Day 3 (Delft & Rotterdam) with Joop Photo Gallery by hadley at pbase.com

Day 3 (Delft & Rotterdam) with Joop

On the 3rd day, we met our friend Joop at the Delft train station and went to have a coffee at a local pub. It was raining quite hard this day, but we managed to venture out and tour the Old Church (Oude Kerk - circa 1246) and New Church (16th or 17th century?). John and Joop also began a quest to find Vermeer's home. Unfortunately, Vermeer's home had been demolished (and his body interred in 1675), but from the looks of the town, I can only imagine that it was little changed from his time, so, at the least, we may have been able to see some of what the painter saw. We then took the train back to Rotterdam, took a short walk around the city, stopped by Joop's place and then had a wonderful dinner at a new restaurant nearby.

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Watch your step! View across canal from Vermeer's homesite in Delft	A Good Place to Rest	A Better Place to Rest William 'the Silent' of Orange - 1st true King of Holland	The Best Place to Rest The story is that William, the Silent's, dog was faithful to the end. When William died, the dog curled up at his feet and never left him. Eventually, the dog also passed and was buried with William.
Thinking, thinking, thinking...	Two Tough Guys	Government Building in Rotterdam	Erasmus Bridge
Dutch Cowgirl Watches over the King	King Watches the Cowgirl	Williams lays very Silent	Music and Light in the Old Church One of 4 organs in the church. Services still held every Sunday.
Delft	Delft Building #2	Burger King Color in Rotterdam	John's Career Maker
So Where's the Rest of Him?	Joop gives John a brush of history	Delft Building	Why I wish I had a WA lens - Part 1
Why I wish I had a WA lens - part 2	Building framed by umbrella and awning	125_2566.jpg	Vermeer Slept Here (after he died in 1675)
Heineken Truck on Bridge in Delft	Looking for Vermeer - part 1	Looking for Vermeer - part 2	Looking for Vermeer - part 3
Looking for Vermeer - part 4 Vermeer's home actually stood just behind these two men.	Vermeer's Home Discovered The original building is long gone now and has been recently replaced by a small building with a shopfront.	View from front of where Vermeer's Home would have been (notice large rodent in upper left window)	Large Rodent trapped in Window
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Oldest Dutch Shopping Mall - Rotterdam	126_2603.jpg	Old type pump	The Gate Keepers
126_2607.jpg	1.5 building	View from Joop's Window	Joop's Kitchen Joop is always 'cooking up' a new photo shoot.
Joop's comfortable nest Surrounded by many of his favorite things.	John Reflects on the Famous Couch	John's Painting Finds a Happy Home	The Captain's Chair
And then there was Life	Camera in one hand and Computer in the other	A New York minute in Rotterdam John looks through Joop's treasures	All Systems Go
Everything Square?	Reviewing the Shot	Erasmus Bridge	The Sad Truth Joop explains to John about the sad demise of the old Kattendracht District (the area where sailors once went when they came into port). John was introduced to a fine young lady there by his Greek shipmates when he was 16.
The Flying Cuttlery	View across Rotterdam Harbour (ps'd in watercolor)

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