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Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) Rotterdam
34 Reviews Surprisingly these are inhabitable, a hostal here too, inside I guess all is pretty normal - very unusual from the outside though and worh a short trip to see them plus, there are some decent bars...
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St. Pietersberg Maastricht
15 Reviews These caves are off the beaten path from the center of town but it is walkable. I wish the VVV site had mentioned that the tour was not in English at all. The site is in English and the information on...
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Madurodam, Miniature City The Hague
35 Reviews We loved madurodam. If you like model railways or miniature objects, this place is paradise. The models are beautifully constructed and very accurate, and the grounds are landscaped with lawns and...
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Historical OpenairMuseum Eindhoven Eindhoven
8 Reviews Planned the 5th.VT Euromeeting 2009 at th meetingspage, but had to cancel due to healtproblem :-( I love to work here because of my interest in history and the beautifull area its...
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Grote Markt Haarlem
41 Reviews You will visit Grote Markt wether you wanno or not. The Grote Markt is the central market square of Haarlem and has been so for centuries. It is the centre-piece for many of Haarlem's famous...
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Dom church and tower Utrecht
58 Reviews The Domtower is 112 meter high, and more than 600 years old. Between the tower and the church is a square. This is quite unusual, normally the tower is a part of the church. The tower was separated...
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Markt square Delft
14 Reviews I love the Markt Square and the feeling that you back in time surrounded by the Guild houses, New Church where the members of the Royal Dutch families are burried and the Delf Town Hall. I love...
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Historical Leiden Leiden
96 Reviews De Burcht is a fortification on top of a man-made hill. These higher grounds were made by the settlers who started a settlement at the Rhine river in the tenth century. A Century later the hill was 9...
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Martini Toren - Martini Tower Groningen
11 Reviews The Martini Tower is the eye-catcher at the heart of the town of Groningen. From april 1 till november 1 from 11AM to 5PM the tower is open daily.; entrance fee € 3.00. More info at the Tourist...
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Market Square Nijmegen
23 Reviews The triangular Grote Markt lies in the center of old Nijmegen. In the square there is a statue of Mariken van Nieumeghen, the chief character in the 15th century mystery play of that name. According...
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Burgers Zoo Arnhem
13 Reviews It's a very nice place to spend a day. On one and the same day you can “visit” Africa, Safari, Desert and Ocean. The animals here are kept like in the real nature. I liked a set of cafes located in...
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Grote Kerk Breda
40 Reviews Onze Lieve Vrouwe Kerk (Our Lady's Church), also known as Grote Kerk (the Big Church), can be seen all over the city centre with its bright tower. The first mentioning of a stone chuch here was 1269...
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Architecture Tilburg
14 Reviews This building a few years ago was the first large tower to be seen when approaching Tilburg, the red, brown tower of 'Interpolis'. However recently another big tower can be seen as well, 'Westpoint'...
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Binnendieze Den Bosch
14 Reviews Den Bosch is circled by typical Dutch canals and the boat tours of the canals are operated in small boats powered by a small motor that take about 16 people. There is a choice of two trips - one takes...
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Amusement Valkenburg
12 Reviews Op top of the hill with the Wilhelmina Tower, you can make a ride with a toboggan/bobsled. You can get on top of the hill using the chairlift (Neerhem 44, http://www.kabelbaan.nl/) or take the stairs...
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Cheese market Alkmaar
15 Reviews Originally a chapel for the Holy Ghost, this 14th century building was converted to a weigh house in 1582. Today it houses the Kaasmuseum (Cheese Museum) and is the backdrop for the cheese market on...
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Abbey & church Lange Jan Middelburg
11 Reviews The Lange Jan is a churchtower open to the public. After climbing the 207 steps you have a magnificient view over the city at an altitude of about 90 meters. The tower is part of the Abdij...
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Architecture Bergen op Zoom
12 Reviews The area of het Havenkwartier has beautiful architecture.You can walk around a little, there are a few pubs to drink something and there is a nice restaurant het Spuihuis where you can get a good...
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De grote Kerk (the big church) Dordrecht
9 Reviews About the Churchtower: The Gothic Big Church is the third biggest one in the Netherlands, and the tower is about 75 meters high (about 250 feet) and never finished. The dome-vault of the Big Church is...
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St. Jan cathedral 's-Hertogenbosch
2 Reviews Go in and tour a beautiful old church. Altho, in April it was colder on the inside than it was outside. It's a spectacular gothic style church. I understand this city and many of it's structures date...
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Must visit in Zuid-Holland Provincie Zuid-Holland
8 Reviews Delft is a very pictoresque town with its main attractions the Delftware factory (Porceleyne Flesch) and the New Church where Dutch royals have been buried for centuries. But that is not all by far....
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Anne Frank House Amsterdam
230 Reviews Ann Frank is a young Jewish girl who went into hiding during the Second World War and the Holocast. During the 2 years of hiding in the attack of an old warehouse Anne wrote a diary detailing her...
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Euromast Rotterdam
45 Reviews One of Rotterdams most famous attractions is the Euromast, also known as Space Tower in English. This is an observation tower of 185 meters and it offers an exeptional view of Rotterdam and its...
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Streets & neighbourhoods Maastricht
29 Reviews Maastricht really suited my personal style of tourism. The city centre is compact and eminently walkable (although the cobblestones can be a bit hard on the feet) . The various streets and districts...
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Scheveningen / Kijkduin beach The Hague
33 Reviews Scheveningen is part of the Hague having golden sand, many pubs and restaurants, an aquarium (Sea Life) and a modern lighthouse. The water, no surprise, is not really good for swimming but it can...
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And the best one is the Lover's boat cruise on the canal right in front of Centraal train station. One hour for 15€ is a great deal indeed. A great way to soak on the history and architecture of the city. There are other cruise company in the canals of course, http://www.iamsterdam.com/en-GB/experience/what-to-do/activities-and-excursions/canal-cruisingyou will have all the information on them above in addition to Lovers webpge
very nice look coming out of centraal train station look left and you see this building, upon getting nearer is rather bleak and dirty on the facade but its lovely architecture and great history.In Dutch is Sint Nicolaaskerk The baroque dome is 58 meters high and it was built in 1887. A nice interlude while walking around the train station Centraal
Heusden, along the river Maas is dates back to the 13th century when it started with the construction of the fortification to replace the castle that was destroyed by the Duke of Brabant in 1202. This fortification was quickly expanded with water works and a donjon (castle). Heusden received city rights in 1318. During the first years of the Eighty Years War (1568-1648), Heusden was occupied by the Spanish. In 1577, however the people of Heusden chose to ally with William, Prince of Orange. William decided to consolidate the town's strategic position near the river Maas and ordered fortification works to be constructed. This started in 1579 with the digging of moats and the construction of bastions, walls, and ravelins and was completed in 1597.By early 19th century the fortifications were fallen into disrepair and dismantled. However in 1968 extensive restoration works started and...
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First we intended to do just the Nassau walk, but it turned out this walk offers a limited number of Nassau-sights. And about the half of these sites were not open for public at the moment we visited Leeuwarden. So we merged this walk with another one, called ‘Route Topmonumenten’. We could download both walks and made our own itinerary. It is also possible to download MP3 files (only Dutch) and in front of most of the sites are information panels in English and Dutch. We were lucky to stay in Hotel Paleis Stadhouderlijk Hof, which is one of the major sights in Leeuwarden. I highly recommend going inside and ask if you are allowed to take a look in the beautiful Nassauzaal. Just opposite the (former) palace - at the same square - is the town hall. In 1715 three year old Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, prince of Oranje-Nassau, laid the first brick for the building. I really don’t know if one...
Bolsward is one of the eleven Frisian cities. It became its city rights already in the year of 1455. Originally Bolsward was built on two ‘terpen’ (man made artificial hills) and even in 900 the city still was surrounded by water. It had an open connection to the sea by way of a gully and the Frisian Middelzee. Bolsward was since 1412 – according to written sources – member of the Germanic Hanseatic cities.We started our exploration of the city - of course on foot – just behind our hotel Hid Hero Hiem, where we saw the only remains of the old defensive walls and a part of the city moat. A little bit to the north stand the Martini Church on one of the former ‘terpen’. Construction of this impressive church began in 1442. Church is open for visitors and we took a look inside; quite impressive with its pillars, wooden pulpit and choir stalls.Walking back to the city center along a canal...
Friesland is as flat as a pancake and ideal for a bicycle trip. We opted for a ride towards the Ijsselmeer (former Zuiderzee) and back. We headed for Exmorra, where we made our first stop with a visit to a historical grocery shop dating back to the end of the 19th century; the same building houses an old school class and a shoe repair shop. Living rooms of the former owner do have period furniture. Allingawier is just a couple of kilometres further and offers a nice ‘open air museum’, with farmhouses, an old village church, a black smith, an eel smokery and a bakery where they make so called ‘drabbelkoeken’ (a local sweet). The village also has a café and a restaurant.Just outside the village lies the Allingastate, a more or less newly built Frisian manor (= state), which is a mix of several styles. To be honest: we were not impressed at all.(Grocery shop, Allingawier museum village and...
The Dutch province of Friesland is commonly well known for its flatness, green meadows with cows, lakes and sailing boats. But some parts of the province are quite different; one of them is ‘Gaasterland’ in the south western part.Gaasterland (gaast = sandy hill) has some hills, although don’t expect too much (the highest one is just 12,7 metres above the sea level). They are remains of the latest ice age, when glaciers covered also the Netherlands.It is a very pleasant and beautiful scenery, with its gently sloped landscape, meadows, loam cliffs along the IJsselmeer and several forest; together with some really nice and quiet villages a very interesting part of Friesland.We made a walk of a couple of hours through this scenery and just saw al these elements, making a loop walk from the small village of Oudemirdum. First ‘climbing’ a hill and afterwards descending to the dike along the...
The Province of Zeeland is the westernmost province of the Netherlands and consists of a number of islands with a strip of land bordering Belgium. Large parts of the province are below sea level and have been reclaimed from the sea by its inhabitants, what was once a muddy landscape that disappeared at low tide, became small man-made hills which were connected by creating dikes, this led to a chain of dry land that gave the province its current shape.June 2010See My Travel Page for more information.
A horticultural show taking place only every ten years, where many countries come together and do exhibitions of fruit, trees, flowers and other things that are grown in their respective countries or produced A very interesting show, but I was dissapointed as many countries did not go to a lot of trouble with their exhibitions.
Ambassade Hotel Amsterdam
4 Reviews and 352 Opinions My son and grandmother shared a room at the Ambassade, where we were greeted by a very friendly and...
Hotel New York Rotterdam
18 Reviews and 104 Opinions This Hotel is the right place for romantic people who like its "old fashioned" style, the relaxed...
Novotel Maastricht Maastricht
4 Reviews and 89 Opinions It's great to see and witness that the hotel has a heated outdoor swimming pool, which you can use...
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