Groningen is larger than Leeuwarden--it has nearly seventy thousand inhabitants--and its evening light seemed to me even more beautifully liquid.

I sat for a long time in a cafe overlooking the great square, feeding a very greedy and impertinent terrier, and alternately watching an endless game of billiards and the changing hue of the sky as day turned to night and the clean white stars came out.

In Holland one can sit very long in cafes: I had dined and left a table of forty Dutchmen just settling down to their wine, at six o'clock, with the whole evening before me.
Groningen takes very good care of itself.

It has trams, excellent shops and buildings, a crowded inland harbour, and a spreading park where once were its fortifications.

The mounds in this park were the first hills I had seen since Laren.