Den Haag 4: Feasting

Thimun Conference Day 3:  A really satisfying day.  Spent all morning working in the Approval Panel, along with several other teachers, engaged in correcting and approving various committee delegates' resolutions. It was very tiring - four hour focus on an feast of punctuation, grammar and formal layout  - but my halo was super shiny afterwards and my desire to help was satiated!  Then after lunch, colleague-chaperone Pelin and I walked (in the bitter cold) to the nearby Gemeente Museum Den Haag,  where as last year I spent nearly four hours emmersed in glorious visual feast including artworks by Holbein,  Rubens, Rembrandt, Schiele, Picasso, Braques, Kandinsky, and apparently,  the world's greatest collect of paintings by Piet Mondrian including "Victory Boogie Woogie" 1942-1944.   The building itself is very interesting too.  Art Deco and built in 1935 and designed by leading Dutch architect H.P. Berlage. One of the things that I am really enjoying about The Hague is the architecture - inside and out - it is all so beautifully elegant - and it is all so exquisitely maintained.  I also love, as I said before, the way the new complements the old.  The hours I have spent in the last three days walking around this city, one of the greatest joys is simply to look up.  

As if that wasn't enough satisfaction and joy for one day, in the evening we went to a Thai restaurant where dinner was extraordinarily delicious.  Green vegetable curry with coconut milk. Yum.


Bitterly, bitterly cold @ 3ºC or less with wind chill factor.  Bright but warmth-less sunshine briefly this morning with simultaneous hail stone shower for a few minutes.   Afternoon brief icy rain.  Painful to walk about, especially in to the wind.