Alice in Denmark: Learning to Snakke Dansk: What is UP Rotterdam???

I said it yesterday and I'll say it again... Rotterdam is WILD. What is UP??? I feel like sharing some more funky Rotterdam spots:

Here's a building that thought about being normal... but then Rotterdam said, oh hell no - put a hole in it!

Sofia (far right) looks concerned. Perhaps it's the insistence on having giant, unused piping outside buildings, or the pencil that looks like a giant industrial number-two pencil - or maybe it's the palm tree in the middle of the concrete jungle that is Rotterdam. That child, center-left, also seems a bit troubled.

"THE DROP PIT . COM"

This is near/on(?) Witte de With - the hip, cool place in Rotterdam. Or, "R-dam" as people who know more about music and cool Dutch things than I do call it.

A floating tree. Because why have a tree on the ground when you can make it float!?!!

FOR SURE the highlight / most unique aspect of our Rotterdam jaunt was the two and a half hour "Pancake cruise" we partook in in the Rotterdam harbor. Sofia found it online... We were hoping to see the harbor and endless docks of containers somehow because the port is of course so central to Rotterdam. Not in our wildest dreams did we suppose we'd be able to simultaneously see the harbor/containers AND have all-you-can eat pancakes. The pancake boat launch is at the base of the Euromast, along a pier that is probably one of the only places in the world where you can go to a giant Chinese supermarket on a barge AND partake in pirate-themed underwater laser tag all in one leisurely stroll.

The Erasmus Bridge in the background and a colorful jagged sculpture.

Annnnd I'm realizing that I uploaded a lot of photos of the Erasmus bridge. But it's fun to photograph! Sofia and and I went on a long night-time walk across and back it... the hostel where pilgrims headed off to the US stayed the night before their voyage is right nearby.

The pancake cruise:

Ordering Pancake boat tickets... I was sufficiently excited about the 'cruise' to be worried that it would be all sold out... But that slightly rainy day in mid-November wasn't truly the peak of Rotterdam tourism so we made it.