Off to Rotterdam, a very busy port town in South Holland. We learned that during WWII the city was bombed destroying almost all of the city centre. So the citizens decided to rebuild, but instead of old Dutch style they chose to modernize now their city looks very different from the other towns we’ve seen so far.
Most of the buildings are normal high rise type structures, but these ‘Cube Houses’ are a concept of modern living that looks really odd, with a cube shape on its corner and sitting up above the road passing underneath.
Our next stop of the day was Delft, a lovely university town that is famous for being the home and resting place of William of Orange, a Dutch resistance fighter that led the Battle of Delft and important for securing the new Dutch Republic.
The town is also very well known for being the home of blue and white patterns in porcelain, called Royal Delft Pottery. We visited the factory and got to watch workers making new pottery. It’s a very interesting process. We decided to pretend we were Delft porcelain, do you think anyone will notice?
The Hague was close by, so we decided to stop in and see what was going on at the United Nations International Court of Justice. Such excitement, just after we got there the police were closing the road and a military defence bus pulled in – suspicious!
We had to move on, so we decided to check out the Mauritshuis Museum. What a surprise, we found Johannesburg Vermeer’s famous painting, The Girl with a Pearl Earring. We wondered what she’s looking at, what do you think?
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