Rotterdam's weird houses - how do people live in them?
Holland is an interesting and unusual country. There is so much in it. And the Keukenhof park with tulips, and Amsterdam with the red light district, and the Kinderdijk with mills. And it also has Rotterdam - a real city of the future.
Rotterdam is a big, famous and advanced city. If there are any novelties in the world, then they will certainly be there. For example, an electric car - a car with electric current charging - we saw for the first time in this city.
One of the largest ports in the world is located in Rotterdam. Very organized, technologically advanced, capable of receiving especially large ships. There are very few of these on the globe.
Another feature of Rotterdam is the strange, unusual houses. Very strange! Very unusual!
Actually, to be honest, it didn’t come from a good life. Rotterdam was completely, almost to the ground, destroyed during the bombing in World War II. And when, after its completion, the restoration of the city began, it was decided that there was no point in doing everything exactly as it was. Let the city be reborn in a completely new form. And so it happened.
The most famous of Rotterdam's weird houses are the cubic houses. They really look like children's cubes, placed on one of the faces. You look at them with open mouth and think: how do people live in such a shape-shifter? How do they sit, eat, sleep? How do they move? Very strange dwellings!
However, cubic houses are not only living quarters. They also have offices. And even a hostel hotel. Can you imagine how interesting it is to live in such an unusual house?! Well, or at least just look into it.
On this curiosity of tourists, some locals make a successful business on this. For a small amount of money, they invite you to look into their house or apartment. Of course, travelers are happy to agree. And - o-la-la! - the reality turns out to be not at all as expected. Inside the cube houses are the most common rooms and premises. And their floor is normal, and the walls, and the ceiling. And the furniture does not collapse anywhere. And all their strange, unusual appearance is only an outer shell.
And in Rotterdam there is a pencil house, an arch house, a triangular train station and a TV tower called the Euromast with an elevator, an observation deck and a hotel consisting of only one single room per 100 meters height.
It seems to me that it is very interesting - lying in bed admiring the huge city sparkling with lights. What do you think? Would you like to live in such a strange place?
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