Den Haag; Sunday, 27 October, 2013

Overnight the clocks had gone back, and with them a significant change in the weather with the wind whipping round the windows of my 9th floor room.

After checking out and dropping my bags in the left luggage lockers at the station I headed out to the north of the city centre to Madurodam.

I spent several hours looking round the site, taking in the whole of the Netherlands in miniature.

I then wandered back into town and had a long walk around the sites of the city centre, before it was time to head back over to the station, and with the light starting to fade, grab my luggage and head back to Schiphol.

I had an early flight the following morning, and rather than having to get up at the crack of dawn and get to the airport from Den Haag, I’d decided to stay at an airport hotel. Even with the strong wind whipping round the courtesy bus bus-stop I didn’t realise quite how a significant decision that was going to be.

The bus dropped me off at the hotel and after checking in and dropping my stuff off, I had dinner in the hotel restaurant and then headed back for an early nights’ sleep.