Friday, May 6, 2011

Day 44 - The Hague - Where is this place??

Can't believe that I'm going on another weekend trip today... I had just arrived back from my Easter trip a few days ago and now I'm back at the airport... flying to another country for the weekend. Seriously!! I have no clue what was going on in my mind at the time I was booking these flights... make the most of all my weekends this year? cheap flights? the friends I'm going with?

Oh well, I guess it is too late to back out now. Back to the airport today but this time its to City Airport. Never been to this airport before but coming from work... gosh, it is so convenient!! It is a small airport but the location is not bad. Too bad i don't live on the east side to take advantage of it.

We are going to Netherlands but not Amsterdam. Even though we fly into Amsterdam but the friend that we are visiting, lives in The Hague.

'The Hague'... ??? Where is this city? Have never heard of it... I quickly did a search on Wikitravel to see what this city is all about. The 3rd largest city in Netherlands. 1st - Amsterdam and 2nd - Rotterdam. It's situated on the west of Netherlands. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands lives and works in The Hague. All foreign embassies and government ministries are located in the city. It is one of the major cities of the UN.

We arrived in The Hague in the evening. The ride from the airport to the city only took half an hour or so. M came finished work and met us at the Central station. We quickly checked in into our hotel and then headed over to M's house to visit M's wife, P and the little kid, Alex!!

After our visit, we went out for dinner at a turkish restaurant and went bar hopping for some drinks. The weather was just about right, not too hot and not too cold. We stood outside for most of the time... the streets were quite small and narrow... one particular area we walked around reminded me of London... around Bond St (heading towards Green Park) The city had a nice relaxing feel to it. Everyone was quite laid back unlike London were things can seem to be so rushed and busy.

Before heading back to the hotel for the night, M wanted to take us to one last place that he highly recommends: "Crazy Pianos". They have amazing pianoists that perform live each night with the band and they can play anything from classical sing-alongs to crazy American rock and roll. People can write down any songs on a serviette and throw it up onto the stage and they will choose which songs to play. It's quite amazing cuz the pianoists are all ages and they know every song you can think of. Because it is live, they jam it up and change some of the lyrics around!! It's pretty cool. Everyone there are all different ages and the atmosphere is amazing cuz everyone is singing along, dancing and just having a good time!! We all got pretty tired by that time of the night (morning) so we headed by to our hotel... luckily it was only a 5 min walk back! Phew...

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