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30/6/2022 0 Comments

Bike tour Day 5

Delft - Rotterdam (+ Ridderkerk)

The road from Delft to Rotterdam, only 18km, took us through more flat fields and waterways. The only rise in the road usually comes when one has to cross a canal or waterway or has to get up to a dyke. So hills are not the issue when biking in the Netherlands, it's the wind... for one is so exposed biking through these open fields or along water ways, as we experienced the day before on the long route from Leiden to Delft... Thankfully it wasn't too windy this day, but it was the warmest day at 27 degrees C. 

​Rotterdam is very different city, compared to Amsterdam, Leiden, Delft. It has many modern buildings, with an emphasis on art and architecture. So much of the old city was bombed during WWII that hardly any historical buildings are left along the canals. One of the more recent structures is the Market Hall, which was completed in 2014. The inside has many food stalls, but what struck me most is ceiling which boasts the largest artwork I have ever seen called 'Horn of Plenty'.

In the middle of the market we hit the jackpot! We found gold, the real deal: authentic Portuguese Pastel de Nata's!!! Crispy, creamy, delicious... Merging memories of our bike trip in Portugal with new memories of our current trip. Wishing Sol and Tracy could be here to have a 'Compal' fruit juice and a Pastel de Nata... 
Another cool building is the Depot of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, where "visitors can see the result of 173 years of collecting. More than 151,000 objects housed together, arranged in fourteen storage compartments with five different climates."  Along the same road, we found 'Sylvette', a large 'concrete sgraffito' sculpture made by Picasso and sculptor Carl Nester in 1954.

I wish we would have had an extra day here, so we could have actually visited some of the musea.

After a little break at our floating H2otel, we hopped back on the bike around 6:30pm to go to Unesco World Heritage site Kinderdijk. We biked over the Erasmus bridge, past the Feijenoord soccer stadium on to Ridderkerk where we stopped for dinner. It was the only place we could find along the way and turned out to be a fancy Tapas place; unlimited small bites were served two at a time. By the time we were finished with dinner the last ferry to Kinderdijk had come and gone and we had to race to catch the last 'fast ferry' back to Rotterdam.

Indeed a super fast ferry and a beautiful sunset light invited us to take many pictures of Rotterdam's bridges instead of the hoped for Polaroids of Kinderdijk's Windmills... 
Next up: Day 6: Rotterdam - Gouda - Alphen - Nieuwkoop
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