So Arjen. Where are we going?
Hotel America. -Are we going to America?
Yea. -Cool
It's a hotel. -Oh, it's a hotel.
And, eh...
I guess you can sleep there.
Interesting. I never heard of this hotel.
How do hotels work, sir. Explain this magic to me.
You know, you check in, you sleep, you go away. What are you, stupid?
I- I guess. Sorry.
Oh, you want me to tell something? -Yea.
What are we looking it. -Well, it's a...
...it's a hotel.
And people sleep here. -Whoa.
What is this hotel you speak of.
I never heard of such a thing.
That's has something to do with-
people...
...migrating, 'merica, something like that.
Oh, interesting.
Are we just going to stand here?
I guess there's also a nice overview of the city, or like the other side of town.
Oh yea, it's beautiful. -Yup.
Sure can see- the, eh...
...buildings here... -Lots of buildings, and the Euromast and the...
...and the Meuse river... -And the dock.
And the harbor. Yea, sure can see the harbor from here.
There's a seagul over there.
Well, let's go.
Where's the seagul! Holy shit!
No, no seagul.
Em, we're filming.
You, you are. Oh. -Eh...
Yea, kinda. -Yea, um.
Well, you can see the Euromast there.
Where?
Uh, there.
Okay. -And, eh...
Yea, it sure is skyline.
And eh, there's Erasmus bridge there.
We'll be walking down Erasmus because you guys like that, I suppose.
And then we can go, y'know, do other things.
That sure is a river.
God, I love rivers.
Amazing shot.
So Arjen, tell us about this war on water. -Uh, well, um...
Water's bad, so we kinda fight water by, um...
...building dikes. Yup. -You build dikes.
We build dikes. -How do you build a dike?
Uh, I guess with sand.
Wow -Also, we got like a little thingy down there...
...it's like a really big construction... thingy...
...it's- it's really big.
It keeps the water out.
Cool.
Something like Maasss....slui, I dunno. I didn't look it up.
Eh, let's walk. We're wasting time.
Yea, we have better things to do.
So this is the Erasmus bridge, huh? -Yup.
It's the bridge.
Weren't there supposed to be some kind of construction flaw with this bridge? -Eh yea.
When it's windy, it swings...
It swings. That's bad.
Yup. Rotterdam is, eh...
...on the Meuse river.
It's a beautiful city. I mean just look at it.
It's beautiful. -Yea, I guess so.
I guess we can go over there.
Euromast. -Yup.
It is the Euromast. -Oh.
Yup. Euromast.
It's very tall...
...and eh, you can go up there...
...and em...
...I guess you can see things, up there.
Oh- but we're not actually going up there. -Eh, I guess we can...
...if you really want to. -But that's going to cost money, so...
Yea.
I suppose you can- -I like holding onto money...
...because I'm Dutch. So.
Well, you go be, and be Scrooge. Whatever.
Okay, let's move on then.
Alright, so em...
...this here is...
...historic Delfshaven.
It's old.
Yep.
It's, um, still pre-World War, I guess.
Which World War? -And you can, eh...
Both. -There you can have a drink...
And eh... there's also something with the- em- Mayflower...
American- eh- Europeans going to America or something.
Pilgrims. Yea.
I want a sandwich. -There's a windmill.
It's a windmill. -Yep, yep.
That's the only one of its kind in the Netherlands. It's unique.
So, yea.
It's um... very exciting.
Hey, hey yea.
And these are the cube houses...
...and they're made of cubes...
...and em...
...people live in 'em.
And em, it's supposed to be a forest or something. I dunno.
And eh, people come here and they actually pay money to...
well, see the inside, I guess.
Yea...
There's, eh... cubes.
Let's just go.
And eh...
...this is the White House...
...or "het Witte Huis", as we call it.
It's very tall.
Or at least it used to be.
And eh...
It's got like steel.
Yup.
One of the first things with steel in it. So it can be very tall.
Very accurate description.
I dunno know about that. But eh, yea...
...it's, eh, it's tall...
...and old...
...like seventeen-hundreds or something.
Thank you so much for this tour. Lemme give you a hug.