Den Haag and Delft

We awoke and spent the morning eating burritos which Julie had made for dinner and chatting with Jim. It felt awesome to sleep in and not worry about catching trains and such. After discussing with Jim what we should do we decided to catch the tram to Delft, a nearby medieval type city. Arriving in Delft was a nice surprise.. completely off the typical american backpacker route we had seemed to be following. We found a bookstore and I bought Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows for 3 Euro and am super excited to finally have time to read it!

So many bikes in Delft!

After getting many looks for eating a salad on a bench in the street, we checked out the two churches in town. I almost bailed on my face because the floor has all these fancy inscriptions on the floor and uneven tiles and Gillian yelled at me to be careful, then did the same thing herself moments later.

Inside the Old Church

At the 'New Church' we took Jim's advice and walked up the tower, and as soon as we entered the stairwell we regretted our decision to do to.

The New Church

The stairs were much worse then the stairs at Sagrada Familia, being old and crumbly cement, and then old, slanted wood planks which I felt were going to break at any moment. The spirals were again tiny and after hitting my head on the stairs above I increasingly got more and more claustrophobic. Gillian then smashed her head on another low stair hard enough to instantly start crying, and later she was picking pieces of cement out of her hair.

We made it to the top of the tower and out onto this really narrow balcony where the wind was so crazy we felt very unstable... but the views of the city were fantastic so we felt it was worth it.

We lurked at the top for a really long time, neither of us wanting to get back into the tight spiral staircase.

Carefully going back down the stairs.

We headed back to Den Haag and had a beer at the square as the sun went down. Being Monday most things were closed so we wandered around the town a bit then headed back to Jim and Julies and skyped our parents.

I apologize for the lack of photos.. I've been shooting in RAW this whole time and didn't realize I would need my canon software to publish them. I'm now going to attempt to take a few on my point and shoot for the blog, and then put my other photos in once we get back to Edinburgh on the 21st! So check back!