Our Nostalgic Tour to Rotterdam and Delft
On 9-02-2011 we boarded the 9:08 train to Utrecht our plan was to visit Rotterdam and Delft
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The City of Rotterdam
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It was a bright day at the start
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So was the situation when we were near Rotterdam
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We entered Rotterdam through the suburb Alexanderpolder
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Where our Energy Supplier has his office
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But at the Alexanderpolder station it was a little bit misty
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Inside the train not at all
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Outside we saw the Fyra train the high Velocity connection Amsterdam Rotterdam going to Rotterdam
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A quarter of an hour later we walked in the Shopping Trench or "koop goot"
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There were only a few shoppers
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We almost had the whole area to our selves
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And world known fashion stores were waiting for us
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But we did not enter them
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We wanted to see the Erasmus Bridge
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So this was the right direction
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And that was the opposite one
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We did not follow these staircases
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But exited at the other side
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This was inside the V&D store
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Where you can go up 4 stairs
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Of course via the innerside
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And not from the outside like our son Bob of 4 did in 1972!
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Still misty outside
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We are nearing the highest storey
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Not so high as in Melbourne
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Old building spared during the war
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But this is a new building on an old place
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Along the Meuse Boulevard
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But where was the Erasmus Bridge?
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Despite the hard wind
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The mist was still around us
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Who said this was beautifull?
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And somewhere there was a bridge?
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You are lucky if you can read the signs
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Where is the beautifull Tower of this suspension bridge?
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Nowhere to be seen
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Even from a short distance
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Are these cables coming out of the sky?
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Or is there still a tower somewhere?
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Yes there is its base
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And there its top
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Its a slender construction
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Of Dutch Engineering ingenuity
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A last glance at the top
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And the damper construction to reduce vibrations of the cables
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We are near the Harbour Museum of Rotterdam
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This is the place
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Was it before or after 1989?
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Did she had flat feet?
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Whose feet are these?
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Gloria on high heels?
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Hi Cliff I forgot to shake hands with you
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It's almost like "Copa de Badalona" of 1967
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Free entrance but no visitors
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What kind of yard is this?
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What kind of machines are to be seen?
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From which boat is this motor?
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Sturdy but less horsepower?
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Less height by an angled cilinder block
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Now passing a nailshop on the Coolsingel
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Two turning vertical rectangles on the binnenwegplein George Rickey 1971
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An old gate on the Lijnbaan
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The souvenirshop with standard Dutch products
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But some are needed globally
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Back at the Central Station of Rotterdam
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A Fyra train on the other side ready to depart
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We have been in Rotterdam for two hours at this moment
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Now two hours and a quarter hour
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Our walk in Delft about 4 hours
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We met again with the old Delft railway station
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Where the ceiling is still the same as we left it 40 years ago
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But formerly you could buy tickets at these counters
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This view is to the south
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And this to the north
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But what is this?
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Where are the former ancient buildings?
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What are they planning to build now?
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Is this the way they change all cities?
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And is the station the only building to survive?
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Do not dare to distroy it!
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And don't throw all the bicycles in the canal
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Just moore some Dutch sailing boats in the water
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Is this the main road to the station later?
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And this the students alley to the city?
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This Barbara Steeg is a cleaner alley than in Amsterdam!
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Is this the famous Oude Delft view East ?
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And this the view to the West?
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Yes, and this the Oude Delft to the East from the bridge
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This is the Breestraat
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And this the Koornmarkt
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With the former Hospital on the right
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This is a synagoge
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With beautiful buildings on the other side of the gracht or canal
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This is the old Townhall
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With the Nieuwe Kerk in the background where all the kings and queens are tombed
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The typical Old Dutch Shops on the Nieuwe Markt
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We could not find a former café so we ended in the Coffee Company, a students café with Wifi
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Where I took this picture from and put some messages on the billboard of 50plusser on my notebook
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Another view of the Nieuwe Kerk behind houses
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We are still in a crisis, many shops are closing
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But animals are thriving
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They just have to wait
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Till someone comes to feed them
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But I don't have some food with me
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I can only talk a little bit
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and wait
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till this goose
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is moving
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for a better pose
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for the photograph
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This is the Gasthuislaan, also a street near a former hospital
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With many bridges
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This is the Oostpoort, the gate at the Eastern part of Delft formerly, view from the city
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View from outside the city
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In 1968 one evening we bought a yellow 2CV underneath that yellow light lantern, it was a grey 2CV in daylight!
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After Military Conscript in 1960 this was the street where I came to live and José came in my life
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I used to go through the red door
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Up to the third floor where my roomwindow was
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The landlady lived beneath me
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On that corner I bought a loaf for 37 cent (0,37 Guilder!)
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I have lived on the Professor Henketstraat too
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It was on the left of the most left house on this photograph on nbr 55
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Yes somewhere in this street
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That still bears the same name
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Why are they doing this?
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Do they need bio gas?
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No 2CV's nowadays
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But how many heaps of bicycles?
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There I lived on the 4th floor 48 years ago
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And this was formerly a clean wall
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With clean doors
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And a clean kitchen inside
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This is the view to the East
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And to the South West from the ground
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Where the tree is now decorated
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With spare bicyclewheels
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And the pond littered with clubseats
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Even dangling from the trees
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But they will fell the tree
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So they will have a cleaner view
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And not having to see the chairs
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Hanging from the tree
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A last view
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at the building
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where I lived for a few years
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They have done their job
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The new library, North side
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South side
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English spoken?
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New Library Top side
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Former Holland's tallest building with 22 storeys
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Entrance to the Aula
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Not for vans or lorries
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Physics building
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Delft 125 years feast, 150 years feast in this building
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Mechanical Engineering building
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Yes, feasts in evening dress
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The Porcelleyne Fles a very well known ceramics factory
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Yes, like José and Bob 42 years ago
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Yes there was a bridge across the canal in the distance
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And the sun is beginning to shine
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Children are playing
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But the tunnel is closed, so twice a detour
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None the less we are nearing our final destination: The Steelconstruction Flat
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Where we have lived and our son was born
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The second building was built a year later
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There were lots of tall buildings in that area
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This was the unfamous jump building
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And that where a colleague lived
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In this building at nbr 243 we had lived
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On the sixth floor one from the end
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It's a one person apartment building now
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With no entrance to the inner doors
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So the postman has not to walk all floors
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The sixth floor is the eleventh from above out of 17!
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Were there trees 42 years ago?
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A very clean building so far
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Here lived the janitor on the groundfloor
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They altered it to the good
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Is it clear now how the situation is?
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No, they can better use Google sattellite Photographs
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Now we are inside Poptahof
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Where there are sales for everyone
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Is this my size?
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Or my color?
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Hey, are we in Switzerland now?
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And is it fair weather there also?
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Or is it Snowy Mountains in Australia?
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Well I like to have taken a picture of me in the snow
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But not too long it's cold here
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Too cold for me!
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So you have to do it with a billbord!
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Is this the latest fashion?
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The sun is shining now
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Shall I take a picture of you?
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In a pose?
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Better in action
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But then I will be out of focus
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And against the sunlight!
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But they will know I'm not standing still but always be in motion
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Like you do
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of course
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But I want to photograph everything I see
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Like this Bus station
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Where you can cross the rails with a flyover
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And have a good view at the station
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and the environment
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But we should descent quickly
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because our train is coming
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And here we can think it all over to go to that statue of Rhodin because he's been back in Laren
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What do you think?
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And what are you looking at?
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How many km's did we travel and how many did we walk today?
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Yes ,we have the right tickets!
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Our tour in Rotterdam about 2 hours
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Our walk in Delft about 4 hours
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