North Sea Resort
Repairs Damage
From Hurricane
By a Special Correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
Scheveningen, The Netherlands I
This popular North Sea resort j
is busy repairingwith a $500,-
000 appropriation from The
Hague Municipal Councilthe
damage to the seaside prome-
i nade caused by the Jan. 31 hur-
ricane. By the beginning of May,
when the bathing season begins,
Scheveningen will be its old self.
The popularity of Scheveningen
stems from its triple-header fea
turesa broad bathing beach,
good, moderate-priced hotels, and
its location, five minutes from
The Hague and within easy ac
cess of Amsterdam and other
Dutch tourist meccas.
It is also one of the centers of
the Holland Festival, June 15 to
July 15, and here, after a day on
the beach, one can spend the
evening listening to one of the
great Dutch orchestras or watch
ing a ballet performance.
A few minutes away is Madu-
rodam, the Lilliput city, which
will open on April 1 for its second
year and which attracted thou
sands last year. Madurodam pre
sents, on a miniature but perfect
scale, an idea of what a Dutch
town looks like, complete with
buildings, churches, playgrounds,
shopping centers, a harbor, and
an airport.
Prices are only slightly higher
than last year, with a good hotel
room available for $5 daily.
Scheveningen also offers donkey
rides for children, cruises off the
coast, two duneland parks, a
circus, riding, tennis and golf and
fireworks displays weekly,
Scheveningen began its career
as a seaside resort in 1818, until
which time it existed only as a
fishing villagea village "that
still exists alongside the resort
area in all its quaintness. It was
devastated during World War II,
when the Germans razed whole
areas to build their Atlantic Wall.
But the wartime scars have long
since gone.
