The Hague

South Holland, Netherlands

Where law meets the beach

About The Hague

The Hague carries itself like a diplomat-stately, composed, a seat of government that somehow also has a beach.

Ministries and international courts line dignified avenues, and the small Mauritshuis holds Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring like a single jewel. Then the tramline runs out to Scheveningen, where the North Sea crashes against a long pier and the mood turns to deckchairs and fried fish.

It's quieter and more buttoned-up than the rest of the Randstad, a city that does serious business in the morning and walks the dunes at dusk.

Order kibbeling from a seafront stall and watch the grey sea do its work.

Fly to The Hague

Round trip from Prague, any dates in October 2026.

Buses from The Hague