this past saturday afternoon we went to rotterdam to see where 2 of M's friends are living...and where they will be moving to in a year or so...they are planning on buying a house in an 'up and coming' neighborhood. the entire house needs to be refurbished and re-done. but currently they are living in an anti-squat place in the city of schiedam. its in a deserted office building in the middle of a industrial area- where who knows what kind of shady things go down. they have a whole floor of this place to themselves, its huge. but its also freezing cold- there's no heat or hot water. so the rent is cheap- i prefer a real house with necessities than cheap living in a shady area. but we went to the top of this building, maybe 10 stories high, it was a nice view.
then we biked from there several km to the city of rotterdam and around some neighborhoods. the city reminds me of baltimore a bit- a city based on its harbor. rotterdam has all these "new" huge office buildings, because everything was bombed in the war and needed to be rebuilt. its the most 'american' city in the netherlands, as far as architecture and a central downtown business district goes.
we had to bike thu a tunnel that went under the harbor. we also biked by this 'parking lot' area for boats, one permanent boat had a playground on it even. beautiful sunset.
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