Things to do in the Netherlands once in a lifetime

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1. Manage to, legally, view a landing from the cockpit of a plane approaching Schiphol airport and experience that strange sensation that comes from touching land… 3 meters below sea level. Entangle just enough in its universe of shops, bars and sponsored corners.

two. shine bicycle expertise arriving in Amsterdam and getting lost, out of the blue, in the idyllic alleys and bridges of the Jordaan neighbourhood.

3. Stand in line so as not to miss the tangible myth of Anne Frank and her house, as well as the great Dutch classics at the highly renovated Rijksmuseum. Distinguish a painting by Van Gogh between so many display gadgets and modernity in your own museum.

Four. To make a toast , although it is not the zenith of gourmet, with some good beers at the Heineken Experience after having experienced that tour-ode to malt juice.

5. Flirting with the hallucinogen in any coffee shop even if it is as a mere spectator.

Amsterdam and its bikes

Show off your cycling skills in Amsterdam

6. Late night with the neons dilating the pupils by the decadent and at times unnecessarily truculent red light district . Find the tourist spot among the art, oddities and provocations of the Erotic Museum.

7. Change into Japanese tourist/Sunday man when approaching Volendam and stroll among its docks, traditional houses and women dressed in folk costumes . Continue with this contact with the folkloric sailing to marken.

8. Return to the Disney universe sailing the seas of tulips that color the provinces of Holland , west of Amsterdam.

9. Take any summer Friday to get closer to alkmaar and enjoy the folk show that is assembled in the cheese market. Take advantage of the getaway to enjoy the Gothic of buildings such as the weighing house or the Church of San Lorenzo.

10. Border your channels until you find modernities like the fantastic new town hall.

Volendam

Volendam, overdose folklore

eleven. Sail to the island of Texel to fall in love with the melancholy of the maritime landscapes of the north, of those lonely lighthouses and those beaches and dunes without swimsuits.

12. Contemplate the natural show produced by the water , the marshes and the sand in the Wadden Islands . Understand, from here, how important the dikes are to trap the water and not let it nibble or flood the land.

13. Obvious that it is a tourist attraction while discovering the different 'modest' monuments in Zaanse Schans.

14. instagram like a teenager any backlit windmill.

15.**Go around cyclists or join them in Haarlem** , the city with the name of a New York neighborhood (well, it's the other way around) where Dutch architectural grace is summed up: canals, brick buildings, locks that are porticos and handlebars by everywhere

16. Implore the gods so that the sun appears a little and make the beach huts bloom Zandvoort, the most vintage and sun-and-beach getaway in the west of the country.

17. Spring on the idyllic carpets of almost fictitious flowers in the park of Keukenhof .

Texel Islands Lighthouse

Texel Islands Lighthouse

18. Fardar of geek anecdote to colleagues when you explain that Den Haag does not translate literally as Hague , but as the hedge or the wooden fence.

19. Leave the anecdote aside to become a bit monarchical among its sober palaces, state headquarters and famous courts. Scan that new skyline where the peaks of contemporary buildings appear between centennial scaled roofs.

twenty. Send to walk any museum concept that you have when enjoying the paranoia and trompe l'oeil at the EscherMuseum. Say hello to the Girl with a Pearl Earring at the ever-popular Mauritshuis.

twenty-one. Connect this city with its neighbor Rotterdam by Metro.

22. Stop for a while in the wonderful Schiedam, the town where the tallest old-style windmills in the world are located and where – bless them – they invented Jenever, the root of the fantastic gin.

Rotterdam a history of tablecloths

Rotterdam: a history of tablecloths

23. Avoid Rotterdam's modernity and aluminum binge by starting your tour at Delfshaven , the only port portion that survived the bombing and that today is a lung of history and exposed brick.

24. Sunset in front of the Erasmus bridge , enjoying one of the most beautiful metallic landscapes of old Europe, with the NHOW and the Hotel New York in the background.

25. be the first to claims the Cape as the new mecca of foodie gentrification , with the Paul Posse café and the Fenix ​​Food Factory as flag.

26. Break your neck before the amazing Markthal Sky, the perfect horseshoe that guards a market and that has managed to embellish the external image of the city. Look, after this overdose of colorinchis, to the cube houses as an outdated and unnecessary icon.

27. Toggle Like There's No Tomorrow by Witte de Whit, where you can go out for a bohemian coffee and end up hugging lampposts without liturgies or batting an eyelid.

Phoenix Food Factory

Claims El Cabo as the foodie neighborhood of Rotterdam

28. Return to peace and solemnity sailing through the Maas to the giant windmills kindergarten.

29. Getting to Gouda for its dairy namesake and stay for being a real discovery, with flamboyant and impressive buildings such as its Town Hall or the church of Saint John Baptist.

30. learn that the old zealand It is the great area of ​​the estuaries in the southwest of the country, where attractions dedicated to the sea appear, such as the MuZEEum (Vlissingem), the zierikzee towers or the promenade of **Wielingen (Cadzan) **, the longest work of art in Europe.

31. Surrender to Breda (sorry for the hackneyed pun) in corners like your Beguinage or the Grote Kerk.

32. win at trivia arguing with anyone about whether this nation is called Netherlands (in theory good, because that's how they all add up) u Holland (in theory bad, because it refers only to the most western and populated provinces) . Conclude in a tie because of the good vibes and what it is about a manual geographic synecdoche.

MuZEEum

learning in old zealand

33. Get Eindhoven dancing as if it were not the ugliest and thus find a city aesthetic that is expressed in contemporary buildings, glass and iconic shapes such as its airport, the Philips museum, the Van Abbe museum, or the building 'The blob' of Fuksas located in the September 18 square.

3. 4. To think that you are in Cádiz going through the white corners of the town of thorn.

35. Kick Maastricht to verify that it is pure history and that, despite the inclemencies of history, it is still very young.

36. Inundate yourself with history going through the veins of the fortress and the kilometers of tunnels of the San Pedro caves.

37. Terrace quietly in the Market Square and the port of bassin.

38. Take off the monkey and the curiosity for the TEFAF by quenching the craving for art at the Bonnefantenmuseum's heterogeneous museum.

39. escape to Valkenburg pere enjoy the province of Limburg in a very gentle dose.

bassin

Bassin, the Dutch Cadiz

40. Find art like the one that finds mushrooms in the national park of Hoge Veluwe , where spaces such as the Kröller-Müller museum and its dozens of Van Goghs or the Het Loo Palace They justify the kilometers.

41. Travel back in time in the enchanting and embalmed towns of Hattem, Wageningen and Elburg.

42. Understand that arnhem is a city devoted to fashion kicking the neighborhood of Klarendel and the Aretz Fashion Academy.

43. Salivate and fall into the temptation of savoring any town named after cheese .

44. Demystify that the north is soulless by alternating modernity with tradition in the buildings of Groningen.

Hoge Veluwe National Park

Hoge Veluwe National Park

Four. Five. Conquer the walls of Dokkum and its 'warrior' channels.

46. Get ahead of trends and capitals knowing Leeuwarden , future European cultural capital where everything, absolutely everything is cute, even the timid skyscrapers.

47. Buy, live, take the children to school etc. over the waters of Giethoorn, a small town where the streets have been replaced by avenues of water.

Giethoor

Giethoor: there are no streets here, only canals

48. Nominate the Oudegracht as the most emblematic canal in the Netherlands and the main artery for revelry and promenade in Utrecht.

49. Praising Utrecht older crowning the tower of the cathedral and leveling the gates of De Haar castle, the largest and most monumental in all of the Netherlands.

fifty. Walk at night looking for the different points of the Trajectum Lumen , an artistic route where light and illumination become art.

51. To bless its reconversion into a city for lovers of architecture before buildings like the house Rietveld–Schröder and the avant-garde and colorful buildings of the By Uithof , the university neighborhood.

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