Photo Ops in Delft

Feeling restless after a week in the Hague, we ventured this Sunday to Delft -- all of a twenty minute tram ride away. Indeed, Delft is so close to -- and so much prettier than -- the Hague, Rick Steves recommends that tourists camp out in Delft and only venture into the Hague for short periods of time.

To be honest, Delft's postcard-perfect beauty was rather lost on me: after only a week in the Netherlands, I might already be canal'd out. But I did get the obligatory photo with Hugo Grotius, father of international law:

Other famous Delftians include Vermeer, who spent his whole life in Delft (though none of his paintings currently reside there), and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who invented the microscope and discovered bacteria. Coincidentally, Leeuwenhoek and Vermeer were born the same year, but Leeuwenhoek lived more than twice as long - which just goes to show, we should all be scientists (or at least, driven by our curiousity).

Another View of Delft, and Grotius