I took these photos from the livingroom window of my managers 17th floor flat in downtown Rotterdam.\u00a0\u00a0 What an amazing view she has!\u00a0 I can’t imagine the amount of photos I’d be taking if I had that kind of view, especially on New Years Eve!<\/p>\n
One really cool thing that I love here is the KPN Building by the Erasmus Bridge (the white bridge in the background).\u00a0\u00a0 Each window has a small green light in front of it and they use them to make pictures day and night.\u00a0 When I am switching trams to go to and from work I watch it all the time.\u00a0\u00a0 I found a video on YouTube of the intersection where I wait, it shows the building in action.\u00a0\u00a0 The video is sped up slightly, so don’t think I live in some crazyassed place where everyone drives like maniacs.\u00a0 Oh wait, yeah actually I do.. it’s just not as bad as in the video :P<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nHow cool is that!\u00a0 They even have that dancing baby, remember the one that Ally McBeal kept seeing?\u00a0\u00a0 I love that haha<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nGotta love the chipmunk speak at the end.\u00a0 I wish they’d just left it real time so you can see how it looks for real but I guess they wanted to keep the file size down or something.<\/p>\n
If you want to see more photos of the city, here you go:<\/p>\n
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So if you are ever in the Netherlands, remember… there’s more to see than just Amsterdam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the past few years I’ve really grown to appreciate the city I live in.\u00a0\u00a0 I think I’m becoming a hardcore Rotterdammer at heart.\u00a0\u00a0 I can understand why tourists prefer Amsterdam, as it still has more of that historical Dutch look but Rotterdam has some of that too, but with something really cool and modern …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33,73,132],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","tag-netherlands","tag-rotterdam","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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