Post by Ella. Tomorrow (Wednesday) we fly off to Copenhagen leaving our old friends behind. We closed out the afternoon and evening with a trip to Delft (15 min by train), enjoying a glass of wine (non-alcoholic beer for Grubb) in Esther’s garden, followed by a tasty black rice / vegetable / shrimp casserole prepared…
Day: May 2, 2023
Hendrik revives
post by Grubb Our friend Hendrik met us on the terrace outside Pavlov’s Bar and Grill in Den Haag this afternoon. Hendrik van Leeuwen is an artist (hendrikvanleeuwen.nl) who teaches painting and reviews art for numerous publications. Along with his wife Gina, he was to have accompanied us to the Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum on Sunday,…
Dutch Takeout
Post by Grubb. This morning I thought I’d go next door to the coffee shop/bakery and bring back a cappuccino (my third) to enjoy on the patio outside the back of our apartment. Again, to demonstrate the trusting nature of this inner-city neighborhood, I was allowed to take the ceramic cup of cappuccino with me since…
Broodje or bust
Post by Grubb. Remembering our trip here in 2016, I vowed not leave Den Haag without having a herring Broodje. The herring stand was outside the courtyard of the Mauritshuis, the museum we visited back in ‘16. I had a brief notion that we might drop in the Mauritshuis and check out a few masterpieces to see…
Grubb gets his herring
Post by Ella. The herring stand we remembered from our last visit to Den Haag at which we got broodjes (herring in a roll with your choice of onions and/or mustard) and a seagull swooped in and nearly got a nip of my herring, was still there. Grubb couldn’t resist. And there was a grey…
Rotterdam
Post by Ella. As you can tell by the latest several posts, we spent the day in Rotterdam. It is a vibrant, busy city with unique architecture. we were here for the first time on our last trip to the Netherlands and decided we really enjoyed the place. Rotterdam’s history begins in 1270, when a dam…