🏙️🥾 Rotterdam Pride & Park (3.5 + 7 km) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Pride hikers! ✨

It’s time to put on your walking shoes and get your Pride on once more this season!

We’re combining the Rotterdam Pride March with a fabulous stroll through the green lung of the city - the Kralingse Plas. 🌳🫁🏙️
We’ll meet at Rotterdam Centraal, where we’ll kick things off with speeches and other Pride activities before joining the 3.5 km march towards Willemsplein. Expect rainbow energy, queer joy, protest vibes and, of course, plenty of fabulousness along the way. ✊🏳️‍🌈
Once we arrive at Willemsplein, we have some time to check out the performances and get some lunch, before
we’ll hop on public transport for the second part of our adventure: a roughly 7 km walk around the lake and through the Kralingse Bos.
And what a contrast it is: within minutes, we’ll swap the Pride crowds and city streets for foresty landscapes and wooden boardwalks floating over the water. 🌲🌊We’ll circle the Kralingse Plas, take in its beautiful views and pass the historic windmills De Ster and De Lelie ⭐🌸
But the real drama? The skyline. From the lake, Rotterdam’s skyscrapers rise behind the trees and water, creating a slightly surreal Central Park-meets-Rotterdam moment. 🏙️✨
So come march, wander, chat, connect and enjoy some queer nature time in the middle of the city. Whether you’re joining us for the Pride march, the hike, or the full gay agenda: everyone is welcome! 💖🥾🏳️‍⚧️

Schedule
10:15 Gather at Utrecht Centraal
10:33 Train to Rotterdam Centraal, arrival at 11:11
11:30 Pride speeches at Rotterdam Centraal
12:00 Start Pride March
13:00 End point at Willemsplein
13:00 - 14:00 Get lunch and experience stage program at Willemsplein
14:00 - Making our way to starting point of park walk (Voorschoterlaan)
14:30 - Start walk around Kralingse Plas
16:30 - End walk and return to Rotterdam Centraal, with possible drinks

Practical info
📏 Distance: 3.5km (march) + 7km (park walk)
📍 Start: Rotterdam Centraal station, with option to meet us at Utrecht Centraal
🏁 End: Rotterdam Centraal
🥾 Level: easy – mostly paved roads in urban environment, short distance
🤝 Meeting point: Utrecht C at 10:15, Rotterdam C at 11:30
♿ Wheelchair friendly

Pack your:
🍱 snacks (lunch option at Pride Rotterdam festival grounds)
🚰 water bottle
🧥 rain coat/umbrella
☀️ sun screen
🏳️‍🌈 anything else you might need

❌ If you signed up and cannot make it in the end, please cancel your RSVP attendance so we know how many people will show up and someone else can take your place instead.

💗 A voluntary donation helps us to keep the Meetup group up and running :) you can either pay via a Tikkie or in cash after we finish the hike.

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