April 2023
This trip took place as part of the Benelux birthday eurotour, during which I visited:
Sinsheim - Karlsruhe - Ausfahrt - Luxembourg - Namur - Liège - Brussels - Dunkirk - Antwerp - Leidschendam - The Hague
We lived in an Airbnb in the city of Leidschendam. Surprisingly, from this city there was a tram running straight to the center of The Hague. Unfortunately, I didn't understand how the transport system works, whether all city transport is also intercity, etc. To figure it out, you need to live there - there was no clear info on the internet :(
Anyway, for 8 euros you can buy a ticket for the whole day (costs me almost a month in Prague) and get to the very center of The Hague, which we did
Actually, trams
Underground version, pretending to be metro
The Hague immediately becomes crowded
Street signs
They don't accept cash. Thank God, an adequate country
The famous Czech "Albert" came from right here
Tram tracks to Narnia
The very center
You can walk around all of The Hague on foot, the city is well suited for this
You can also by bike
In the Chinese quarter you can acquire facial
Chinese quarter - is like two streets
But at the entrance - beauty
And in the windows
If I'm asked to describe The Hague with one photo, I'll choose this one
The city - brown and bicycle
What made me specifically happy: a girl was riding a bike on the bike lane. A truck parked and occupied it. The girl was giving shit to the driver for real. Here feminism is giving shit to assholes, not shoving unsolicited tits in everyone's eyes
There are canals
There are parks with 10 km/h speed limit
There are fashionable grandpas
In short, beauty
New buildings also exist
Here we got fries for four with "special sauce from the chef" for 5.5 euros
Already at home I noticed the lanterns in the middle of the road
Walking around The Hague was pure pleasure
In the second hour of walking around The Hague another car driver didn't make it through one lane on his green, and by Prague traditions didn't give a fuck about the crosswalk and tried to drive through on red between walking pedestrians. A Dutch I'm-a-mother gave the dude such shit that I understood - women of the Netherlands get a medal with respect from me.
In 4 hours in The Hague I saw so much deserved direct hatred toward asshole drivers from women that I was seriously impressed. In 10 years of life in Czechia I saw less, because the country still has a sense of humiliation like "has a car, means he's alpha". Similar minded people are also in France, where it's also customary to piss on arrogant drivers.
In short, if you want a medal from me for true feminism, learn from living Dutch and French women, not from fucking idiots on YouTube
Bridge
Just a regular street
End of the city
There's the coast
Unexpected, I forgot that The Hague is by the sea
In short, time to move
Flowers
All streets are paved with this
That's The Hague, in short
Conclusions about the city: need to move here. In all my travel experience it's hard to find a city that would be just straight up better.