Ten things there is nothing better than

Here are some of the things that are making my visit to Delft and excursion to The Hague memorable:

Breakfast that includes fresh-baked bread, cheese, fresh-squeezed orange juice, fresh fruit, and a fried egg from a local farm
Saturday market in Delft, a delightful town laced with canals
Walking through parts of Delft that are normally mobbed with tourists early in the morning before there is a soul around
Visiting one of the best small art museums anywhere, the Mauritshuis in The Hague
Seeing a painting of Delft by its most famous resident, Johannes Vermeer, that is so beautiful and so brilliantly painted that it may actually be better than the real thing
Being in that Delft during an exhibit in a local museum that brings one of Vermeer’s paintings home to the place he lived and worked
Lunch of bread and cheese purchased from vendors at the local market and consumed on a bench overlooking a canal with hopeful ducks lingering nearby
Finding not one, not two, but three beautiful vases to add to your collection, even if one of them is so exquisite that you buy it even though it is by far the most expensive vase to enter your collection
Walking through Delft in the early evening to find small out-of-the-way sights you missed earlier
Enjoying Indonesian food for dinner without thinking about how brutally the Dutch dealt with the local people there when they colonized it

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