Thursday: late again

I didn't like Amsterdam. To many drunk people. Too much pot. Bad atmosphere and bad hostel mates. So, I went traveling on the train to Rotterdam then on to Vlaardingen, Maasluis, Hoek van Holland and then Den Haag.

Here is a map

It was quite the trip and I enjoyed being out in the country. I went to a concert in the Grote Kerk of Vlaardingen. It has a van Petegham organ from Brussels. It was moved sometime in the late 18th century and put in a new case. But, in essence it is a Belgium classical organ. It had nice principles, but poor action and very unconvincing mixtures. Did not sound nice with a plenum. The organist played well, but it was very connected and without emotion. Overall a nice concert and glad I went. I talked (as best as one can through a language barrier until we found the one person who spoke English. Then, it was marginally better. I asked to play it. Here are pictures!

organist Aad Zoutendijk in the background.

More pictures of Maasluis and the Hoek to follow!