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Cookenhof?? Gardens
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:40:41 -0000, "Natalie"
wrote: My brief is the Gardens, the Tulip Fields and a visit to Amsterdam with a Barge trip. I have to plan it for 30 April - 4 May 2004. Quite a way off I know, but the AGM is at the end of this month when I have to present the whole thing. So far one coach load but I think it just may be more :-)) Any input welcomed Many thanks Mike I personally wouldn't bother visiting Amsterdam...unless your group is interested in the Anne Frank House or Art Museums. Delft and Leiden are much nicer towns with all the charm of the Dutch canals. The bulb fields are amazing and can be seen just driving around the area. There are boat trips where you go past an incredible number of windmills. I wouldn't knock yourself out to get to Amsterdam because you won't have time to do it justice in one visit and it is easy to get to by air, or by ferry and coach, from the UK, so you can do it another time. We have been to Amsterdam a number of times and tick a few more things off each time (our current favourite is the Van Gogh Museum) . We did a day trip to Leiden on one visit (Dutch trains are excellent and Leiden is on the main line between Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam). We found it much as Natalie describes, compared to Amsterdam, and decided to base ourselves in the area next time we went to Holland. That was last summer, when we actually stayed at Noordwijk-aan-Zee (mind the Gatso on the road out of Noordwijk towards Leiden, it has a hair trigger...). We went to the Leiden Botanical Gardens on our first visit to the town. It is not brilliantly signposted, so try to find a map, or take a circular canal trip which will go past it. I thought it was very interesting but then I haven't been to Kew. Irene has been to Kew and said it was on a completely different scale (which I think I had already guessed). We like Holland, so may be biased, but I think you will find it difficult not to enjoy yourselves unless the trip is particularly badly organised. Just mind the cakes in those coffee shops... -- Stuart Baldwin news\at/boxatrix\dot/co\dot/uk |
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