On October 6th, 2010, NEW LAND FOR THE NETHERLANDS…

  landscape

safety outfit and bird blind at Port of Rotterdam

…is being created in the North Sea to extend the Port of Rotterdam, and today I had a tour of the mind-blowing vastness of this operation – not to be completed until 2030 – where I was also able to view a blind for bird-watching in this industrial landscape, and dress in an exciting fluorescent safety costume which I really wanted to wear to the airport later this evening. (check out the website, and the view from above before the new construction)