Day 89

Day 89
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Amsterdam/Breda/Rotterdam, Netherlands

We had breakfast at the hostel and then packed up our things to go to the train station. I said goodbye to Kent and Cheddar who went to Hanover and I waited around for a train to Rotterdam. The train ended up being a sneltrain, a slow commuter train but because everything in the Netherlands is so close anyways it didn’t matter too much. I decided to go past Rotterdam to Breda, a small town with an Erick van Egeraat project in it. I wondered around the town for a while and sketched the project. There was a huge open park and plaza there that was so big that it could probably hold three times the population of the town. It was dotted around the edges with new housing developments which were pretty cool. There was also a huge theater/casino combo with a large undulating roof over it. I took the train back to Rotterdam and found some hostels at the tourist information office. My hostel turned out to be right next to an Erick van Egeraat hotel renovation, as well as right next to a museum, which had a Lebbeus Woods sculpture hanging off the side of it. It got dark early and I walked around the city at night for a while, before getting a falafel pita for dinner and going back to the hostel. At the hostel I had a few beers and read my book in the bar for a few hours. I looked at a newspaper and realized that Tool was playing there that night, but it was probably almost over because it was so late. It was too bad I didn’t know earlier, Josh would have been jealous if I had gone.