The plans for this side trip started years ago when Vivian read the Girl with the Pearl Earring. We then, of course 
watched the movie (one of those date moments when Marshall is willing to watch a girl movie). We capped the whole Vermeer thing off with a coffee table book of his work (that is somewhere packed away in the states). 
Delft is about an hour from Amsterdam by train and is a quiet little village. We had a nice lunch in the square. One nice lap around the canals, a quick visit to the Vermeer center and a stop by visitors information and we were just about ready for home. Unfortunately, most everything from Vermeer's history has been built over and his work is scattered all over the world. Amsterdam and The Hague have some nice pieces but the rest are scattered from Windsor Castle to Berlin to Washington DC to New York.
watched the movie (one of those date moments when Marshall is willing to watch a girl movie). We capped the whole Vermeer thing off with a coffee table book of his work (that is somewhere packed away in the states). 
Delft is about an hour from Amsterdam by train and is a quiet little village. We had a nice lunch in the square. One nice lap around the canals, a quick visit to the Vermeer center and a stop by visitors information and we were just about ready for home. Unfortunately, most everything from Vermeer's history has been built over and his work is scattered all over the world. Amsterdam and The Hague have some nice pieces but the rest are scattered from Windsor Castle to Berlin to Washington DC to New York.
One of his works was drawn from this vantage point over the city. It didn't quite look the same in 1661 but is a nice shot of the tower.
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