Hello hello and welcome back to a new blogpost - it’s time for a travel guide today!
In early may I spent a week in the Netherlands in Alkmaar with my family and what can I say - it’s such a beautiful country and I totally fell in love with it! All the pretty streets, the town canals, all the beautiful houses and cute restaurants and cafés - pretty much everything.
Alkmaar is an incredibly pretty city and from there we also made a few trips to other cities including Amsterdam, Hoorn and Egmond - so here’s a little Netherland-Guide to share some impressions with you!
ALKMAAR
Alkmaar is where we lived during our stay in the Netherlands - we had an apartment directly in the center of the city which was amazing! We explored the city, did a little bit of shopping as well and made a tour with a boat through the town canals, which I can really recommend to try - because you get to see the city of a different perspective. As an alternative to a guided boat tour you can also rent a boat on your own and kind of create your own tour which I would probably do the next time since I actually prefer to explore new cities or other new places in general on my own without a guide - but the tour we made was still worth it too.
AMSTERDAM
Since Amsterdam is pretty close to Alkmaar (it just took us a little bit more than 30 minutes to get there with the train) we took advantage of that and decided to make a day trip to the capital of the Netherlands too.
Whenever I visit a new city I love to just stroll around the streets without having a concrete plan where to go and what to visit - so that’s pretty much what we did the day we explored Amsterdam. But we still visited some of the popular sights as well - such as the flower market or the Jordan-Quarter wich is supposed to be the most beautiful quarter in Amsterdam and I definitely can agree with that!
HOORN
Another day we decided to go to Hoorn which is another beautiful city - located directly at the IJsselmeer and definitely worth a visit too. And again we just strolled through the city, took a break at a café and also went to see the IJsselmeer.
EGMOND
Another city we visited was Egmond. We rented a bike in Alkmaar and made a bike trip to the city. During that bike trip we came across a lot of fields with tulips and other flowers which was very pretty. When we arrived in Egmond we first went to the beach (it was too cold to swim tho, hahah) and then walked along the streets and once again had a little break with coffee and the best waffles in a cute café.
Alright, this was my little travel guide and my impressions of the Netherlands, I really hope you enjoyed it. Have you ever been to the Netherlands? And if yes - what are your favorite cities and favorite spots there? Let me know in the comments!
Enjoy your day,
xx Franzi
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