Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs

with crowded, colorful streets. Justly famous there is the an old cheese market where they display for sale huge quantities of whole cheeses. Then back down the peninsula to Haarlem where I picked up our old route along the small roads through the tulip fields. But whereas Bridge were too early for the best of the flowers and saw only a few fields in bloom, this time we were too late and they were all out for sale - we saw only about 3 fields in all still in bloom. Came down into The Hague, past the Peace Palace and out to the beach resort of Scheweningen. The sun was out for a while here and the beach was much prettier and more touristy than the gray beach and shore Bridge and I saw. We drove on down through Delft (a small, very picturesque town, the home of the Famous blue china) and Rotterdam, on down into Belgium through Breda to Antwerp. We got into the hostel about 8 pm, just had time to drive into town for dinner before getting back at 10 pm for bedtime. As fast as we've gone we've seen a lot of countryside, and its been a delightful trip.

Today we'll drive arund Antwerp for a while, go on and look around Brussels, drive on to Luxembourg for the night. Then tomorrow we'll roam around Luxembourg and Trier, Germany (may be Treves on your maps) and then for the Burg before it gets too late.

Well after a quick week or so of study and two brief days of finals I'll be off for Vienna. I've mailed for tickets to the music festival for while I'm there (it runs for a whole month, with top artists from all over Europe!) and have my fingers crossed - 5 concerts in all I hope. Saw a marvelous concert in Stuttgart last week, topped by a sparkling performance of the Dvorak cello concerto.

Well, we're about to get driving. Lots of love - George

See you in JUST THREE WEEKS!! You might arrange to have a slide projector at Jane's (mine if it comes) if you want to, since I'll have my pictures with me.