As well as all the travelling, the Olympics were also on this summer. I quite like the Olympics, so I was interested to see what other countries thought of it all. A few things I noticed over the last few weeks or so:
Here one had the choice of British, German, Dutch and Flemish TV coverage, [...]
Finally, the tour comes to an end in Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland on the west coast. By this stage of my holiday, I’d pretty much stopped researching things to do and just got on the train (or trains, as the case was).
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The only plan I had was to go to the museum, [...]
The penultimate stop on my Netherlands tour was Maastricht, the most southern city and just over an hour from Eindhoven.
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I’ve made a brief stop in Maastricht before (on my way back from Hasselt), and made a mental note to bring an empty backpack next time for shopping. I ended up not doing much [...]
Stop four on my tour of the Netherlands was De Hoge Veluwe, just near Arnhem. This used to be owned by a wealthy couple. She built a museum, he built a hunting lodge, so everyone was happy. Now it’s the most well known national park in the Netherlands.
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Getting there by public transport is [...]
