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Oude Kerk at Scheveningen, translated Old Church, is a well-appointed, fifteenth-century construction in one of The Hague’s northern districts close to the sea. Its belltower gives the pleasantly light, melodic ring for which the Low Countries’ churches are famous. At the year’s start, a new bell was hung in the tower by the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry. Upon it is written, in Dutch:
It’s a sunny summer’s day, with a warm wind sending fleecy clouds across the blue sky above us, reminding me that we haven’t had as many wet afternoons as usual this year. That’s good! My small OA bible hasn’t had to be dried out on the radiator as often, which means it’s lasting longer than previous ones.