The Hague Shopping

This shop has a very large collection of designer jewelry, Dutch, but also from other countries. Four times a year there is a special exhibition of one artist or group of artists.

What to buy: I've bought many items here, rings, necklaces, armbraces.

The greatest shop to be completely disguised in orange! You will find everything to party and have fun for carnavals, disguised parties and netherlands national day parties!!!! The owner is very sympathic and let us try various orange things, as you can see!!!!

What to pay: Every prices from 50 cent to ....

First attracted by the window all in orange, we went in the shop and discovered a few cool things we soon passed on. Fortunately for us, the shopkeeper was very friendly and accepted pics (this is seldom the case, I can tell you !). So we tried everything possible there ! A good address if you need a special outfit for a special occasion. Thanks again "Meneer Coelho" ;-)

When souvenir shopping I love to buy stuff that I can either eat or drink and get some holiday feeling back, or I buy books, or I buy stuff that is used in the kitchen. "Lifestyle" is a chain with 15 stores in Holland, and they have beautiful things for your house, frames for pictures, furniture, candles, mirrors, cups, plates, cutlery, and all the other nice stuff you would maybe not buy at home but makes the perfect souvenir :-)

Let me know if you need the list of the 15 cities where to find Lifestyle :-)

It's an ordinary supermarket. Ordinary, but for me it' part of the holiday experience where I can buy hagelslag for my breakfast at home after my vacation and a bottle of water for the day of my stay.

They great thing about this DINO is, that it is located just a few minutes from the hostel!

What to pay: 1.22 Euro for 600g of black and white Hagelslag

This shop is a part of the City Mondial too. It sells antique as well as modern furniture from China. At Orientique you can buy everything from lamps to sofabeds, just make sure that you have enough money ;-) The store is huge, and it is nice to look inside, even if you don't gonna buy anything, just pretend you're in a museum!

At this backery you can get a so-called Haagse Kakker ((Haagse) Kak is used to describe a person who is a bit of a snob). The Haagse kakker is a huge currant bun. The bun displayed on the picture is actually not a Haagse kakker (i couldn't eat that by myself) but the small variety called a wassenaarse something (forgot that).

This store sells food and drinks that are being brought to The Netherlands form Iran. Sweets, spices, food and drinks all this can be found in this little store. And if you're in a mood to smoke nargila you can do it right there, while shopping.
Gazaar is located in the multicultural district of The Hague which is called City Mondial.

What to pay: Depends on what you buy and how hungry you are ;-)