After a year here, we finally set foot to the nearest city which is only a 20 minutes drive away that is Rotterdam. It is a port city, in fact the largest in Europe and was the world's busiest port from 1962 to 2004, when it was overtaken by Singapore and later by Shanghai.The Christmas shopping season is on now. There are ample seasonal decorations around the shops and along the street to cheer up the shoppers - shop more, shop more, till you drop! Also this is the time to see a very Dutch tradition on the street - Sinterklaas, a Dutch version of Santa Claus - a man with a long white beard wearing a red bishop's dress and hat together with his mischievous helpers with black faces and colourful outfits called Black Petes or Zwarte Pieten in Dutch.
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