Saturday, 9 May 2015

Day off in Leiden...

We woke to the news of the election Conservative win. Young Matthew is off to The Hague where he works as a an EU war crimes lawyer, currently dealing with a former non-elected African dictator, while we spent a less stressful day wandering the ancient cobbles of old central Leiden. Piles of bikes chained to railings and lamposts everywhere.


A walk on the round castle rampart gives a view of tiled roofs and church towers. The Pilgrim Museum is a house on a cobbled square restored and furnished in the era when occupied by the Pilgrim Fathers before they set of to the UK and USA. The big central windmill is not working today as the wind is in the East and they don't want the hassle of turning the top around to face the wind in case it changes again. We manage to find a coffee shop that is not a drug smoking business and enjoy apple cake and fine Rwandan coffee.

Location:Leiden