- “Who’s coming to Den Haag? There’s a party tonight in the beach and my friend can host us”

It was Saturday afternoon when I heard that in the “Spanish room”; the weather was not bad, I didn’t have any plan besides studying and the idea sounded good… and I’m leaving in two weeks!

At 17:11h we took the train to Den Haag from Centraal Station, we’re seven Spanish ready to have fun, although we realized that the weather wouldn’t be as nice as we expected. Once there we met the guy who has been “Erasmusing” in Den Haag for the last five months and who offered to his friends to host us. After leaving our bags in his room, spending some time in his dorm and meeting his pet (a rabbit), we headed to Scheveningen; on the way we had fish and chips. Once in the beach we had a drink laying on the sand despite it was chilly, and after the first lightning we got into a kind of beach club where the Erasmus students were having a party.

I woke up and I had a shower while my three trip mates (the other three took the train back after the party) were still sleeping; at noon I had left the dorm and I was walking through the city center. When I was in Den Haag almost two months ago I missed something: a visit to the Mauritshuis. There I stand for a while in front the pictures I wanted to see: “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Tulp“, the eye-catching “View of Delft” and the naive look of “The girl with a pearl earring“.

After that I waited for my trip mates at the train station; they turned up with an unexpected company: the rabbit, from now on named Albert “Manchas”.

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