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And there was Delft! What a lovely city. Here is the "New Church", so called because it was just put up in the 15th century. It stands above the market square which we went to for a specific purpose: You see, according to recent legend, the President of the United States visited Delft, and had the essential poffertjes (little pancakes) right here on this square. We sought out the place of the President's poffertjes, and I, just like William Jefferson Clinton, ordered the strawberry poffertjes with whipped-cream.Here I am, posing in front of Clinton's picture, with my waiter (cousin actually of Clinton's waiter), proudly representing America as a consumer of Dutch cuisine.
Buried in the New Church, with a wonderful monument( under renovation), is Holland's founding father: William I, prince of Orange. Here you see an artist's rendering of the William's assassination and the nasty way his killer was then treated: First they broke his guns, then they burned up his hand, then they burned his body all over, and finally they cut out his "cowardly heart" and threw it in his face, an archaic cruelty-based punisment, to say the least. (Modern Americans would have loved it.)
More on the New Church: We actually climbed the endless spiral staircase to the top, and looked down on the square (note my hand in left corner), and the street, which, while standing on that narrow stone balcony, was a really scary thing to look down on. For more views of this nature see "Madurodam", two pages hence...
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