Rotterdam

We left our hotel after a good night's sleep (something Daniel and I really needed after our field trip!) we stopped at a gas station for coffee. Jeff came back, not only with coffee but, with sausage in a flaky bread blanket - the sausage tasted very much like pig in the blanket meat - very different from German bratwurst. He also brought back almond cookies and stroepwaffln - thin, caramel-filled waffles - yum! Rotterdam is where you find lots of windmills and we did!

Rotterdam looked like we imagined the Netherlands would look like - windmills, canals, lace curtains in the windows of very neat-looking homes. It is also a huge port town. There were enormous pieces of equipment to load containers onto ships in huge harbors. But we were mostly focused on the quaint windmills.

The Schiedam Molenstad.

We drove through a small suburb of Rotterdam called Schiedam, which is full of windmills. You can drive along a circle which takes you by them. I think we counted almost ten. Most of them were 200-400 years old! They were wonderfully picturesque!

We loved Rotterdam, now on to Delft!