d.g. visits!

hot on the heels of v.k.'s visit, d.g. was in town. well he was in amsterdam, passing through the netherlands in the middle of his holiday to london. he was persuaded to visit me in ye olde haguee. i picked him up at den haag HS station and we wandered around town. first stop: herring. i have photographs of d.g. and his herring. i abstained, mainly because herring + early in the day = weird rumbles in my gut. actually herring + any time of day = weird rumbles. but especially so early. we wandered past historic hague monuments (most of which i don't know anything about) and walked down to denneweg for lunch. grabbed a salad and "burger" at cafe dendy. (burger was alright, but not really the burger experience i was craving).

post-lunch, we hit the escher museum. maurits cornelis (m.c.) escher was born in leeuwarden, the netherlands. d.g. revealed that, as an undergrad, he was the proud displayer of many iconic works of art by escher. seems to have been a universal undergraduate decor scheme. i forget the name of that group that would come to campus at ubc and sell posters, but they had a bunch of escher prints. the highlight of the escher museum, however, was birdman!!



ah, birdman. so creepy, so weird. so amusing.

post-museum, we ambled back to my place, stopping at bagel & beans for a coffee to-go (a rare treat in the hague: it's nigh impossible to find places that offer stuff "to-go"). d.g. had to be back in amsterdam for dinner, so we booted it back to my place and then went two doors down to "de paas" for drinks. delicious.



& then, a few specialty beers later, d.g. had to head back to amsterdam. & my whirlwind long weekend of visitors was over. boo.