Den haag, Netherlands Travel Blogs

Day trip to The Hague
Jun 26, 2005 (5 photos)

Hi everybody! For the months of April, May and June we had an abundance of visitors! This was great fun, but when they all left and we had are first weekend along in 8 weeks we decided to do something fun for the two of us. We were going to go to ...

North Sea Jazz and Amersfoort
Jul 19, 2004 (7 photos)

... bit about our "adventures." NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL Since 1976 the North Sea Jazz Festival has been a 3 day festival held in Den Haag (The Hague). There are over 16 stages of performers in the Netherlands Congress Center (so inside, not out) with ...

Old Friends
Jul 9, 2006 (12 photos)

... a little social gathering rather than any sort of serious travelling. In fact we spent most of our time just wandering around Den Haag, Delft, and Leiden. Making the most of the weather and the outside cafes for lounging around. That's the life. I ...

im still alive
Oct 11, 2005

so the internet has been harder to come by than i thought it would be but i'll try to get some pictures on here a sap. ok so what ive been doing. london. london is the best place ever!!!! but i did pull a leslie(wich is what were going to call it) i ...

home of the pearl earring girl!
Sep 17, 2006 (2 photos)

i was excited to see the escher museum with so many of his sketches and prints...

Cycling the dune
Nov 13, 2006 (5 photos)

... Arnhem to stay at Ernest in Overbetuwe (Randwijk). Today though the public transport were on strike so I needed to walk from Scheveningen to Den Haag and did so but while pulling my thumb up as well a car brought me to the train station. It was a great ...

Sinterklaas Party at Lorraine's
Dec 5, 2008 (27 photos)

More coming soon...

Jumpin' at the Control Tower
May 20, 2006

... hoped-for fluency and breadth of conversation never materialized, so what I did was play a lot of records: Control Tower Playlist Den Haag, May 21, 2006 [01] Sun Ra & His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra: Rocket Number Nine (2:54) [02] Yusef ...

Den Haag
Jun 14, 2006 (3 photos)

Den Haag home to several European Political institutions including the International Court of Justice... As well as some architectual marvels...

Holland vs America
Aug 25, 2005 (2 photos)

... people and also not as necessary as in the US to get a job. College is WAY cheaper here though. If you are from the Netherlands, Leiden University is only $2,000 a year!! 10. WEATHER- It rains ALL the time here! We have been here for a week now and ...

Haag We Are
Aug 10, 2007

Entry to follow (I AM kind of travelling here, you know?). Thanks for your patience. Check back later!

Check Please!
Aug 26, 2005

One more quick story about the differences between the US and the Netherlands.... The first couple of times we ate at restaurants here we were very disappointed with our service! The food was always great, but after being served, the waiter would never ...

Sonic Youth in Den Haag
Dec 16, 2006

... the masses of drunken louts having their fun on a crowded floor and beat it outdoors, where I took a nice long walk around Den Haag and ended up where I wanted to be, at a comfortable little coffeeshop nearby, the Waterworld, where I could purchase three ...

Sun Ra Touches Down in Den Haag
Apr 1, 2006 (3 photos)

... get some work done. This was balanced by having a few thousand laughs with the inestimable Bob Fogelnest, who stopped over from Den Haag where he defends international criminals at the behest of the Court from time to time. He's meeting a potential client ...

We Made It!!!!
Aug 18, 2005

We made it safely to the Netherlands!!! There were a few bumps in the road, but all in all the trip went smoothly. We got delayed in Ohare (suprise, suprise....), so then we MISSED our flight out of Dublin. We were a little nervous at first, but there ...

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Den Haag
Mar 26, 2007

... at a sympathetic church in Den Haag on Sunday, March 25th. According to Jun's literature, the Permanent People's Tribunal in Den Haag had agreed to investigate the situation in the Philippines for the second time. Founded in June 1979 in Italy by law ...

I'm a Nanny!
Sep 1, 2005 (9 photos)

Today was my second full day of taking care of the twins. So far, so good! Dominiuqe and Florine will be 4 months on September 3rd. They are very happy and content babies, but I guess they were not always like this. They had a very difficult time with ...

Lost and Found in Den Haag...
Jun 28, 2007 (12 photos)

A day in Den Haag, to explore Ngaire and Damon's new locale.   Ngaire and Jen left Brian to find some great new trades and set off up the street to go window shopping.  Their neighbourhood has an eclectic collection of up-market clothes, ...

Below Sea Level
Jun 26, 2007 (10 photos)

... It seemed very neat & organized from above, but we arrived into nothing so organised as a queue at passport control in Den Haag - just a conglomeration of people converging on just a couple of open booths.   Ngaire was still there when we were ...

Much More Quiet Than Amsterdam
Jul 6, 2007 (3 photos)

We spent a day in The Hague, which is a quick 50 minutes from Amsterdam by train. Its a cute town, though it seemed a bit sleepy. The Mauritshuis is a really nice building, architecturally, and houses some beautiful paintings from The Golden Era, ...

Back to Rotterdam and bike tips
May 26, 2009 (5 photos)

... is overwhelming. The Dutch certaintly aren't as environmentally friendly as I once thought.  In fact, every square inch of the Netherlands has been developed at one point of time. Every park, beach, forest, etc has been carefully crafted by man. It ...

Bulb Fields and The Hague
Mar 23, 2007 (9 photos)

... through the cities of Haarlem, Lisse, Leiden, and the Hague. We stopped at the famous Bulb Fields south of Haarlem... The Netherlands is the source for 2/3rd of the world's fresh flowers (did you know???).  Here you can see where the flowers are ...

The Beach
May 24, 2009 (3 photos)

... , back and forth. Finally, with my  bike in running order I biked off into the horizon. Literary.  I biked until I reached the beach. Den Haag (The Hague) is only about 16km away from Delft. It makes for a nice bike ride of around 40 minutes.

Den Haag
May 22, 2007

Den Haag

Den Haag
Aug 6, 2006

second city

home, sweet home, kind of
Feb 21, 2008

i went to holland to visit my friend rosa and to basically stay at hers and rest after the manic few months iv had of non stop travellin. i also intended to go to the gym and detox a little bit but that never happened at all and drunk far more there than ...

Train-ing across the country - Antwerp, Den Haag
May 18, 2005

... saved half for dinner, go the cost savings :) We were very proud of ourselves. We wandered back to the train station and went on to Den Haag. When ariving at the other end, we were a bit lost, as all we had was the address of the place we were heading to ...

Field Trip!
Mar 21, 2008

            Our second field trip was to Den Haag, Netherlands. It is a small town, with a big city attitude. The International Criminal Court is located in Den Haag and the Morris Museum, which houses ...

Day trip
Sep 24, 2009 (1 photos)

It has been a while since I have had access to a computer. I visited Den Haag because that is where the country's parliament etc is. More importantly though I went and saw the gallery there, (when I remember what it is called I will write it down. Anyway ...

Eindelijk mijn Rijbewijs
Apr 27, 2006 (1 photos)

Na een hele tijd dan, heb ik nu eindelijk mijn motorrijbewijs, kan ik meteen lekker blazen in Indonesie