So as we said our goodbyes to Berlin, we left feeling sad, happy and tired, real tired! Berlin has this knack of never letting you get enough sleep, there is so much to do.
Anyway we left for the 700+km drive on high spirits (well Redbull and Chocolate!) I'm the only driver and I wanted to get this over and done with in one go, if possible..
As the Hollies said "The road is long, With many a winding turn" well this road was unbelievably long and with NO winding turn, just a long straight road. A LONG STRAIGHT ROAD!
After 11 hours driving after leaving Berlin we finally arrive at the Hostel at 3am to check in. Head.Pillow.Sleep!
We all awoke to a lovely breakfast in Room Rotterdam, one of the famous hostels around Europe list.
This hostel has a great feel to it, an old building (hard to find one of these in Rotterdam after the bombing in WW2) it has been beautiful restored and transferred into a hostel by the two owners Mirjam and Monique who themselves were travelers at one point.
The staff here are a mix of Rotterdam locals and international travelers. Its a well run place with Annick managing the day to day things.
We were luckily enough to find ourselves staying at the hostel when they were celebrating there 9th anniversary of opening up the hostel with a fancy dress theme of 70's and obviously orange. This also coincided with the Netherlands V Costa Rica, Quarter Final World Cup match. Double Celebration!!
The party went down a storm, with all the staff and helpers making an effort to get dressed up and the owners put on a lovely spread of typical Dutch food!
The party got even better when The Boys in orange beat Costa Rica on penalties, needless to say the party went on in to the wee hours!
There is one main character at the hostel that I have not mentioned yet, and that is Lexie..
This in the words of the hostel "Our sweet, enthusiastic and very persuasive four-legged team member Lexie is guarding the hostel and taking care of happiness and entertainment."
Everybody loves Lexie so we thought that we would make her the main focus of the art.
When we were talking about what the hostel needed,we found out that because it was an old building on many floors, people were sometimes getting lost and not finding the kitchen and showers etc.
So we put the two things together and we made a stencil of Lexie pointing out the way!
We also redecorated one of the toilet signs to make it more fun and recognizable.
BEFORE AFTER
Over all this was a fun place to stay and you will always feel welcomed by the mix of workers, locals and obviously Lexie.
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