Comments on: An Amsterdam Weekend

By: William Gould

William Gould — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:47:24 +0000

I was also forgetting the good/frequent/cheap train system in Holland makes day trips easy. We went to Haarlem last time, a very quaint old town. Just over 10 Euros return for the two of us and under 20 minutes journey time.
There was a fabulous market in the main square, but that made it VERY busy and difficult to see the Gothic buildings and monuments. We may go again this coming year on a non market day.

By: Paula

Paula — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:33:28 +0000

In reply to William Gould. What great tips! I definitely will be visiting again so will have to do some of these, our first trip was more touristy so looking forward to seeing different aspects!

By: William Gould

William Gould — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:48:52 +0000

We go to Amsterdam frequently as it’s 45 minutes from our local airport. We stay in an AirBnB away from the centre in the Oude West area, where there’s a bakers on every other corner and lots of other fabulous places to eat! In fact we hardly go into the centre at all now!
De Hallen (The old tram sheds) is full of boutique shops and has a fabulous food hall, with cuisines from around the world. We always have a burger from The Butcher in there! Delicious!
On the North side of town there’s Westerpark. A lovely park made in the grounds of the old gas works. Again there’s a few boutique shops and cafes, and also a fabulous market on the first Sunday in every month! We now book our holidays to make sure we are in Amsterdam for that!
I could go on, but I’m sure there’s loads of places we haven’t discovered yet!