Delft

A warm and sun-drenched Saturday, a historic town, an antique market and an interesting church. What more can one want on a Saturday in July, when everybody seems carefree and happy, the market stalls along the picturesque canals overflowing with bric-a-brac and perhaps – one never knows – with that one treasure one has been hoping to find for ages.

 The slanting tower of the Old Church reflected in one of the canals

 Lack of space makes for unusual terraces

Before the leisurely browse coffee on a barge, brightly decorated with flowering pot plants, and later, with sore feet, eating big and juicy cherries from a paper bag on a bench along the quayside of one of those canals. Ending in visiting an unusual Victorian type of Roman Catholic Church, very colourfully decorated and proud of its well-known pipe organ. Could life be any better?

The tower of the town hall

 Some market stalls around the Old Church along the canal

 The tower of the New Church in the Market Square

Even the newly built railway station, a glass monstrosity blocking the view of the typical old station building, can't spoil my mood. I wonder if Delft will look better when all is ready and the former train viaduct has been removed. Unlike Rotterdam this glass block seems totally out of place, as if it has fallen from the sky by accident and can’t possibly be (re)moved. One more eyesore I think.

 Bikes, canals and flowers

Some more inspiring pictures

The pipe organ of the Maria van Jesse Church