Yesterday I went to Den Haag with four nice girls, two French and two Greeks.

We took the train but we carried the bikes in it, so we could easily reach the seacoast village of Scheveningen once in Den Haag. There we could walked along one of the most popular beaches in The Netherlands when, as it was written on the guide, the thermometer rises above 20ºC. However, yesterday it wasn’t that warm and it was windy, but we didn’t complaint at all because we expected to have a rainy day. So, despite the wind, we could enjoy the views from De Pier, a boulevard and a tower standing over the sea.

Afterwards we biked back to the center of Den Haag, where we saw the Vredespaleis (Peace Palace), which houses the International Court of Justice, and the Binnenhof, which houses the Dutch Staten-Generaal (Parliament) and the Dutch Government. Reading the guide we learned that the official name of Den Haag is: ’s-Gravenhage, which means something like “the count’s wood”.

In the way back to AMS we’re almost fined because we hadn’t payed the especial bike ticket you are supposed to pay when carrying bikes inside the train. If only they informed about it! This last minute fright just made the day more memorable.

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