Parkkade. The city se reveille.

Karel Doormanstraat. Although still pretty cold (around 0 C at daytime), the days start to lenghten and the feeling of spring is never far away with lots of tulips.

Otto Reuchlinweg. Theatre/Cinema Lantaren 't Venster has moved. I haven't been there yet but it looks like they have a splendid location here.

Walhallalaan. We discovered these huge mic like things on our walk through Katendrecht.

Spaanseweg. The selection rounds for the Rotterdam (school)swimming matches were held yesterday and the school of my children is through to the finals. Yeah!

Nieuwe Binnenweg. Tigers creep up everywhere because today the International Filmfestival Rotterdam starts again. Want to see what's going on? Click here for tickets and info.

Heemraadssingel. I can't help but think of Alfred.

Burg. Meineszlaan. Any comments on this one?

Kerkdreef, the cemetery and the ruins of the old castle in Hillegersberg.

Wilhelminakade. Our national colours, Red, white and blue.

Walhallalaan. Boys playing soccer on a sunny moment. Our winter seems to have gone for the moment. The snow has melted and although our nights are stil freezing, the days are all above 0 degrees.

Coolsingel. The 'door man' of the city hall is having an off day by the looks of him.

Grotekerkplein. Looking outside onto the Laurenskerk (or big church) from within Vietnamese restaurant LittleV .

The steward of the SS Rotterdam trying to sell his tours to some bikers passing by.

Rijnhaven, view from the SS Rotterdam on one of the oldest harbours of Rotterdam on the south bank.

Paetsstraat. An Albert Heijn employee storing aways some crates. Albert Heijn, the driving force behind the expansion of the Netherlands-based grocery chain operator Royald Ahold into international markets, has died, the company says.
Heijn was 83 and died "peacefully" at home in Britain on Thursday, the company said Friday, without giving a cause of death. He was named for his grandfather, the founder of the Albert Heijn grocery chain that is now by far the Netherlands' largest.
Ahold is known for ownership of the Giant and Stop & Shop chains in the United States.

Weena, a view on Railz miniworld, the largest indoor model railroad layout of the Netherlands.

Leuvehaven. Did I tell you it rains a lot here? Like in the past 4 days non stop? It did melt the snow but I would really really like a not so grey day pretty please.

Aelbrechtskade. For some reason there were a lot of swans around a couple of days ago and lucky for me this one took his time landing.

Wilhelminakade. This huge queue is waiting for the entrance of Body Worlds, an exhibition of 200 real bodies (made out of 11,000 donors worldwide!)

Runiing up the Erasmusbridge.

Beukelsdijk. Finally! A nice sunny day again. This man and his dog are enjoying the rays of light.

Leuvehaven. Seagull, it says on the ship. The Leuvenhaven is a harbor dating back till the early 1600's. Originally a shallow creek, but nowadays a harbor for historical ships, taking tourists on tours or boats that use the inner waters of the Netherlands (instead of the sea).

Parkkade. Reflections of a Rotterdam icon. For stability it is built on a concrete block of 1,900,000 kilograms (4,190,000 lb) so that the centre of gravity is below ground. It has a "crow's nest" observation platform 96 meters (315 ft) above-ground and a restaurant. Originally 101 meters (331 ft) in height it was the tallest building in Rotterdam. It lost this position for a while, but regained it when the "Space Tower" was added to the top of the building in 1970, giving an additional 85 meters (279 ft).

Parkkade. View on the ventilation of the Maastunnel, the tunnel connecting the banks of the Maas. Opened in 1942, it was the first car tunnel in the Netherlands.

Schiedamsedijk. I say dinosaur. You'd better be quick if you want to see something left of the old Imax theatre, coz he's hungry!

Westblaak, a figg and almond clafoutis as desert from the very nice lunch menu we had in the new La Vilette.

Leuvehaven. We are having a lot of hail, wet snow and an occasional sunny half an hour at the moment. I wish mister winter would make up his mind.

Westewagenstraat. From breakfast till afternoon tea or diner (or a bitterbal in between), Dudok is always busy.

Museum Boymans van Beuningen. Maurizio Cattelan looking up at some famous Dutch masters.
This life-size sculpture is a self-portrait. The artist looks up through a hole in the floor. You can see the room below which appears to be a storage room but is in fact the staff cloakroom.

Meent, Today's theme days is about the photo of 2010. There were many highlights last year, but the world championship soccer was one of them. During the championship the Dutch team became almost unbeatable and the dutch people totally berserk. In the end, the German octopus Paul predicted the outcome right again: we became second.

May this year bring all of you love, peace, happiness and triumph in whatever you do :)
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