After a long week, I thought it a weekend getaway at the beach in Scheveningen would be a treat. The morning was spent with doing our first laundry and since it was our first time to try out the laundrette at the Dorus building, we practically spent an hour just looking at the spinning machine and almost 30 minutes of machine-drying. It would also be my birthday the next day so I had all reasons... plus...we at the Dorus dorm (just the building beside ISS) would also like to check out the accommodations of our fellow scholars at Gondelstraat. They were near the beach at Scheveningen, already outside of the Hague.
I had a different feel to the place. I don't know if surreal would be the right term. It was different from the ISS vicinity...while the ISS vicinity feels more sterile with its surrounding offices and shops, Scheveningen beach was more relaxed and sub-urbany... more like the other sub-urb parts of the Hague (which we accidentally toured by getting lost in the way to the Open Market, riding by way of Tram 6 earlier in the day).
It was a blast capturing the beach environs in the afternoon before our fellows would have offered us the prepared dinner. The Museum Beelden Aan Zee was the highlight of the suroy with its sculptures of fairy tale stories: Moby Dick, Hansel and Gretel, Gulliver, among others.
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