos all day |
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| Entrance to the secret church used when worship was not permitted. |
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| The Peace Monument-1945 |
