In Haarlem, the Teylers museum is much more interesting than Frans Hals.

And about Hoog Catharijne: it's a blight in the city, offers a lot of national chain stores, but not much more. It tore up the entire fabric of the city. Its negative effect mainly concerns the areas at street level. Because of the separation of its functions, it has created an entire area beneath it that's been neglected: mainly drugs and alcohol abuse and the petty crime that comes with it. It makes the area around HC, so the entrances from street level to the shopping complex subjectively unsafe. Walking to the station through HC at night is a very unpleasant experience.

Here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRxBphBxvSc

https://www.corrietenboom.com/

Corrie tem Boom House in Haarlem is that town's version, kind of, of Amsterdam's Anne Frank House.

I stay in Haarlem now more than Amsterdam - have a lovely B&B on a quiet canal at a fraction of the price I'd pay in Amsterdam and I am more looking for an ordinary Dutch city more than tourist-filled Amsterdam, which BTW is still my favorite city in the world!

Day 8: Morning Rotterdam, afternoon: Rotterdam - Delft: leave luggage at station, explore Delft, pick up luggage, continue to Amsterdam.>

You could also leave luggage at Rotterdam's station as ICD (Inter City Direct - over the new high-speed line built for Thalys trains) trains go from there directly to Amsterdam - actually from Delft it is 5 minutes quicker about to go via The Hague but IME of Dutch stations you cannot always depend on finding left-luggage lockers available - they may be full - not usually but if you want to be sure leave them at Rotterdam which has tons of lockers - smaller stations do not always have a lot of them - that said can't recall Delft's station whether it has tons of lockers or not or if there is a manual left-luggage like I'm sure there is at Rotterdam Central.

Delft now has a brand new station with lots of lockers.

menachem - is the new station in the same location as old? Hoefully as it is a short walk from the town center.

Lockers in some stations have been filled when I needed them so nice to know lots of lockers now.

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PalenQ, they built it next to the old station that now stands empty. The entire track is now in a tunnel, so no more looking into people's living rooms while traveling from Delft to The Hague ;)

Wow - what a difference - the classic railway station architecture of the old melded to the avant-garde contemporary addition - I like it - thanks for the video.

The entire track is now in a tunnel, so no more looking into people's living rooms while traveling from Delft to The Hague ;)>

You mean the whole Delft to Hague rail line is now underground or just the part in Delft? Curious as the former would seem to be so expensive - but I can see the part in the city - no more noise disturbing folks sleeping!