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Witte de Withstraat and Museumpark, Rotterdam – part 2
I(Chris) spent a day in Rotterdam and walked from the Maritime Museum to the Museumpark along the street Witte de Withstraat. Part 1 covers the shops, bars and restaurants on Witte de Withstraat. Museumpark is an urban landscaped park located between the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Westersingel, Westzeedijk and the complex of the Erasmus medical center…
Witte de Withstraat and Museumpark, Rotterdam – part 1
I(Chris) spent a day in Rotterdam after a meeting in The Hague, which is only a short train ride away. Rotterdam is actively marketing itself as a popular destination for international visitors, an alternative to Amsterdam. It was built around the river Rotte in 1270 and grew rapidly over the centuries but in 1940, during…
Donner Books, Rotterdam
Another bookstore … this time in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This one barely survived. Donner is located on Coolsingel, in a former bank building, all public areas on one floor. This bookstore and the pride of Rotterdam was swallowed up by a big chain store that unfortunately went bankrupt in 2014. The Top 10 fictions and…
Oldest bookstore in the World – Livraria Bertrand, Lisbon
Continuing with my tour of the world’s bookstores … Livraria Bertrand at Rua Garrett 73 in Lisbon is the oldest and largest bookstore chain in Portugal. Since it was launched in 1732, the Bertrand Bookstore stayed open, and has thus entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest bookstore in the world still in operation. The…
