More about Leiden
As noted in the previous post Oxford’s twin town in the Netherlands is Leiden and it is similar to Oxford in the sense that it is an old town with a prominent University distributed all over the town.
There are however also differences between Oxford and Leiden. One obvious one is that Leiden is one of the Dutch towns that has many canals running through it so that going from one place to another usually entails crossing at least one bridge. The picture below shows a canal view shot from a bridge on a somewhat sunnier day.
Leiden really does have this “picture book” Dutch look about it. There is even a windmill in the centre opposite which you can buy Dutch pancakes. All that is missing to complete the picture is a herring selling cart and some seagulls although, some to think of it, you could find those too…