{"id":4073,"date":"2024-03-30T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2024-03-30T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:48:34","slug":"a-half-a-day-in-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"A Half A Day In Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>It&#8217;s been a while since i posted here, but &#8230; Haven&#8217;t been doing much travelling lately, nobody wants to hear about needful but unpleasant trips to to the dentist, and if I posted work-related stuff I&#8217;d probably get fired.<\/em><br>However, I had a couple of days of &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; leave to use before the end of March <em>(5 days carried over from 2023, 2.5 used on Bank Holidays &amp; a dentist trip)<\/em>, so I&#8217;d booked the days off without having a solid plan for what I was going to do with them, then came up with the plan somewhat at the last minute. There were probably more sensible ways to do things, but &#8230; This is what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Train to London, then train to Harwich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Night boat to Hoek van Holland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metro to Rotterdam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spent the day mooching about in Rotterdam<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metro back to Hoek van Holland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Night boat back to Harwich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Train to London, mooched about in London for a bit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Something to note: The Night Boat back to the UK doesn&#8217;t get you to London until 0900 or so, so there&#8217;s no way I could start work at my regular time unless I took my work laptop on holiday with me (which HR have made abundantly clear they&#8217;re not keen on). The Day Boat gets back to London sufficiently late that I could just make the last train back &#8216;home&#8217;, but only if absolutely nothing goes wrong, and it&#8217;s still 0100 or so, which is a bit late for a work night. Thus, two night-boat trips.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&#8217;ll be fairly picture-heavy, so I&#8217;ll put in a cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Stena Line do a Rail+Sail ticket to the Netherlands (and probably to other places too), so I just had to get myself to London, and then to Liverpool Street Station. Had a half-day ( to use up the aforementioned use-it-or-lose-it leave, so there was no particular rush.<br>Conveniently, the station is right beside the ferry terminal; There were very few walk-on passengers ( not many passengers of any sort, in fact; Even the truckers-only restaurant I accidentally wandered into was mostly deserted, and you&#8217;d generally only see or hear people in the bar\/cafe\/restaurant bit on the 9th deck )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the admittedly stupid goal here was to take a boat to another country in a circumstance where someone actually cared; I&#8217;ve done the ferry to Dublin, but that was in 2014, so the passport control kiosks were unoccupied, and nobody looked at my passport.<br>This time, they did.<br>There was a check of the ticket once boarding started.<br>Then there was an actual security scan, with metal detector &amp; a bag-scanning machine.<br>Then a British Border Control Officer to look at my passport &amp; ask some questions about purpose &amp; length of trip; The &#8216;one day&#8217; thing was a bit unusual, it seems, but they seemed to get the &#8220;it&#8217;s all the leave I had to use&#8221; aspect of things. Or they didn&#8217;t really care.<br>Then there was another passport check, but this time so that I could be issued with my room key (a cardboard thing with I&#8217;m guessing an RFID chip in it or something, but it had my details and the room+deck number printed on it), a breakfast voucher (it was pretty late when we boarded, so I had dinner in London, but figured I&#8217;d want breakfast the next day), and a voucher thing that could be scanned for onboard purchases so that I&#8217;d get loyalty points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On board &#8230; It&#8217;s a bit like an odd hotel. An odd empty hotel.<br>There&#8217;s a picture of the deck plan way down the bottom of the post, and the stairs did have colour codes for navigation purposes, but given that it was pretty damn empty, I just climbed until I hit the right deck &amp; followed the signs until I found my cabin. ( Distinct Starship Titanic vibes, for anyone who remembers that game? )<br>I went with the cheapest of the &#8220;I&#8217;d Like A Window&#8221; options, and it was pretty nice. Comfy bed, my own bathroom, and a decent view. (Though I did end up closing the blind to sleep; There was no light out there to shine in, but the lights on the hull were close enough to light up the room, so I must have been pretty close to one of them) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slept well, but I expected to; For some reason I sleep well on any transport that isn&#8217;t an aircraft; Most of the time this means that I fall asleep on tour buses and long train trips, but it does pay off for the overnight journeys.<br>Breakfast was &#8230; Unremarkable, but the view out the front of the ship was good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4088\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_145046-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4088\" 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height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4080\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240319_220219-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" 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data-id=\"4078\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_060931-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4085\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_061753-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"4081\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_075150-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First thing I saw when I looked out the window? Someone riding a black upright bicycle with a basket along a cycle path on a dike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got my passport checked by the Dutch Authorities on arrival; Again, they thought the one-day trip was a bit odd, but seemed to accept my reason. Or they genuinely didn&#8217;t care.<br>Much like at Harwich, there was a train station right outside the terminal at Hoek van Holland; It worked the same as the London Underground, where you just tap a contactless bank card on the way in &amp; out of the station, so I didn&#8217;t have to try to understand any ticket vending machines.<br><em>I could have transferred from this local system to an intercity one, and made the trip to Amsterdam or Den Haag, but with a fairly limited time frame I didn&#8217;t want to spend too much of it on a train. Plus, now that I&#8217;ve made this frist attempt and have some idea of how the thing works, I can be a smidge more adventurous on a subsequent trip? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Didn&#8217;t realise that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Claus_(sculpture)\">&#8220;Santa Claus&#8221;<\/a> statue there was in Eendrachtsplein; I picked that station to get off at because of a canal &amp; sculpture trail, and had a moment of &#8216;why do I recognise a thing I&#8217;ve never seen&#8217; when I spotted it &#8211; It has appeared in many funny internet posts over the years.<br>Mostly I just wandered around, looked at things, followed paths to see where they went ( including across a bridge at one point ), and marveled at the amount of cycle infrastructure &amp; bicycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large 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stop, on the recommendation of a friend, was the area around Blaak station.<br>Lots of architecture, lots of art, and the Old Harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cube houses are things I&#8217;d seen pictures of, so I took the opportunity to have a look around the one that&#8217;s set up as a museum. 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my picture, but there&#8217;s a huge mural(?) on the roof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, after wandering for a bit and finding a somewhat underground shopping area, an municipal marble race thing, based on Rotterdam. 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I did something like 25km of walking that day, according to my watch-tracker, so it&#8217;s not that surprising.<br>After a while, as the afternoon crept on, I spent a bit of time people-watching in the square (so many bicycles, and so much of the infrastructure is built to make it a shared space; Ramps incorporated into the design of steps\/seating, and those groove track things beside staircase to walk a bike up &amp; down), and then hopped the metro back to the ferry terminal.<br>I got there a bit before boarding time, but not too early, and had a similar boarding\/passport experience, though the Dutch authorities didn&#8217;t scan my bags (they did ask what I&#8217;d done on my day in Rotterdam, and probably regretted asking the question after I gave a potted review of the Cube Houses, and the Library, and the Sculpture Trail by the Canal, &#8230; )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slightly more people on this trip, in that I saw other folks in the hallways &amp; on the stairs a couple of times, but it still wasn&#8217;t crowded. The vehicle deck was empty on the way over (at least the bit I could see was), but full of Truck+Trailer units for the return trip; I&#8217;m assuming the drivers were mostly in the Truckers-Only section, because there weren&#8217;t that many more people in the bar or restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again, slept well on the trip back.<br>I went for the dinner option, on the grounds that boat arrives in the UK early enough that Breakfast would be <em>unreasonably <\/em>early, especially when I was heading into London, where many fine breakfast places exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-6 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"4118\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_20240320_191025-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" 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