Lijnbaan. The famous words from the Dutch winner of the Tour de France; The tour is won in bed are stuck to the World Trade Center. It's only a couple more weeks till the Tour starts in Rotterdam and the project Yellow Lines will show us more quotes from famous Tour bikers on various buildings the coming weeks.

Yesterdays winner of the funniest caption competition is Peter.
Thing is I am pretty sure he 's from Rotterdam, so a postcard might not make his day.
Let me know Peter!

Karel Doormanstraat. It´s been a while since I held one, but I thought this photo was really asking for it, so I am doing a funniest caption competition again. Winner will be announced tomorrow and will receive a very touristy postcard from Rotterdam.

Willemskade. Guys, this is a bus! Seriously, how weird is this? They advertise with: the most splashing way to see Rotterdam and if you want to how this bus drives and floats click here.
I am having a `funniest caption contest` tomorrow, so make sure to come back!

The big red cranes (referring to the Rotterdam harbor) that are lights at Schouwburgplein.

Willemskade. Turkish Meze at the border of the river De Maas with the most photographed bridge of the Netherlands in the back.

Beukelsbrug. View on the Aelbrechtskade and the Euromast on an airless spring day.

Heemraadssingel. The last days have been beautiful and warm and these flowers made me feel like I was at the Spanish costa's.

Spaanseburg. While looking onto the Haringvliet I saw these waterscooters come by the other day. A first one for me in the Rotterdam harbor.

Scheepstimmermanslaan. A man, a dog and a bike. Today's post is dedicated to Irina from Moscow Daily Photo. She went out of her way to photograph my son's waterpolo team which is playing a 3 day tournament in Moscow. Without me and her both being part of the City daily Photo community this would have been impossible. Just goes to show, friends are nearer than you think and the world is a small place isn't it!

Hillelaan. The Afrikaanderwijk is doing a lot to pimp it's image and looks. Do you think they met the challenge?

Poolsestraat. It has been in fashion for some time but now the weather is finally decent again, the wave boards come out from their hiding places. According to wiki; The Wave has made multiple television and movie appearances from international pop culture movies such as Hannah Montana: the Movie to smaller cult-classics such as the Rob and Big television show. It was also awarded the 2008 “Seal of Excellence” as well as “Kids Product of the Year” from Creative Child Magazine.
In America, two states have forbidden the use of The Wave due to a large amount of accidents occurring.

Koperslagerstraat. This metal store had things that I have no idea of how to use them nor what to call them.

Winkelcentrum Plaza. The bakery in this shopping mall sells the above posted pastry as a "Rotterdammertje". For the sake of my blog I had to try them of course and they are yummy. Bit hazelnut/meringue and lots of icing sugar.

I doubt whether it can be combined with the other Rotterdammertje I ate a couple of days ago.

Willemskade, view on the terrace of Turkish restaurant Zenne.

Honingerdijk, botanical garden Arboretum Trompenburg dates back till 1820 and has -amongst others- a beautiful collection of rhododendrons.

Willemskade, downstairs in the Word Museum, overlooking the river the Meuse out of comfy Chesterfields, a wine bar is located where you can have some fingerfood too.

IJzerwerkerkade. A Rotterdam quay with a history for shiprepair and iron. It has got a big DIY shop and a metalshop I will show you in a couple of days.

Koninging Emmaplein. This square, build between 1888-1891 has a lot of Neo Renaissance houses.

My place. Yesterday I noticed for the very first time there is an actual sausage called a Rotterdammertje.

This is the only thing I could find online (sorry only available in Dutch):
Ook uit ons eigen land komen heerlijke droge worstsoorten. Vooral de noordelijke provincies hebben er een patent op. Het klimaat schijnt zich daar goed te lenen voor het drogen van deze metworsten, die van oorsprong worden gemaakt van snij-afval van varkensvlees. Friese- en Groningse droge worst herken je aan hun heerlijke krachtige kruiderij, waarin kruidnagel de boventoon voert. In Drenthe laten ze de worst langer indrogen. Hij wordt daar ook wel Harde worst of Kosterworst genoemd. Uit Gelderland en Twente komt Boerenmetworst of Zoeltje, genoemd naar het aangename windje waarin de worsten vroeger te drogen hingen. En dan kennen we de Rotterdammertjes, die een stuk hartiger (lees zouter) smaken dan eerdergenoemde soorten.

Regentessebrug. Seriously, I could have fooled you and told you this was Paris right? On the Dutch version of Ebay, called Marktplaats I found this old photo card of the bridge dated around 1920.

Virulyplein. Rotterdam fleurt op (something like Rotterdam is blossoming) is an iniative from the Rotterdam centre for Culture and Nature to plant 75 kilo of flowers/eeds and with the help of a lot of neighborhood groups is hoping to cheer up the bleak places in town.

Regentessebrug. View on the Lightvessel I showed you here in full glory.

Willemskade. It's been seriously chilly these last days and this elderly couple was watching the watertaxi rush by with their coats and shawls on.

Sluice Berg- en Broekse Verlaat. In the summer season (April 15- October 15) this sluise is manned and helps pass recreational ships and boats.

Willemskade, view on the World Museum, an ethnographic museum founded in 1883 and currently featuring an exhibition on Oceania .

Parklaan. Every major city has some sort of music festival on Liberation day and this is the festival in Rotterdam where amongst others Rigby played. Yesterday's temperature was only 9C so only naked in the video.

Tonight is the 2nd match of the Cup final of Feyenoord against Ajax.
Who do you think/hope will win?

Prinses Margrietlaan. Today (Liberation Day) 65 yrs ago, our country was liberated by the Canadian, British and American soldiers. It's a day of feasts, music shows and free markets. Now let's hope the sun plays along too.

Wijnstraat. A bit of a grim photo today. May 4th is Remembrance Day and although most people will think of the losses during WWII, sadly there are also losses to be thought of among our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Prinsemolenpad. Members of rowing club Nautilus drying and cleaning up their boat.

The Nautilus rowing-club was founded 1 januari 1886 by a group of 10 Rotterdam youngsters. It was located in the center of Rotterdam, and the successes of its members were responsible for a growth in its first 25 years to a memberschip of over 100. All male, since it wasn't until 1917 that the club decided to allow female members as well. In 1924 the club moved to Kralingen and Hillegersberg, as the Maas was getting too busy for rowing. On the waters of the Rotte the club continued to grow, and its members still gains successes, including, shortly after its centennial, three world championships. Nowadays Nautilus has about 500 members, rowing at two locations.

Schouwburgplein. Yesterday the circus arrived and took over Schouwburgplein and the nearby theatres for the rest of the week. If want to see the program, click here.

Leuvehaven. It's the first of the month again and today's theme among the city daily photobloggers is Statues. I've thought about it and although this is a photo I posted earlier, I am using it again (it is also my profile photo on Twitter).

This statue that goes by different nicknames (City without a heart is the most well known one) was made by Zadkine who was inspired when he visited Rotterdam shortly after WWII.
May 14th 1940, the city had been bombed heavily and due to the enormous fires after it, "lost its heart". A huge area had to be re-designed and rebuilt as you can see here at the before and after situation.

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