Rotterdam

Have you ever been to Rotterdam? It's a beautiful place, but don't ever go there with a crash helmet on and start singing to yourself that Beautiful South song - especially if the only lyrics you know are "... this could be Rotterdam or anywhere, Liverpool or Rome..." over and over and over again - it will drive you freekin mental.

Rotterdam has some of the most amazing architecture and some of the most frustrating street layouts. Because there is so much waterway there, none of the road layouts are logical; If you want to get over there, you have to head over here etc.
It soon became apparent that despite our best efforts to plan a route last night, we were hopelessly incompetent. We had no idea where we were going and often simply relied as much as possible on keeping the sun in our eyes to ensure we were generally going east.
Scott had printed out some A3 sized (for the hard of seeing) route instructions but we rarely could make sense of the street names and it became a real pain in the ass to keep stopping and map checking. But as with everything in life, it all worked out eventually and we found ourselves on a nice road leading out of town. It was the wrong road but it nice.