Photo: Steve White
Steve White and his wife spent 10 enriching days in up-and-coming Georgia in 2019 and liked it so much that in 2020 they planned a couple of weeks in neighbouring Armenia. But then The Darkness fell upon the world, and they ended up sleeping in a larder in a 17th century lock keepers cottage in the ex-fishing port of Maassluis, a distant suburb of Rotterdam.
We hit upon Maassluis as an unlikely substitute for Yerevan after my Dutch wife read a book by well known Dutch writer and one time Maassluis resident, Maarten ‘t Hart, and said it sounded cute.