Rotterdam Netherlands

Rotterdam, Netherlands, is a town worth visiting in the summer. The harbor is so modern and so spectacular, that you will want to spend many hours on a bench, or on many of them, just looking at it.
Apart from the beautiful old buildings, you will also find there lots of futuristic ones.
The two very different styles makes Rotterdam a interesting place to pass through.

The people there, however, can put you in a bad mood.
From my arrival in the train station, I received a wrong information about the direction I had to take the tram to. Good somebody else, corrected it one station later.
I checked in at Room Hostel and asked the lady at the reception if it is possible for me to get a bed ar the ground level, because I have a health problem.
She explained to my that it is out of their hands to do this kind of arrangements, but I may be lucky being the second in the room.
And lucky I was.
I put my personal sheets on the bed and I slept like a child. My room mate was a very nice Polish men, looking for a job as gardener.
He was desperate not finding it, because his money were running out and he was no able to pay for the hostel more than three days.
He started looking for a cheep apartment, with no result. In the end, he told my that he can sleep with the rats, in the cold… Poor east-europeen man trying to work in a wealthy country.
The next day I visited part of Rotterdam and returned to the Hostel where I found my polish room maid doing the same like he did when I firs met him: searching frenetically the internet on his computer.

However, something was changed in the room. My sheets disappeared and on my bed I found a note: “Reserved for Mrs. …”
So, I asked what is all this about.
The men explained to my what happened:
A gay from the staff came in the room to do the cleaning. When he finished he said that in my bed should stay an old lady who have problems claiming on the bed from the top.
The polish men offered his bad, at the same level, saying that he doesn’t mind at all changing the beds, that he can even sleep on the floor if it is necessary.
The gay wouldn’t considered the option.
He took my personal sheets and placed the note on the bed.
With this story in my mind, I went to the reception, looking for explanations.

And they came: an old lady made a last minute reservation and she is to old to claim in a bed from the top.
O.K., but what about the bed my room mate offered, which is at the same level? And what about: “we can’t do arrangements about the bed” policy? I had the reservation made for one month and I requested the same favor like the old lady, from the same reasons.

The guy told my that he doesn’t know who was at the reception when I first came in, but they are doing favors for special cases, like this one.

Well, you will not do it on my expense!

I found my sheets, I took my bed back and this is the end of the story. However, Rotterdam Netherlands has its charm, though.