Saturday, October 3, 2009

Day 3 - Delft



A nice town.

It is more than 750 years old and owes its name to the word 'delving' or the digging of the oldest canal, the Oude Delft.

It is famous for its ceramics. A typical blue Delftware has its history more than 400 years ago where the Dutch learned the technique from Chinese porcelaine. As in other 'knowledge' transfer, they have made full use of it and the rest is history.

We went shopping for souvenirs.
Not the Delftware due to their astronomical prices...

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