Brienenoordeiland
Wild river island of tidal creeks, nettle fields and grazing Highland cattle beneath a motorway bridge.
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This guide to Brienenoordeiland in Rotterdam follows Arnoud Willem van Brienen, an Amsterdam merchant, baron and royal chamberlain who bought fishing rights on the New Meuse in eighteen forty-seven and got an island thrown in. It moves between a tied vote in the Dutch parliament in eighteen forty-eight and the salmon nets on this muddy patch of river. Best heard on the path near the tidal creek under the bridge.
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