largest harbor in all of Europe and the fourth largest in the world. We started out by taking a driving tour of the area. Sadly though today we didn't have very good weather.
Europoort has a huge oil refinery area.
While we were taking our tour of the port when we were crossing one of the channels the bridge was up on a
draw bridge. It was different than most drawbridges because the road didn't become vertical, it just went straight up horizontally. It was cool though and we saw a bunch of ships go under.
I really liked this sign that I saw. :)
Europoort also has a large chemical area. Later we took a tour of one of the plants that makes propylene oxide and the process that they go through to make it.
Europoort still needs more room so what do the Dutch do, reclaim land from the North Sea. There is already a section of Europoort that has been made in the North Sea, Maasvlakte 1 and now they are creating Maasvlakte 2. Here are some pictures from the air that show the progress over the last 9 years, I think.
And today was Matt and my 6 month wedding anniversary. So we went down to this small little restaurant in the town that we are staying in and had some really good food. The entire menu was in Dutch, and even though we know some Dutch we don't know that much. So the waitress translated it all for us. I had steak (of course) and Matt had veil, and we also had a glass of wine. It was a great night.
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