Fun Things To Do In The
Netherlands
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Rent a bicycle and join the Dutch on the country's
most popular form of transport. There are around 17,000km
(10,600 miles) of designated cycle tracks around The
Netherlands, which due to its generally flat landscape,
is ideal.
• Take a glass-topped
boat tour round Amsterdam's many waterways and harbour.
It is an excellent way to see the city's most interesting
areas. Another option is to take the Museum Boat (website:
www.water-taxi.nl), which links most of the major
cultural attractions.
• Explore the interior workings
and health of the human body at Corpus, a new visitor
attraction near Leiden (website: www.corpusexperience.nl).
The attraction also incorporates a medical information
centre with changing exhibitions.
• Take a trip to the Hoge Veluwe
national park (website: www.hogeveluwe.nl) near Arnhem,
among whose attractions is an underground museum dedicated
to subterranean life, and the Kröller-Müller
Museum (www.kmm.nl) which contains 280 Van Gogh paintings
as well as numerous other works.
• Enjoy a football match at
one of the top Dutch stadia, Amsterdam Arena, home
of the famous Ajax (website: www.ajax.nl), PSV's Philips
Stadion in Eindhoven (website: www.psv.nl) or De Kuip,
in Rotterdam, where Feyenoord play (website: www.feyenoord.com).
• Drive across the Afsluitdijk,
a 30km (19 mile) barrier built in the 1930s to close
off the Zuiderzee from the North Sea, creating the
now freshwater IJsselmeer. Motorists can stop at a
lookout point halfway across the road linking Friesland
with Noord-Holland.
• Relive history at the expanded and renovated
Het Spoorwegmuseum (Dutch National Railway Museum)
(website: www.spoorwegmuseum.nl), at Maliebaanstation
in Utrecht, with its extensive collection of historic
rolling stock and memorabilia. A regular train link
connects the museum with Utrecht Central.
• Ride the high-speed lift up
Euromast in Rotterdam (website: www.euromast.com),
and dine at a height of 100m (328ft) overlooking the
world's biggest harbour. Then, if you're brave, ascend
even higher to 185m (605ft) with the Euroscoop experience.
• Step back into history at Zaanse Schans village
(website: www.zaanseschans.nl), a short distance from
Amsterdam, with its traditional houses, working windmills,
clog factory, cheese farm, boat builder's and several
museums.
• Get away from it all, and
go ‘wad hopping' between the five Dutch Wadden
Islands. Served by regular ferry services in the summer,
the islands are a popular holiday destination, and
cycling is the accepted way to get around.
• Stroll around the historic
city of Gouda, following the Cheese Map (available
from the local tourist office; website: www.vvvgouda.nl),
which leads visitors around the various landmarks,
including the Weighhouse Museum, associated with cheesemaking
in the city.
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