Leiden
Stayed overnight at this hotel. Our room is by the lamp post with the 3 sash windows, at 103 euros a night but worth it. It was a large room with a chandelier, period furniture and 2 3' beds in one frame and a large bathroom in victorian style. The building was once 6 prestigous 16th century canal houses. In 1830 one of them was inhabited by J R Thorbecke, the father of the Dutch constitution. The city is known for its oldest university in the country, it is twinned with Oxford, the birthplace of Rembrandt and its old city centre which is the second largest after Amsterdam.