Once upon a time, we went around Rotterdam…
0 Comments Published by Svetlana Zhukova on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 12:05 AM.
Last week-end we've experienced true summer coming to Rotterdam!
It became sunny and warm very fast, and you could easily see the effect of warmth on people and everything around - summer took its place with the speed of light!
Masha came close to the evening to get finally her tour around Rotterdam, so we headed towards Euromast, the highest structure in the city, observation tower. Was built in 1960 and modernized several times afterwards.
The park I heard so much about was cool indeed, with truly Saturday-family-evening-BBQ mood, children laughing, and green grass cooling feet after the heat of roads…
Given my fondness of highness, I couldn't but like Euromast.
Great view, perfect breeze, my favorite Erasmus bridge down there…
And the see, probably in Hoek van Holland, on the horizon!!!
It had a moving up and turning around cabin, that gave the best views of the city.
And restaurant on top is as cool…
On the way back to the center we got (not knowing about that) into the center at that point of Rotterdam life - Volvo Ocean Race stopover, that is happening for a week in R-dam (it a yacht race around the world with 7 teams - 2 of them are of ABN Amro, and one of them is leading :)
Nice oriental restaurant
We were lucky to get (accidentally again - getting to know what's up with that unusually big crowd on the bridge) to a piece of DJ Tiesto play, it was on a boat in the middle of the river, with light show…
And believe it or not, but after all that we've decided to go to the movie "Poseidon", and saw a "fire dance" or smth like that performance, got the end, clapped and run into the cinema - to follow fast action, and to wonder at the end where is the end, finishing that great Saturday around 2 am…
However, it was all but not the end of the week-end :)
Next morning (starting with the lost wallet of mine) we headed for the brunch in the city, then decided to go to the Zoo (Rotterdam Zoo is considered one of best in Europe, and it's cool indeed).
Animals live more or less good, they have space (much better than conditions I've seen before in zoos…)
I saw the rhinoceros (nosorog) for the first time!!! It had a baby nosorog beside :)
And look, those two - they hold their hands while floating on the water!!!
It was so amazing to see the emotion, like people :)
I've realized I am lucky enough, that I saw many animals in their natural surrounding - deers, blocks, camels, elephants - in the forest in our village, or in my travels in India and Egypt. But I still remember how exciting it was for me to visit a zoo when I was a child!
So some wind of that excitement was brought again :)
And Oceanarium was quite interesting! I saw that fish, the slope (skat), it was so cool to see in real something that I saw only on TV before. The best were bright see stars!!!
Well, and this was like in a movie as well :)
And then… Heated under the hot-hot Sunday sun…
We headed to the lounge of ABN Amro at the Volvo Ocean race!!!
Masha got the tickets, and there were we - nice chill-out area, with drinks unlimited, nice jazz-like music, elegant pavilion, and a couple of hours of talks and laughter with Masha's colleagues (bosses better said:). The best ending of a great vacations-like week-end in Rotterdam!!!
See, you don't always have to go out of your place to have fun, it can be found everywhere !
Happy and summer-ed me :)
It became sunny and warm very fast, and you could easily see the effect of warmth on people and everything around - summer took its place with the speed of light!
Masha came close to the evening to get finally her tour around Rotterdam, so we headed towards Euromast, the highest structure in the city, observation tower. Was built in 1960 and modernized several times afterwards.
The park I heard so much about was cool indeed, with truly Saturday-family-evening-BBQ mood, children laughing, and green grass cooling feet after the heat of roads…
Given my fondness of highness, I couldn't but like Euromast.
Great view, perfect breeze, my favorite Erasmus bridge down there…
And the see, probably in Hoek van Holland, on the horizon!!!
It had a moving up and turning around cabin, that gave the best views of the city.
And restaurant on top is as cool…
On the way back to the center we got (not knowing about that) into the center at that point of Rotterdam life - Volvo Ocean Race stopover, that is happening for a week in R-dam (it a yacht race around the world with 7 teams - 2 of them are of ABN Amro, and one of them is leading :)
Nice oriental restaurant
We were lucky to get (accidentally again - getting to know what's up with that unusually big crowd on the bridge) to a piece of DJ Tiesto play, it was on a boat in the middle of the river, with light show…
And believe it or not, but after all that we've decided to go to the movie "Poseidon", and saw a "fire dance" or smth like that performance, got the end, clapped and run into the cinema - to follow fast action, and to wonder at the end where is the end, finishing that great Saturday around 2 am…
However, it was all but not the end of the week-end :)
Next morning (starting with the lost wallet of mine) we headed for the brunch in the city, then decided to go to the Zoo (Rotterdam Zoo is considered one of best in Europe, and it's cool indeed).
Animals live more or less good, they have space (much better than conditions I've seen before in zoos…)
I saw the rhinoceros (nosorog) for the first time!!! It had a baby nosorog beside :)
And look, those two - they hold their hands while floating on the water!!!
It was so amazing to see the emotion, like people :)
I've realized I am lucky enough, that I saw many animals in their natural surrounding - deers, blocks, camels, elephants - in the forest in our village, or in my travels in India and Egypt. But I still remember how exciting it was for me to visit a zoo when I was a child!
So some wind of that excitement was brought again :)
And Oceanarium was quite interesting! I saw that fish, the slope (skat), it was so cool to see in real something that I saw only on TV before. The best were bright see stars!!!
Well, and this was like in a movie as well :)
And then… Heated under the hot-hot Sunday sun…
We headed to the lounge of ABN Amro at the Volvo Ocean race!!!
Masha got the tickets, and there were we - nice chill-out area, with drinks unlimited, nice jazz-like music, elegant pavilion, and a couple of hours of talks and laughter with Masha's colleagues (bosses better said:). The best ending of a great vacations-like week-end in Rotterdam!!!
See, you don't always have to go out of your place to have fun, it can be found everywhere !
Happy and summer-ed me :)
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