We slept in this morning, finally checked out. We began our way to see the field of tulip flowers but only saw a few rows. Han said we were about a month and a half too late. Was happy to see any at all.Our special treat today was Madurodam. Han, like most Dutch kids, went there as a child and he knows how I am about miniature items.
The Park was established in 1952 as a war memorial for war hero and resistance fighter George Maduro, who died at the Dachau concentration camp on February 9, 1945. The parents of George Maduro provided the initial capital for Madurodam. It was founded to support charities.
It has the most amazing small replicas of old to new cities, canals, castles, trains, villages, cars, ships, churches, concert, city halls, airport, electric company, windmills, rivers, real trees and flowers and more than you can ever imagine. I was quite surprised by all the details and how interesting it was. I even paid one euro and a mini clog maker made me a pair of clogs and trucked them to where I was standing. Yes, it was so adorable. They have many interactive areas too and the biggest playground area that will make you wish to once again be a child.
It is a joyful little place to visit and I give it a two thumbs up.
After leaving there we proceeded to Den Haag (The Hague)
We ran around in circles trying to locate the Holiday Inn Express for at least one & half hours. It was getting ridiculous. The construction in the inner city is insane by the way. At least with running around, we were able to see much of the area without meaning to.
We saw a police car, asked them, they could not even explain “how” and just said, “follow us.” They escorted us and were very nice. Thank goodness because we would have probably never found it, as it was set back off any of the main roads and no signs. We had to pull into like a bat cave parking garage. The hotel is nice and right on a cozy town square with a statue of the “Father of the Netherlands”, William of Orange.
Our room is directly on street level and one of the windows was not tightly shut, so suddenly I smelled pot and so did Han. We made sure the windows were locked up after that.
We walked the square to choose a restaurant for dinner and decided upon Cafe Restaurant Luden.
Food was great and we were so tired though that afterwards, we immediately returned to the hotel room.
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