15. Voorschoten
The short train journey from Amsterdam to Voorschoten took just 50 minutes. Voorschoten is a small town (by Dutch standards) with a population of 20,000, situated between Leiden and The Hague. It is on the main Amsterdam - Den Hag line, which made travel very easy as there were lots of direct trains from and back to Centraal station in Amsterdam. The Accommodation I was invited to stay in our good friends Ingrid and Michel's wonderful home, built in 1940. We have known them for about 12 years since we did a home exchange with them and their four children, when they lived in Leiden. Since then we have seen them about seven or eight times. They have just moved to this house in Voorschoten in April this year, so it was my first time to visit them since the move. The beautiful house has a lot of character and many original features, such as a serving hatch, terrazzo flooring, original tiling and lovely plasterwork detailing, not to mention an elegant cur...
