Zaanse Schans
Six working windmills on a river bank twenty minutes from Amsterdam, and the remains of what was once the most heavily industrialised landscape in the world.
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Six working windmills on a river bank twenty minutes from Amsterdam, and the remains of what was once the most heavily industrialised landscape in the world.
A fishing village half an hour from Amsterdam that lost its sea in 1932 and turned the loss into a living — costume, smoked eel, and a harbour that still looks the part.
A village in Overijssel with canals instead of streets, about ninety minutes from Amsterdam. The water is not decorative — it is what is left after eight centuries of digging peat.
Seven million bulbs in a wood outside Lisse, open for about eight weeks a year — and the commercial flower fields all around it, which are free, enormous, and not the same thing at all.
Den Haag is where the government sits, where Vermeer's best-known painting hangs, and where the Netherlands keeps its beach. It is an hour from Amsterdam and it does not feel like Amsterdam at all.
Rotterdam is the one Dutch city that does not look Dutch. The old centre was destroyed in a single afternoon in 1940, and what went up instead is the best modern architecture in the country.
Utrecht has the tallest church tower in the country, a canal built on two levels, and about a quarter of Amsterdam's crowds. It is forty-five minutes from Amsterdam and it is the easiest good day out in the Netherlands.