WHAT TO SEE AND DO
Take a bike tour ONE Dutch tradition that Rotterdam has fully embraced is cycling. Bike and Bite is a superb way to see, and taste, the city in one four-hour tour (£50 pp). Guides will fill you till you burst with treats ranging from cheese and port at FoodHallen market to delicious banana bread and coffee at the rooftop allotment and cafée, Op Het Dak. bikeandbite.nl
See the street art DOWNLOAD the free Rewriters app for an audio guide route to the best street art in the city, which covers psychedelia by Ramon Martins and an amazing ‘Rotterdam 2115’ mural depicting a future city reclaimed by nature. rewriters010.nl Modernism at its best ROTTERDAM was forward-thinking even before its post-war rebuild. Sonneveld House (entry £12) is a leading example of the Thirties Nieuwe Bouwen school of Modernism. Acres of tiles, rotary telephones and huge balconies are a Thirties domestic vision of the future. sonneveldhouse.com ÷ Cube houses THE arch-modernist Cube Houses, built to resemble trees in a forest, look like a Hunter S. Thompson-meets-Lewis Carroll dreamscape of yellow houses tilted at 45-degree angles. It’s free to wander beneath these extraordinary buildings, and if you want to stay in one there’s a hostel with bunk beds. B&B from £69.50 ( stayokay.com)