Tag Archives: Rotterdam
Euro 24 2nd Semi Final – England v Netherlands
Spain await the winners of the march up in Dortmund for Sundays’ Berlin final. England There are many fine cathedrals in England. How many of these do you recognise? Netherlands Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands and one of Europe’s largest ports. It sits on the River Rhine and is a major […]
Euro 24 Match Day 17 – Romania v Netherlands
In 2011 I did an Eastern European train tour which started with two overnight trains – Budapest to Bucharest followed by Bucharest to Chisinău in Moldova. The latter train was hauled by a beast of a locomotive, whilst our first class sleeper featured net curtains and a plastic tree! Netherlands I travelled on the first […]
Euro 24 Match Day 3 – Poland v Netherlands
There will be plenty of vodka drunk tonight if the Poles manage to beat the Dutch, with many building jobs delayed by a day tomorrow 🙂 Poland The Baltic city of Gdańsk has a famous history. It was close to the Hanseatic port that the first shots were fired in anger at the start of […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 15 – Netherlands v Czech Republic
The last 16 tie takes place in Budapest. 55 ‘European nations’ entered initially including ex-Soviets like Armenia & Kazakhstan, the four UK countries, Israel for political reasons and bizarrely in my opinion Faroe Islands and Gibraltar. What next, Jersey & Yorkshire? Czech Republic I first visited Prague in 1992 when it was part of Czechoslovakia, […]
Euro 2020 Match Day 11 – Netherlands v North Macedonia
The match in Amsterdam is a bit of a dead rubber with the Dutch already through to the knockout stages and the plucky Macedonians on the way out of the competition. Netherlands The second city of Rotterdam is far less visited than Amsterdam, but is a decent place to spend a few hours. I went […]
Bridges of Europe – Part Two, Northern Europe (Benelux & Scandinavia)
The feats of engineering that have enabled road & rail bridges to be built in the mountainous regions of Scandinavia is nothing short of mind boggling. Cutting right through mountains, traversing raging rivers and spanning majestic fjords, they have been built with hard toil and ingenious design. Best of all, they not only blend with […]
Eurostar – Going Dutch
The long awaited direct service from London to Rotterdam & Amsterdam is soon to be operational, but you will have to wait a tiny bit longer to book. Yesterday saw a promotional run of the route for invited journos and the like (my invite was clearly lost in the post, haha). The route takes a […]
