We took the day off from the hustle and bustle of apartment searching and Den Haag chores and did some sight seeing in Delft. Delft is approximately 30 minutes from The Hague by tram, 20 minutes by intercity train. It is a very cute town, well worth visiting. Some of the guidebooks recommend staying there and visiting The Hague by day. I can certainly see that.
Delft, besides being the namesake of a famous, impressionistic Johannes Vermeer painting, is Vermeer's birthplace and deathplace. There is a museum dedicated to him (without any of his approx. 33 attributed paintings) and a few "Vermeer painted here" markers clustered in the Catholic part of town. Besides some really impressive churches/cathedrals that have all sorts of the House of Orange buried in them, there are also a number of lively, open air markets.
I posted some of the pictures in Picasa. The day was much sunnier that the pictures evoke. You'll see some pictures of the square and the statue of Hugo de Groot (aka Hugo the great). He is the godfather of international law. That was news to me but it seems appropriate that it is here in The Netherlands, where there is so much international lawyering.
I'll try to post some more pictures once we get the desktop up and running.
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