Kralingse Bos
Lakeside city forest raised on harbour mud, with oak woods, windmills and busy birdlife.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kralingse Bos in Rotterdam follows two schoolboys on a May morning in 1954, stopped by a policeman on their way to go birdwatching in what was then a very young wood. It reaches back to the 1920s, when harbour mud and the city's own household rubbish became a forest floor, and to the schoolchildren who planted its oaks. Best heard on a path beneath the oaks, with your ears open.
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