Delft
December 12th. A Saturday in Amsterdam, cold and blustery, so we decide to take a 45 minute train journey to Delft. Delft is small and utterly charming. It has many old heritage buildings and they look lovely. There is hardly a car to be seen, almost all of the traffic is foot-traffic or bicycle. Delft makes blue and white pottery known as Delftware but this not what we saw. We saw the small canals with ducks swimming. We walked over the little bridges linking one side of the canal with another. We went to the market. No stuff especially for the tourists here, it was a food market for the locals by the locals with fruit, vegetables and huge rounds of cheeses. I saw some fruit and had never seen before and purchase some very small red berries on a vine like tomatoes but the berry had a more transparent skin. A taste test (quite tart), and I have decided they are probably cranberries.
Delft is cold today. Freezing. Snow can’t be far away. It’s so cold that it felt positively warm when we came back into Amsterdam. I was so glad of my gloves and hat, even if it does make me look like a Russian spy.
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