Zwaanshals
Riverside shopping street along a bend of the Rotte, lined with boutiques, cafés and facade murals.
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This guide to the Zwaanshals in Rotterdam follows Leen Jansen, born in nineteen thirty on a houseboat on the Rotte and raised in working-class Crooswijk, who made his living in the harbour before soldiers pulled him into a few fights. It travels with him to the Helsinki Olympics of nineteen fifty-two and a quarter-final against a young American. Best heard walking along the shopfronts toward the corner of Woelwijkstraat.
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