Sorry I have gotten behind again but I have had a very busy March and you will see why!
On March 1st I went on a field study with my Present Day Dutch Society class to Den Haag (in english The Hague) which is not the capital but where the Dutch parliament is.Our professor wanted to take us to all of her favourite sites as well as show us the Dutch parliament since at that time we were learning about their political system. Started the day by taking a 45minute train then the first stop was visiting the parliament. Bit of an interesting concept they have for the design on the building. Was re-done in 1992 to attach the original building to the newer building. We were allowed to go sit in on a debate, which would have been very interesting had I understood what they were going on about!
Then we went to the Peace Palace, the Panoramic Museum and Mauritshuis Museum where I got to see The Girl with the Pearl Earring painting by Vermeer! Apparently they have closed the Museum or will be soon to do renovations and The Girl will be hiding for a couple years while that is being finished. Lucky timing for me! We also got to see the Royal Palace as the Netherlands has a Constitutional Monarchy and the current queen is Queen Beatrix. I always wondered why the colour orange was affiliated with the Netherlands since it is nowhere in their flag- I now know that the reason for orange is the royal family, the House of Orange- Nassau.
Ended the day by going to the beach! but brrrr it was not my kind of beach. Very foggy and COLD- but the area where the beach is would be lovely in warmer weather, hope to make a trip there in the coming months again.
Here are some photos!
The Prime Minister Mark Rutte's office
The famous view of The Hague
Museum!
Royal Palace
My cool friends and I outside the Peace Palace... haha we thought we were pretty clever.
can you see the ocean in the distance?
-XoXo
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