DELFT to DEN HAAG to DELFT : 30 kms

Wednesday 18th July, 2018.

Our original booking for Delft was for two nights' stay but we decided to stay for three nights.  Unfortunately, we weren't able to change our booking so we had to change hotels after the first night.  This was no big deal as we didn't have far to go but we couldn't check into the second hotel  until the afternoon so left our bags in their luggage room and rode to Den Haag, the city of peace and justice, and cyclists who rule the world and pedestrians with peripheral vision.

It was extremely busy there, we didn't go into the centre, just rode through the outskirts to the beach at Schivengen (nearly being knocked off the bikes by an enormous owl which flew across our path)

where we sat in the sunshine overlooking the ocean while eating a fish and chip lunch.  We spent a very pleasant couple of hours cycling along the promenade, walking along the pier,

watching bungy jumpers, zip liners, the giant ferris wheel

and hundreds of beach goers enjoying the gorgeous summer's day, before returning to Delft.

As it's still light here until at least 10pm, we had time to stroll around lovely Delft which has so many canals it's easy to get lost.  We first visited here in 1969 when we travelled through Europe on two small motorbikes......a long time ago and memories have faded a little so it's good to be back.