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I actually think I enjoyed Rotterdam more than Amsterdam. Rotterdam is young, vibrant, hip, varied. Amsterdam was none of that really - beautiful yes but lacking the things I find most admirable about cities. :)

 

The architecture too is overwhelming in its differences with nearly every other city.

We in Rotterdam all ways say in Amsterdam they live in a big museum:)

Thanks that you like the city off Rotterdam :)I live across the Erasmus bridge and my view is the cruise terminal, sometimes we cruise with HAL and we walk over the bridge whit our suicase, that is the way I like to cruise :-).

Have a save trip home !!

I can see where you come from, but all the other cruise lines do the same thing, we from Europe pay more than people from the USA and I don't no why.

Maby there is someone out there who can explain why European pay more for the cruise out of the USA.

I have the luck that we Always cruise whit friends from the USA so them book for us.

Yes we won again from the Aussies :) 3-2

This is typical Dutch, a lot off Dutch people eat this in the morning on bread and butter, specially kids.

And this is the kroket, so good !!! whit musterd on a roll, but I only eat it on a special occasion ( lott of calories ):) when my friends from the USA are in Holland we Always have a lunch whit kroketten they love them.

Hello All,

Her the Dutch recipe for the pea soep, the way we Dutch people make most off the time.

2 liter water/ 8 1/2 cups water

500 gr.slpiterwten/ 18 oz

Hamschijf met bot/ Ham whit bone

gerookt spek blokjes/ 5 ounces smoked bacon cubes

2 uien/ 2 onios

1 winterwortel Carrot (1 big one, ore 3 small)

2 prei/ 2 Leek

1 klein knolselderij/ 1 small turnip (rooted celery)

2 aardappels / 2 potatos

peper.zout / peper/salt

Rinse the spitpeas under runnig water.

Boil the water put the slitpeas, ham and baconcubes in the water, and start boil the water again (you must skim it at couple tims).

Peel all the vegetables and cut them the turnip and potatos in cubes, put

the vegetables in the pan on a low fire, it will take 2 1/2 till 3 hours till the soup is ready, take out the ham cut the meat from the bone in pieces and put the meat back in the pan.

I love your reports, and make your one pea soup at home :), I post this recepie befor, enjoy. ( in Holland we put in smoke sausage but I never saw that in the USA).