Travel Journal | Day 6 · A Denser Yet Picture-Perfect World

Arrived in The Hague (Den Haag) by train 🚆. While waiting for my hotel room, I wandered the streets. Quiet, almost surreal—few people, impeccably clean sidewalks, no potted plants, no benches, no bicycles. Curtains drawn, occasional sculptures trapped behind glass on windowsills. Felt like walking through a stage set—all scenery, no actors. 🎭 🌳 The Park Revelation Stumbled upon a vast park in the city center—like a shaved bald spot on a head. A sea of grass framed by trees, with just one distant skyscraper peeking through. Stepping in from the street was like entering the Peach Blossom Spring*. People scattered across the lawn like post-apocalyptic survivors—just sky, earth, and endless emptiness. [Reference to Tao Yuanming's idyllic utopia] 🏙️ A City of Colliding Scales The Hague plays with dimensions—tiny, medium, enormous, gargantuan—collaged together. Sometimes buses abruptly exit the urban sprawl, plunging into forest-lined highways as if sliding into a dream. 🌲🚍 #FieldNotes #ArchitectOnTheMove #TravelDiaries #TheHague #NetherlandsTravel #ArchitectureLover #UrbanWandering