Den Haag, Netherlands Part 2 - Giving the beach another try and more wandering

The morning after our disaster of a trip to the beach I said okay, why don't we give this beach thing another try since it is early and not too hot yet. It was MUCH better than the day prior

Giant hotel on the beach

Signs so you know where your stuff it

We still didn't stay that long at the beach as it was just okay

Statues outside the theatre

Can't tell me what to do!

Art downtown

A urinal in the middle of the park - perfect...

Old Ministry of Justice

Mauritshuis Museum

The Knights' Hall

Fountain in Binnenhof

Water by the government buildings

Prison gate museum

Fancy vegan treats at More Pastry

Taking a break outside More

With a brownie

And a berry tart - delicious!

Noordeinde Palace

Modrian is everywhere!

Taking a break in the Palace Gardens

With fun art

Lunch at Quinta Verde, which I just looked up and they are now closed permanently :( This was super tasty!

Our hotel on the left

Waiting for our dinner foods at Vegetarian Snackbar

Milkshake

Snack plate - 3 croquettes, 3 nuggets, 2 falafel, 2 kibbuhling

And a burger with salad and fries - so tasty! We tried to get back here to try more things, but alas we did not have enough time

Can't tell Raymond what to do either!

After dinner we headed down to the Peace Palace

This was really cool - it was a peace thing and each country of the world is represented by a different stone around the edge

They had a sign with labels for the countries so you could see what they were. I've never seen anything like that before

Sun setting at the palace

Sunset over the park across from our hotel. All in all a much better day than the day prior!

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