Here are some photos from the snow that covered The Hague last week Wednesday. The entire week was quite wintery. Yesterday the low (overnight) temperature was -5C/23F, but to be fair the northern and eastern sides of the Netherlands had it worse, with up to 6 inches of snow last week and -10C/14F elsewhere. But with The Hague being so close to the coast, we don’t see numbers like that.
‘Damage is piling up’: has the Netherlands forgotten how to cope with snow? from The Guardian
Wednesday was quite pretty to be out and about, though. If you went early enough, the snow was still fresh, with the gorgeous crunch under your boots. You also didn’t have to worry about ice, since the snow was still too fresh and not pressed down by everyone walking on it.
Here are some of the photos I took that day:
The red scooter reminds me of the photo I took of the red scooter at Haagse Bluf in 2017.
Above, by The Sting clothing store, not far from the Grote Kerk.
Looking left of the previous image, towards Venestraat, a shopping street (marked by the stork lights).
Cafe seats outside of ‘t Goude Hooft, a restaurant and hotel.
Looking towards the old city hall (the red door is part of it), where Marco and I got married back in September 2013.
By the restaurant By Ami, which coincidentally was advertising for their Burlesque night, which is probably much more mild than you might think, as this is a restaurant after all. But I thought it was a nice juxtaposition to have the snow-covered summery trees next to an advertisement with a woman dancing in what is basically a one piece swimsuit.
No blog post is complete or Dutch enough without a bicycle, and in this case a fully snow-covered one.
Since The Hague is so close to the sea the snow was gone by Thursday. Yesterday was the coldest day of the week, as I mentioned, but today is already back up to 6C/43F, a more normal temperature for a Dutch winter.
Life in the Hague 