May 8, 2009 Den Haag Part 2 of 3

So on our way to Den Haag, Saviya finally saw her first Dutch windmill. We have seen some of the modern windmill, but these older mills still exist and many are still in use.

Here is the view out of our hotel room in Den Haag Centrum

As you see the right side of the city (from this perspective) is very modern, but the left side is quite a piece of history. Parts of the city date back over 700 years, and many royal buildings stand from the late 1500's.

So we got a great hotel, right in the heart of town. Here is the monster mirror that greets you as you get off the elevator.

Nice place...Saviya really liked the fact that each side of the bed had its own blankets so that we cold sleep together but didn't have to share.
So check out the living space...if you notice, that's the shower there in the living room looking out towards the bed/windows...It does have a curtain.. that is operated from the outside

Saviya had to shower with her clothes on, didn't trust me not to take a pic...just kiddin :)

So we headed out after a short afternoon break. Saviya was feelin more on the ball...

Bikes everywhere here i tell ya...this one is pretty sweet, found out later it was 800euro

Pretty square just opening up for the evening after some mad rainfall.

We went past the Queen again at night

Looked very nice at night, and the flag was down...the lady was chillin

Saviya liked this art shop, had these interesting female statues, most with busty but small upper bodies, with round thick butts and legs. Very sexy by an artist named Bos

So we got directions to a steak house from some locals whom themselves doubted our ability to find it. One guys said, go down this way for like 10 minutes than ask someone....Well the other guy gave us more specifics and off we went. After a bit of walkin, we opted for a snackbar, which is like deciding on a Starbucks after walking past 30 of them. So we ordered a few items including a Turkish pizza with chicken. Wow, this snackbar was awesome. Lots of food for cheap prices and nice guys. Really enjoyed it, hope more places have a Turkish pizza like that. Its like thing pizza that they roll up with sauteed chicken breast with cheese and other things...yum..2 blocks of walking and we found the steak house we were looking for..but were happy with our dinner choice at that point.

We walked back to Centrum and passed the Binnenhof again, looked very nice at night all lit up. Here is one I took

This one I 'borrowed' but looks nice!

We walked into the Binnenhof entrance and into the open Square. Here are some vids of the square, including the beautiful Ridderzaal, or Knights Hall which is the one that looks like a church.