Van Gogh, Vermeer and van Wensveens

Yes, we're mixing it with all the big names over here.

Using the Auntie Vonnie Art Appreciation Technique of starting upstairs and working down, we whiled away quite a few hours in the Mauritshuis with the Golden Age painters and in the Kroller Muller museum with Van Gogh and his contemporaries.

Highlights for Flash were Gerrit Dou's finely detailed domestic scenes and Vermeer's Delft. For me, the girl and her earring was a standout and Rembrandt's old lady looking at a coin - what these two could do with light and expression was extraordinary.

The collection (and the building) at the K-M is fantastic, and we were able to spend more lovely hours with the 50 or so Van Goghs, and Dutch and French painters of the same era and then wander through the sculpture garden and woods.

Of course our most important stops have been St Kruis, Zoetemeer, Laag Keppel and Arnhem - wonderful to catch up with family!