Girl with a Pearl Earring

Monday is Delft day.

 

 

 Some of the Erasmus lads and I have been venturing around the country again in order to become more immersed in the culture/make the most of our exchange yada yada. We decided to go sunnying about in Delft, a small town about twenty mins north of Rotterdam.

 

Sam, Laura, and I explored the places that Chevalier mentions in her novel 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' which provided a lot more purpose to our outing. This is what we found:

Grachten, street 'Oude Langendijk', the Market Square with a large title in the middle, the Oude Kerk

Admittedly, not all that much. The rest of the time that we weren't finding places that fiction's based upon, we were eating cheese, drinking coffee, and souvenir shopping for some Delftware china and postcards for my Nana Susan. We had a jolly afternoon seeing of Delft and learnt a little too. Next time it would be handy to pick up some more on the Dutch monarchy's history though, and Vermeer himself - but you've always got to leave something for when you come back.