🇳🇱 Delft: Studying in a Historic Dutch Town with a Vibrant Student

✨ If we ignore the brutal exams and stressful deadlines, living in Delft is actually pretty magical!* 🌍 Perfect Location Sandwiched between The Hague & Rotterdam (30-min train ride 🚆) 40 mins to Amsterdam—ideal for weekend escapes! Europe’s best-connected small town 🗺️ 🎪 Local Joys 🌸 Thursday & Saturday markets at Nieuwe Kerk Square: Cheap flowers 💐, fresh fruit 🍓, and jazz performances in September! 🚤 Boat tours along the canals—Vermeer’s same views since 1660! 🚶 Must-Do City Walk 🔹 Prinsenhof – Where William of Orange was assassinated 🏰 🔹 Oude Kerk – Vermeer’s final resting place ⛪ 🔹 Nieuwe Kerk – Climb for panoramic views 🌆 🔹 Vermeer Centrum – Dive into the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" genius 🎨 🔹 Royal Delft – Watch blue pottery being hand-painted 🔵 🔹 TU Delft Library – Futuristic grass-roofed study spot 📚 🔹 City Bakery Dimond Ring – Best cakes in town! 🍰 🤯 Mind-Blowing History Vermeer & Van Leeuwenhoek (microscope inventor) were neighbors in the 1600s! Same canals, same squares—just 400 years apart 🕰️ "Delft’s gate in Vermeer’s painting? Still standing today!" #Delft #StudyAbroad #DutchHistory #Vermeer #HiddenGems #TUDelft #TravelEurope