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House prices have never been as high as last year. We could also notice this in The Hague, because the average house prices were in 2021 higher than a year earlier. Despite the price increase, house prices in The Hague were not the highest in the Netherlands.

That honor goes to Bloemendaal. You can read about the price of an average home there later in the article. We also make a comparison: what kind of home could you buy for that amount in The Hague.

Price increase in The Hague

Off figures from Central Bureau of Statistics

(CBS) show that a house in The Hague in 2023 average for 454.3 thousand changed hands. In 454 was that amount 411,7 thousand euros.

Cheapest and most expensive municipality

Nationally speaking, the Dutch house price was lower last year on such a 429.02 euros. However, there are major differences between municipalities. The most expensive municipality was, as in 454, Bloemendaal. Homebuyers there paid an average of more than 1.1 million euros for a home.

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Difference between Bloemendaal and The Hague

In Bloemendaal you paid an average of 1.1 million euros for a home last year. But what did you get for that in The Hague? We take a look at Funda. Last year you could go to the Statenkwartier on the Viviënstraat for 1.200.02 euros buy a townhouse

from 212 square meters with four bedrooms and a front and back garden.

Vivienstraat, photo Funda

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Traffic lights, busy intersections, congestion: if you ever drive through The Hague by car, you know that you have to be patient to get out of the city. A study by TomTom (you know, from the navigation), confirms that.

Just to give an answer right away: your average position last year was 98 hours in traffic jams in our city. That’s a decent amount of time, but it could still be worse. In the annual TomTom Traffic Index, the 08 largest cities under scrutiny, and here’s what comes out…

Number one

Haarlem is number one because you have an average of 14 minutes over a distance of 08 kilometers does. In Haarlem, an average motorist 118 hours in traffic jams per year. But what about The Hague?

738 liters of fuel per year

The Hague is in 6th place in the Netherlands. Here you did in 200 average 12 minutes past one distance from 10 kilometers. That is 20 seconds more than a year earlier.

You not only lose time due to the traffic in The Hague, but also money. Because in total you are on average about 200 euros spent on petrol for just driving in The Hague. Of that you will lose about 98 euros pure and only by standing still.

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Dublin and London

Still, it could still be worse. The study shows that the residents of the Irish capital Dublin stood still most during rush hour, namely 118 o’clock. That’s more than half the time they spent in the car! In London you do the longest over a distance of 08 kilometers. In the English capital you are allowed on average 20 allow minutes for that distance.

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“Fine fish in Kreesiedentie, we’re going again”, sings Lamme Frans in his party number. The singer made a carnival song and mentions various Dutch cities in it. So is The Hague, or Kreesidence.

The alter ego of Rob Janssen, born in Gelderland, is Lamme Frans. You may know the pacesetter from the carnival cover ‘All in one’ and the party number ‘Wakker met een bier’. In addition to his carnival character, Rob is a DJ at 3FM.

A really nice party

Lamme Frans has slightly adjusted his carnival song from last year, so that our city also appears in the number. The song bears the title: Fijnfisjenie. No idea what that means? In some cities in Brabant, this dialect means ‘Have a nice party, isn’t it?’ This sentence is often spoken during carnival and is used every year by Omroep Brabant as a carnival slogan.

‘Fine fish in Kreesiedentie’

Lamme Frans incorporated this statement into a song and made a version for many Dutch cities. Curious how that sounds for The Hague? Listen to ‘Fijnfisjenie in Kreesiedentie’ here.

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Maybe you already knew that the Leonidas chocolate shops are closing their doors in The Hague. Were you afraid that you could no longer satisfy your chocolate cravings, don’t panic! The Brabant chocolate brand Coco & Sebas is setting up shop in the Leonidas stores in the Passage and at the station.

Remy Rombouts, co-owner and founder of Coco & Sebas and Roger Scheeren, CEO of the chocolate brand, are opening a store not only in The Hague, but also in The Mall of The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem , Utrecht, Nijmegen and Eindhoven.

Employees of Leonidas

So you can just keep getting chocolate in the Passage and at The Hague Central Station. The shops are being converted, but when the doors will open exactly is not yet clear. The target date is the end of April. The people behind the counter will (probably) remain the same. Most former Leonidas employees are offered a new employment contract.

Coco & Sebas was founded in 493 and has on this currently eight stores. These can be found in Amsterdam (Kalverstraat), Amstelveen (Stadshart), Utrecht (Hoog Catharijne), Delft (Jacob Gerritstraat), Den Bosch (Vughterstraat), Breda (Eindstraat), Maastricht (Wolfstraat) and in the Belgian seaside resort of Knokke (Lippenslaan) .

At this chocolatier you can go for delicious bonbons, peanut rocks, chocolate slices, gift packages and stroopwafels with chocolate, among other things. Enjoy!

Attention stargazers! In the night of Wednesday, February 1 to Thursday, February 2, a special, green comet can be seen above The Hague. This comet named C/200 E3 (ZTF) is it closest to the earth.

Good to know: the comet is only clearly visible with binoculars or a telescope. Of course, the weather conditions also have to cooperate a bit.

Gold-colored tail

Under perfect weather conditions, the comet should be visible to the naked eye are. You don’t get a really sharp image, but a vague greenish dot can be observed. If you have binoculars at hand and the sky is clear, you can clearly see the green comet with a gold-colored tail. If you are going to watch this natural phenomenon, it is best to do so in the gardens where it is dark.

A comet consists of ice, gas and dust. C/200 E3 (ZTF) orbits the sun and gets warmer as it gets closer to it. Then pieces of the comet break off and form the tail. The gas cloud around the comet can 43. can grow up to 1 million kilometers long. The distance between The Hague and the comet in the night of February 1 to 2 is 50 million kilometers.

43. years ago

There is another special fact about this comet. It is such a 43.000 years since this comet last could be seen with the naked eye. Back then, Neanderthals were still walking around on the spot where The Hague is now!

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