You know you are in The Hague’s Chinatown when even the road signs are translated into Chinese:
I’m assuming it says what the sign in Dutch says – that the street is closed off. Technically The Hague’s Chinatown is the biggest in the country but it is still effectively one long street, or maybe two at most. Nothing like the Chinatowns in other countries.
In other news, the two day NATO summit has just ended in The Hague. The most important thing I have learned while being required to work from home is that eventually, the sounds of the helicopters flying overhead start to sound like background noise. Mostly…
But it was a much larger event than the 2014 nuclear summit (when we also had to work from home). This time there were a lot more road closures, including of highways between Schiphol Airport and The Hague. The main road next to the World Forum, where the event took place, has been closed for more than two months because they needed to build temporary buildings on top of the road to house all of the delegations and journalists. The government recommended that anyone in the Randstad area (The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam) work from home this entire week. Extinction Rebellion took advantage and decided to demonstrate again. You get the idea…
But somehow, nothing crazy happened and everyone is on the way back home. So that’s good.
- Dutch PM: NATO Summit outcome a “great achievement”; Trump meets with Schoof, Wilders from nltimes.nl
- Pictures and text from regio15.nl (in Dutch): Monday, Tuesday and today.
- Photos from The Hague as NATO leaders including Donald Trump gather for historic summit from apnews.nom
- King as host of the NATO dinner: where is Trump sitting and what is on the menu? (in Dutch) from omroepwest.nl
Hopefully tomorrow is a return to normalcy! (Mostly.)
Life in the Hague 