Picture of the Day

I'm hoping to get something posted every day and should at least get a picture up on days like today when I'm short on time. I have so many pictures and try to take at least one picture a day. Today's picture is from one of my visits today located in Oude Noord, north of the centrum of Rotterdam, we live south. I remembered that last week the list of the top 20 "achterstandswijk", meaning disadvantaged urban area, in Netherlands was released. Oude Noord was #4, worst in Rotterdam, which garnered 8 areas on the list, topping all other places in the country. We live in an achterstandswijk but our's didn't make the top 20, which means ours is further down the list for getting money. Besides income, employment levels, and crime, they also consider the housing conditions and for that I think we should be in the top 20, though there is some newer which is probably what put Oude Noord so far ahead because nothing but a small store area appears new.

Today's picture from Noord Singel, a border of Oude Noord, shows one way to make it easy for people to find your house number.





P.S. It did start out nice and sunny the first half of the day.:)