After spending 5 days based in Amsterdam, we were ready to drive out of the city. After a fuss-free experience of heading back to Schipol and picking up our car, we headed north east on the motorway to Hindeloopen in Friesland – our first stop on our road trip.
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Netherlands Tour: Utrecht and Haarlem (Day trips from Amsterdam)
Continuing my series of posts on our Dutch travels today, with two places within half an hour’s train journey from Amsterdam that provide a great day of sightseeing. First up, Utrecht. A city dating as far back as 1st century AD, this was a simply beautiful place, and is noteable for its canals being below…
Netherlands Tour: Amsterdam
I’m finally getting round to sharing some pictures and tales of what we got up to on our two week tour of the Netherlands last month. We started off with five days in the dutch capital of Amsterdam (which was stress-free in getting to, thanks to direct flights to Schipol from Inverness, and an easy…