The Den Haag station is about an hour away from Amsterdam Central. The unique thing we encountered is that the railways charge an additional euro if you purchase a ticket from an agent. We queued up for 20 mins and still had to pay an extra euro. Damn!
It is indeed a great feeling to meet old friends after a long gap. Recalling old times, especially the Engg College days, is great fun. We chatted for a while and decided we could spend all day doing it & we were better off moving our asses while we chatted.
We took the train again to go to Delft which is the origin of blue ceramic pottery which Holland is famous for. We moved about in the factory to see the process of making hand painted ceramic vases, plates, tiles etc. There are entire paintings (Ex: Rembrant's Night Watch) which have been copied onto a huge collage of tiles. The entire process right from the moulding, casting, painting, firing & cooling is quite a time consuming process. Hand painted Delftware is very expensive, infact horribly expensive.We had a lazy & longish lunch where we spoke more than we ate :)
From there we headed back to Den Haag to go to Madurodam which has a beautiful landscape which showcases the best of Holland in a miniature size. We spent nearly 3 hours looking around and it was fun. They have the world largest miniature railway which runs across the entire landscape. Most of the miniatures look exactly like the originals and its good fun to spot some of the landmarks, especially if you have already been to the original one.After a long day we parted ways and wished we had more hours to spend. Once we got to Amsterdam, we sat down for what would be our first actual "candle light" dinner. We had wine, roast chicken/steak & ice cream. With just a day left before our holiday would end, the ambience was apt for us to relax, chat and recount the fun moments of the holiday.
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