From the NAI we walk through the park, alongside the gorgeous Museum Boijmans van Beuningen,  then across this bridge,  and a little bit more until the Kunsthal comes into full view:  Rem Koolhaas, the mind behind the fantastic Prada stores in NYC and Los Angeles as well as the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vegas, designed the Kunsthal Rotterdam. …
Work Hard, Play Harder
 There’s a local expression here loosely translated to “you make money in Rotterdam, divide it at the Hague, and spend it in Amsterdam.” Whereas Amsterdam is the cultural epicenter and the Hague more or less a government seat of the Netherlands, Rotterdam is this country’s no-nonsense, worker-bee kind of city. It’s my kind of town. But on this day, when there’s a summer …