Saturday, June 06, 2009

Day 12: Delft & Rotterdam, Netherlands

After breakfast we took the buses to Delft, where we toured Porceleijne Fles - one of the few remaining 17th century factories still producing entirely handmade Delftware. It was really cool to see all the steps that are taken to create these extremely expensive pieces of porcelain art.
We decided not to buy anything because it didn’t seem worth it. This vase was 12,500 euro...
Guess how much this piece cost?

Anyway, after our tour of the porcelain factory we took the buses back to Rotterdam, where they gave us a quick bus tour of the city. Rotterdam is basically just like any city you’d find in the states, nothing really special or anything. There was a McDonalds on every other street corner it seemed.
Once we got back on the boat we had lunch, during which time the boat sailed to Dordrecht. There were a lot of windmills along the way, but not much other than that. Once we arrived in Dordrecht some of the passengers deboarded the ship for an optional windmill excursion that didn’t really sound that great, so Amber and I just chilled on the boat checking emails and such.
We ate a very bland dinner and then fell asleep watching Burn After Reading.

Delft - 4
Rotterdam - 2.5


Answer: 1,200,000 euro

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