Description

This is Leuvehaven.

This is Metrolijn D train to De Akkers. The next station is Wilhelminaplein.
This is Metrolijn D train to Rotterdam Centraal. The next station is Beurs.

This is Metrolijn E train to Slinge. The next station is Wilhelminaplein.
This is Metrolijn E train to Den Haag Centraal. The next station is Beurs.

The Erasmus Bridge is a short walk away.

Nearby is the Maritime Museum Rotterdam and the Harbour Museum. One of the major attractions was the 19th-century ironclad ram ship HNLMS Buffel, which was moored outside of the museum. The ship was moved to Hellevoetsluis in 2013 (due to cost cuts). My grandfather was lodged on the ship when he was in the navy in 1940.

"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first... The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: "It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war." Then the few will shout even louder... Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it... Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
     -- Mark Twain

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