#ATLILYSGOESROTTERDAM

#Atlilysgoesrotterdam

Hi loves,

A new travel blogpost, this time I didn’t go that far from home. I went to Rotterdam in the Netherlands for about 2 days. I’ll give you a short update to show you what I did back there.

First of all I’m going to show you my travel outfit. As you may know, or not know the weather isn’t pretty nice in Rotterdam right now, in the daytime it’s about 10 degrees (and when I was there, there was literally no sunshine).

Travel outfit

- Pants: Zara

- Shoes: Zara

- Black turtle neck sweather: Zara

- Belt: Zara

- Suede cap: H&M

- Bag: Cmclaramae

DAY I

I was staying at the Mainport hotel Rotterdam which is a 5-star hotel. The hotel has an incredible view over the water and canals of Rotterdam (which is btw such a modern city). All new buildings and such pretty architecture.

https://www.mainporthotel.com/

Mainport design hotel

Markthal

We went straight to the ‘Markthal’ which is a covered market where you can buy any type of food you like. From the typical Netherland food as a croquet to Chinese food, donuts, tapas,… Everything you dream off. I tried a special kind of croquet with mozzarella, pesto and basilicum mayo.

https://www.markthal.nl/

Markthal

Cube houses

After eating my snack, we (my parents and me) went straight to the famous ‘kubuswoningen’ or ‘Cube houses’. The title says enough I think. (Check the picture bellow). Yes, people actually live here, crazy right?!

Cube houses

We arrived in the afternoon, so we were really hungry. So we found such a cool restaurant called ‘Pierre’, they serve French food. We took the sea bass fish with pesto and fries with truffle mayo and my mom took the coq au vin with of course some fries.

Pierre

Food: +9

Kindness: +10 (The staff was super friendly, he recommend us to go, to the Food factory)

Instagram hotspot: +7,5

Recommend? Yes!

https://pierrerotterdam.nl/

Pierre

For dinner we went to the restaurant of our hotel.

DAY II

The next day we went exploring a little bit around Rotterdam. Shopping, museum visiting, seeking for art in the streets like graffiti walls,…

Luchtsingel

That’s how we found about ‘luchsingel’, all different kind of bridges around in Rotterdam, it is in the neighborhood of the station. The bridges are painted in almost fluo yellow which is picture perfect for Instagram. In the walls of the bridges where names of people who are in love engraved, something like they do in Paris with the locks.

At the luchtsingel is also a super famous 'Instagram wall', it's a just a normal wall with graffiti on it but the pink makes it all pretty and worth posing for.

Luchtsingel

Instagram famous wall

Luchtsingel

Watertaxi

After that we went with the watertaxi (I know right, I’m not even kidding) to the other side of the water. It's around 4 euros for one person to go to one side of the water, if you want to go back you have to call the company and pay again.

Watertaxi

Fenix food factory

We grabbed some lunch at the Fenix food factory. It’s kind of the same concept as in the ‘markthal’ but with less foodshops and the atmosphere is pretty cozy over there.

We shared some plates, 5 different cheeses, a plate with tapas from Morocco, and some delicious bread from Jordy’s Bakery in combo with some hot tea because we were freezing.

http://www.fenixfoodfactory.nl/