A Day in Rotterdam

I needed to postpone my military duty due to working abroad in the Netherlands, so I went to the Turkish Consulate for Turkish citizens living in Eindhoven, in Rotterdam. It is not really documented anywhere that I found, but turns out the Consulate comes to Eindhoven in the weekends once in a while. Since I did not know about that, I took a day off from work and went to Rotterdam by train.

Centraal Station

When I stepped into Rotterdam, (more accurately, when I stepped outside the train station), I was greeted with the amazing architecture of the “Centraal Station”, which acted as a trailer of the different architectural styles that I would be seeing.

The letters of “Centraal Station” is the original letters from the original building in 1957.

Markthal

I find Markthal to be the best attraction of Rotterdam, provided how I enjoy eating good food very, very much. There are all kinds of food from all cultures, and the one shop that I found which has really good Turkish food is The Mantı.

Due to the huge artwork on the ceiling by MVRDV, it is called the Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam, but I find that a bit overexaggerated.

Cube Houses

Near Markthal, there are unique looking houses which look like cubes.

These houses were built by Piet Blom, who wanted to design tree-like houses inside a city. There is one house that is also a museum, so I went inside to see how the houses feel from inside. I only paid €3 for entrance, but I believe it was well worth the price.

The inside is quite spacious with 100m² of living space, and the view of the other houses is also nice.

I was wondering if you can actually buy one of these houses, and that’s when I saw one that is recently sold!

Watertaxi

I also really wanted to go on a ride on a Watertaxi, so I booked one and went to the Euromast. It only costed me €4,50, and it was definitely worth the experience!