As always the Church is fascinating, immense and quite
beautiful. It was built between 1449 and
1525 right behind the dam that cut off the River Rotte from the River Meuse.
The church has always been austere which fitted how the population earned its
money. The effects of the reformation also
made for the austerity. In 1572 it was
stripped of the sculptures customary in catholic churches. Nearly all the walls are slanting as it was
built on very boggy ground. During the
bombing on May 14 1944, it was almost destroyed and the tower badly
damaged. The tower was restored from
1947 to 1962 and the church building from 1952 to 1968. Three are three organs,
we were very fortunate as while we were there we had the privilege of hearing a
concert taking place. After this we continued on our walk ran into two other
cruisers who were looking for the schuttle bus, we said we are walking back so
they walked back with us. We were totally exhausted, had a sleep and only got
up had a shower and went down for dinner.
After dinner I came up and finished all my blogs, re read all my emails
and were asleep in no time. Another busy
day and we are in Copenhagen
Wednesday 17 July 2013
13 July 2013 Rotterdam
Today we sailed into the port
of Rotterdam , one of the biggest ports
in Europe , it takes about 2 and half hours to
sail in and we saw about two oil rigs as we passed thru. The port is virtually in the middle of the
city, we just left the ship and walked over the bridge into the city, great
when you can do this. We did not have a
tour booked for today so did a city walk ourselves. The city had been completely flattened in
WWII very little remaining so the opportunity was there to build anew and it is
a lovely city, very modern. There is a Maritime Museum
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