Netherlands Tour June 2025

[Julia9054]

Enjoy your trip!

Have you cycled through the Hoge Veluwe? That and the dunes between Scheveningen and Zandvoort are my favourites.

The whole Dutch/German language thing is too confusing for my simple brain. The Easy Dutch youtube videos are good to hear the language as it is

We have mostly stuck to the western coast on previous holidays so are familiar with the dunes but inland is a new area for us. We passed through Utrecht briefly on the way back from Germany last summer and are looking forward to spending 2 nights there so we can explore a bit.
Will check out the youtube videos. Dutch sounds very different to how it looks!

 

[mjr]

Dutch sounds very different to how it looks!

Since the last spelling reforms, Dutch in fact sounds almost exactly how it looks, but it is very different to how words looking like that would sound in English or German!

 

[arranandy]

That's our trip all done. Back at work today. We got the overnight ferry from North Shields to Ijmuiden and and a quick summary of the tour is as follows
Day 1 - Ijmuiden to Den Haag via Zandvoort and Noordwijk ann Zee (65km)
Day 2 - Den Haag to Lekkerkerk via Delft and Gouda (62km)
Day 3 - Lekkerkerk to Doedrecht including 3 hours visiting the windmills etc at KInderdijk (21km + ferry)
Day 4 - Dordrecht to Bergen op Zoom via Numansdorp and Willemstad (72km)
Day 5 - BoZ to Breda via Essen in Belgium (52km)
Day 6 - day in Breda
Day 7 - Train from Breda to Amsterdam then cycle from Amsterdam to Ijmuiden via Haarlem (34km)

Photos to follow

Already thinking of doing it again next year

Amazing cycling infrastructure

 

[grldtnr]

That's the reason to go of course the amazing infrastructure,, plus it's generally clean and tidy, The drawbacks are it can be very windy and urbanized

 

[mjr]

And what was the luggage decision @arranandy and how did it work out?

And, of course, is the bike OK?

 

[arranandy]

And what was the luggage decision @arranandy and how did it work out?

And, of course, is the bike OK?

We had 2 x 32l panniers each and I had a small Ortlieb handlebar bag. My partner had a beltbag for her inhaler, tissues etc.

I had the right amount of spare clothes (on and off bike) and toiletries. My partner actually thinks she had too much with her - mind you she had hair straighteners with her and

Bikes were faultless

 

[arranandy]

Deh Haag

Dordrecht

Bergen op Zoom

Kinderdijk

Willemstad