The Hague holidays

What do you do when you’ve exhausted Europe’s traditional hit list of city breaks? When you’ve seen the glittering lights of Paris, ridden your bike through Amsterdam’s winding lanes and explored Berlin’s hipster neighbourhoods? Which alternative European city breaks should you plan next? Over the years, we’ve explored as much as Europe as possible; working our way through the usual suspects, before embarking on some more alternative European weekend breaks....

“Oh, The Hague”, my friend had said when I told her I’d be visiting the Netherland’s third largest city - “that’s in Denmark, right?” Another friend had ventured that it might be in Germany, whilst one suspected it might be a mysterious country entirely of its own. “Like Lichenstein”, she’d said, knowingly. For many, The Hague - or Den Haag - is one of Europe’s more enigmatic cities. Home to the borderless United Nations, over 118 international...