13/41 But as I lay awake from daybreak to a civilised hour for two mornings in the Hotel Weimar at Rotterdam--prevented from sleeping by the pile-driving for the hotel extension--I thought of the apologue of the pot and the kettle. When I was at Amsterdam in 1897, the water beside Damrak extended much farther towards the Dam than it does now. Where now is the new Bourse was then shipping. But the new Bourse looks stable enough to-day. As to its architectural charms, opinions differ. |