The magnificent Hotel Des Indes is an old friend, a landmark establishment on the swank Lange Voorhout Avenue at the center of The Hague in southern Holland. If you are lucky enough to visit in late winter, walking to the hotel has its own rewards, with a unique chance to traipse through magnificent carpets of yellow-throated indigo and white crocuses that magically emerge through blankets of soft snow. Such a beautiful vision, it’s enough to make one want to pirouette.
Approaching the antique ochre hotel exterior and the gabled gray façade, guests are
