Netherlands Travel Pictures

Woerden, Leiden, Haarlem

Some pictures of a 3-day road trip through parts of the Netherlands in July 2004.

Part 1 on this page: Woerden, Leiden, Haarlem
Part 2: Marken, Enkhuizen, Franeker, Zutphen
Part 3: Pictures of Amsterdam from an earlier trip

Woerden

Neo-Gothic church entrance, 19th century

Part of the Castle of Woerden

Lady looking down at the entrance of the old townhouse of Woerden

Leiden

Drawbridge over one of the canals

The Burcht, built on a small hill as a fortress in the 11th century

Nice quaint hats for these chimneys

Jean Peijnhof, former almshouse

The Stadthuis

This bike has endured a bit of the elements

Aristolochia Grandiflora, the largest flower in the world, in the Hortus Botanicus, the botanical gardens of Leiden. The flower smells of rotting meat, attracting flies for it's pollination

The entrance of the "Sweating Room" in the administrative building of Leiden University, where students used to tremble with anxienty before their exams. Graduates get to sign their names on the walls, and there are thousands of them scrawled all over

Winston Churchill placed his signature on the right wall of the Sweating Room in 1946

The left wall of the Sweating Room
 

Haarlem

HAARLEM WARNING!

Car parking fees are generously high and parking fines even more so. We received two payment orders of about 170 Euros, from Euro Parking Collection in England, 19 months after we'd been there, for alledgedly "not paying parking fees". It seems Haarlem police have outsourced their fine collection to this company in England. They threatened to raise the fee by another 65 Euros if the amount was not paid promptly. We did not pay.

 

Huge chimneys off Grote Markt

Bakenesserkerk tower

A drawbridge at dusk

Door

Wind vane

Haarlem canal

Shower cabin near one of the canals

Grotekerk van St Bavo

Inside St Bavo

One of the largest organs in the world with more than 5000 pipes, played by Mozart when he was 10, and Handel, the Mñller organ in St Bavo

The dog chaser in St Bavo, who chased out pests straying into the church

The Vleeshaal, former meat market of Haarlem

View onto Grote Markt

Entrance of the Frans Hals Museum, a former almshouse where he spent his final years

One of the many rooms inside the Frans Hals museum

"Short Anna" Street in Haarlem

On Korte Anna street

Idylic Haarlem

One of the many bikes around

The courtyard of Provinierhuis

Another backstreet

Continue on to Part 2: Marken, Enkhuizen, Franeker, Zutphen