Utrecht

We were a bit sad to leave Rotterdam because it was so great, but after a fairly sleepless night thanks to drunk and rowdy guys in the dorm room (guess you get what you pay for with the cheaper dorm rooms hehe), it was also good to move on.

Unfortunately the weather packed in so we weren't able to see Utrecht in the sunshine, but it was lovely nonetheless.

Its about a 40min train ride from Rotterdam. I think it has a funny name. Like "Insect". When we first arrived at about 10am the whole place was completely closed up and there was noone on the streets. We have found that this is typical of the Netherlands, and not much is really open until 10am at the very earliest. Even in Belgium people were up before that! Weird nocturnal europeans....

Anyways we wandered into the city centre and came across this really awesome cut flower display, they were all plugged into the walls of a medieval courtyard.

Mish catching a wiff

Textured wallpaper!!!

This is the Dom tower (the flower display was just to the right of the tower). It's the highest church tower in the Netherlands apparently. We couldn't climb it - because it wasn't open yet! haha.

The city centre of Utrecht. Its quite pretty really. Lots of canals.

Mish at the Academiegebouw (Academy building) of the University of Utrecht.

We really just had a quick poke around the place, but what we saw of it was nice :)