Walking with giants in The Hague

The Hague is the capital of Holland, except it isn’t, despite having all the government and ministry buildings. It is also the only city to ever begin with ‘The”, an arrogant statement in my opinion and one highly unjustified for a city that has very little in it except shops and really good looking people.

Pronunciation

They inexplicably insist on pronouncing the name of the city ‘den chaaaach’ which lead to confusion on my arrival, partly due to wondering if I was in the right place and partly because I didn’t understand why everyone kept spitting at me.

Architecture

The buildings here are mostly quaint and small…

People

…However, the people here are all fucking GIANTS. It’s as if they have made their buildings small on purpose, just to feel even bigger by comparison. I don’t even know how they fit into them, its like trying to squeeze Kobe Bryant into a dolls house. Even the Asian people are tall. I have nearly been stepped on three times.

Country

This country is also very small, whereby the inter-city trains are quicker than the inner-city trams. It took me longer to get from my friend’s fairly central house to the train station in The Hague than it did from there to Leiden, another city entirely. After a year spent doing 18 hour buses in South America, this is pretty appealing.

As you probably guessed, my next stop was Leiden.