* The World War II museum is closed on Thursdays. Damn.
* There are actual parking meters in this city. I haven't seen a traditional meter since I got here. Every other city uses "parking kiosks"
* The Dordrechts Museum was mostly filled with the lesser known works of lesser known artists. Bummer. I meant to spent a bit of time there, and ended up being there only about 30 minutes. I went in, saw "De Luistervink" (the Eavesdropper, the Nicolaes Maes painting I'm writing a paper on), and left after browsing through the other paintings and seeing very little that I enjoyed. There were two or three exceptions, but still. Not my favorite museum by any means.
* The train station is odd. It has tracks 1, 2, 15, and 20. As far as I could tell, that was it. Oh, I think there were tracks 4 and 5 too. Weird.
* This city actually had stop lights in it, which I've rarely seen on this vacation outside of Amsterdam. Leiden has no stoplights in the city center, and only a few on the edge of the city. I found the presence of stoplights and infrequent happy-crossing-light-men to be an unpleasant strike against pedestrians. That's phooey, because the Netherlands is one of the most pedestrian-friendly places I've ever been in my life. I shouldn't complain too much, tho, because I did manage to walk around the city just fine, and it does have a pedestrian-only shopping street.
* I found my ideal wedding dress there. Why, oh, why did I not take a picture? ::sigh:: It was a beautiful satiny cream fabric, fitted at the waist and then it slowly goes out into a full circle. But there is no evil waistband, and the embroidery on the bodice was lovely. Oh, well, it'll be at least 7 or 8 years before I'll want to seriously think about it.
* The church was closed too, or maybe I couldn't find the entrance. At least the bells were pretty.
* LonelyPlanet says Dordrecht is so great that it deserves a whole day and a night. Not so, I say, not so! I had 4 hours, and I did just fine. At least the town provided me with some good exercise.
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