We took a morning train from Antwerp to Rotterdam. After off loading our backpacks at the hostel, we decided to head for the famous Keukenhof Garden. After all, it was a pretty nice day to see some flowers, indeed a few millions of flower bulbs! We dropped by a mini market for some can-food, water and snacks and off we go to the Rotterdam Centraal.
All trains going to Amsterdam were packed with cheerful youngsters, excited, noisy, and half drunk. The very day that we arrived in the Netherlands, it was the Queen's Day! Though we had no intention to revisit Amsterdam and exhausted ourselves in drinking, we went with our plan and get off at Leiden. After over 1/2 hour standing in a cramped exit vestibule on the train, we were relieved to find ourselves sitting on a bus heading to the garden.
Keukenhof is the largest flower garden in the world, displaying several million of flower bulbs each year from late March to early May only. This was our first time and probably our last time that we would come to Keukenhof. We enjoyed our time wandering around the flower beds, taking pictures of the fist-size bulbs, until late afternoon.
After dinner, we took a walk from our hostel in Rotterdam, reaching as far as the concrete Euromast Tower.
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