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spiderbraids ([personal profile] spiderbraids) wrote2020-06-09 10:27 pm
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Blast from the Past: SpiderBraids' European Vacation, revisited (Day 6)

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Our last day in Rotterdam, and here's the Erasmus Bridge, on our way to cruise the river on a Spido river cruise (see sign in foreground).

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The Euromast, from our river cruise.

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The cruise also took us past Rotterdam's port.

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A scene from the port.

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Our cruise also passed the permanently moored Rotterdam cruise ship...

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And the Hotel New York (built at the former offices of the Holland-America boatline).

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More scenery from the boatride.

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Random corner of Rotterdam (Eendrachtsweg) while walking around trying to decide where to have lunch.

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We ended up at the Bazar Cafe, with Middle East food. Naan, goat cheese pie, and a steak with fries.

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We spent our afternoon shopping around the Lijnbaan again. I already showed a picture of some shops yesterday, so here's a picture of a rather unusual Burger King.

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After shopping and a little snacking, time to head to Porto. And look at that rain...

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Check-in counters, looking a bit more like a domestic airport than one of the world's major hubs. The Netherlands isn't exactly a big country, so the "domestic" counters serve flights to other EU destinations.

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Our plane, and it's a pretty small one compared to the China Airlines one that brought us to the Netherlands. By now, the rain has let up a bit, and it's still quite bright for 8:30pm.
(2020 extra thoughts: CS-TPB was already 20 years old at the time of our flight, and it's since been retired along with the rest of TAP/Portugalia's Fokker 100s and scrapped)

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Flying to Porto...

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Our in-flight "meal" both ways is a long bun with some meat in it and a small cake.

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Landing in Porto at night. Not much to see here.

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And (although not from that night) the hotel we're staying at in Porto, the Hotel Fenix.