Overseas Tour 2018

This year’s Overseas Tour was to the Netherlands.  The first week of October, still lovely weather and plenty to see.  We stayed in the Hague, and also spent a day in  Amsterdam (busy) and Delft (charming).

We had an excellent guide, who showed us around a range of galleries, cathedrals and museums.  We learnt a lot – the girl is not wearing a pearl earing but a bit of costume jewellery, Amsterdam is not the capital of Holland, it’s the Hague, and anyway it’s not Holland but ‘The Netherlands’.  But you probably knew all that. 

Most astonishing picture was probably the Mesdag Panorama, a painting of Hague’s docks, shoreline, streets and countryside that completely surrounds the viewer.  We were treated to many ‘top paintings’ (notably said Girl with the PE, The Goldfinch, The Night Watch), several Rembrandt self-portraits, ditto Vincent van G, and one intriguing picture painted jointly by Rembrandt and Bruegel.

The tour was a great success, enjoyed by all.  The pictures are (at top) our group & guide inThe Hague, the joint painting by Rembrandt (left) and Bruegel (right), and the group paying homage to an early Mondrian.