On Friday I went to visit Cor en Riet in Nesselande, a new neighborhood in Rotterdam. The trip from Zoetermeer to Nesselande is proof dat public transportation is not always the best way to go. According to the GPS the trip by car should take 24 minutes. But it is kind of like Maine, "You can't get there from here . . ." I took the Randstad Rail to Den Haag Centraal - The train from Den Haag Centraal to Schiedam Centraal. Schiedam Centraal is both a train station and Rotterdam Metro Station. I was to take the Metro from Schiedam all the way to Nesselande. The Metro only accepts the OV Passes. I had researched it on the internet. I should be able to buy one way OV pass . . . Problem: the one machine that sells the passes is out of passes. it works fine for adding money to your account, but no passes. Luckily I did find a Metro Employee, who helped me. I was to go on the train to the next stop and buy the pass there. She used her pass to get me on the platform. At the next stop I need a pass to get of the platform, because the vending machines are outside. All I had to do was find a Metro Employee. I should have used the emergency phone, but I did not see it as an emergency. How hard should it be to find an employee? All and all it took a little less than 3 hours to do the trip, Cor and Riet have a beautiful senior citizen apartment, in a building called "de Kristal", less than 5 minute walk from the Metro. Lucky for me my cousin John and his wife Anita drove me back to Zoetermeer at night after we visited their daughter Tessa in Schiedam for her birthday. No pictures of this day because I left the camera in Zoetermeer.

The following Tuesday Bert, Violet and I went for another visit. This time I brought the camera. Behind their building is a lot of construction. Too bad it is going to take away some of the view they have of the water. I tried to make one panoramic picture of the five pictures I took. Makes you appreciate what Google does with Google Earth. I'm saving for a 360 degree camera set-up!

While checking my email I found this picture on their computer. Cor used to be the Captain on one of these tugboats . . . They have it as their Desktop Background. I quickly emailed a copy of the file to myself.