 1 Rotterdam - The Pencil
|  2 Cubic houses in Rotterdam.
|  3 Apparently they are a pain to live in...
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|  5 Rotterdam - Erasmus bridge
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|  8 Pronounce "hond in the hot." Make sure to drag your "h"s for at least a second.
|  9 Amsterdam - Our Lord in the Attic, a camouflaged Catholic church.
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 10 The church spans the attics of three houses.
|  11 Catholic worship was prohibited, but tolerated as long as the churches were not recognizable from the outside.
|  12 St. Peter - I think.
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 13 Confessional.
|  14 Kinda gives new meaning to the term "closet catholic."
|  15 What they did here is clear. The question is how they managed in such a cramped space.
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|  17 Beach soccer in front of Nieuwe Kerk.
|  18 Nieuwe Kerk, looking up.
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 19 Stained glass.
|  20 Magna Plaza, the former central post office (now a shopping center).
|  21 Lofts.
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 22 This picture is perfectly straight (and I am no Magritte).
|  23 Oude Kerk.
|  24 Oude Kerk, with a CGI look.
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 25 World Press Photo exhibition inside Oude Kerk.
|  26 Green transportation.
|  27 Rijksmuseum.
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 28 Chilling out on the canals.
|  29 The Golden Bend - Amsterdam's premier real estate.
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 31 Spring showers.
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|  33 The custom of leaving the curtains always open creates some weird scenes.
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|  35 I bet I could be an architect here.
|  36 Kinderdijk - these eighteenth century windmills were used to pump water out of low-lying areas.
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|  39 Utrecht - the lone picture I liked!
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