Spent the morning in Leiden at the Lakenhal art museum and the city's rijksmuseum, which has an amazing collection of Etruscan Greek Roman and Egyptian artifacts. They even have a complete Egyptian burial temple, a gift from Anwar Sadat for helping deal with floods in Egypt. After lunch we sought out the hard-to-find little American Pilgrim Museum. The pilgrims had taken refuge in Holland but wore out there welcome here and set sail for New England from Leiden. The museum is in a house built in 1365 and furnished with pieces that old. The curator is an American who has lived here for at least 40 years, a real character who knows about all there is to know about the Pilgrims. (pic: museum room, 14th century floor, fireplace and wall)
We took a train to Den Haag to have dinner with old friends from our business days. While there we visited the Mauritshuis, a 200 year old art museum with a collection of the very top Dutch artists from their golden age of the 17th century. We saw Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring and his landscape View of Delft. An especially fun dinner with Tom and Susie, and then an easy train ride "home". (pics: Mauritshuis and pond)
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