Trip in Netherlands

In this blog I would like to give some help and advice what places you should visit in Netherlands while you are here in this country. The first what is comes to every people mind is tulips, wind mills but in this blog I hope I can give you a new student friendly perspectives about Holland. But before you start to read my blog you should watch this video about Netherlands. The guy in this video talking about the life in Holland and also talking about how they are thinking about the world.

First I would like to talk about Eindhoven. I think most of us know the Phillips company, and Eindhoven is famous for this, because here was building the first Philips factory. Now this factory adapted as a museum.

Here in Eindhoven the first what you have to do after the arrival is purchasing a bicycle. Because this is the easiest way to travel in the city and of course I think this a typical dutch life feeling. You can not leave out this. The city center is a good place, there are modern buildings, shops, restaurants, plaza and everything what you need. Here you can find the center of night life. There is a street with full of bars, discos and its name is Stratumseind. Here in this street there are lots of good parties and the best places maybe Peppers, Arcade or TIpsy duck.

City center

Stratum

I know most of the erasmus students come here because of fun and Holland is famous for lot of good djs, who comes from here, so here everyone can find really good music festivals too. For example Flying dutch, Extreme outdoor, or We are electric. Now I would like to show you some video about these festivals.

Flying dutch

Lake dance

For them who do not like the noisy activities and who wants just relaxing nature programs, I can offer for them the lakes. Not far from the city center there are two lakes, one of them is a beach, and the other one is a natural lake where you can do picnic with your friends and it can be a really cozy feeling.  But you can do bicycle trip around Eindhoven or just around the lake because bicycle can gives you a great opportunity to do this.

If you are interested in Eindhoven’s factory history, you should go to Phillips Museum. Here you can get information about the first Phillips factory and you also can get information about the technology development. Anyways the Phillips Museum is front of the Witte Dame, and as you know our school is in this building, so you do not have to walk much if you want to visit this museum.

Phillips Museum

The next best destination after Eindhoven is the capital city of Netherlands. It is not else than Amsterdam. There are a lot of good and exciting places here, so you should stay at least 2 days to visit everything and enjoy the time here.  You should visit the Dam square. In Dam square you can find Madame Tussauds museum, Royal palace. Not far from Dam square with tram5 you can find the famous IAmsterdam sign where you can take typical Amsterdam pictures.If somebody interested in art, then those people can not leave out the Van Gogh Museum. Not just Djs but lot of famous painters comes from Holland.

After when you visited here the places and if you walk maybe 10 minutes you can find the amazing Vondelpark. Really beautiful place where you can take a little break and just enjoy your trip and the nature because Amsterdam can be really crowded because of the lot of tourists. If you would like to learn about how beer is made, you should try the Heineken Experience and this is not far from Vondelpark, so it is easy to find the place.

Amsterdam also famous about canals, a little walk in the little streets can give you a perfect dutch experiments. If you like water trips, be sure to pay on a canal boat tour where you can pick different themes, such as sightseeing tours from canals. 

At night in the city center you cannot leave out the Red Light District, it is not depending on you are boy or girl. It is a thing what you have to see.  Of course, even part of the night life that you should sit around and try a coffe shops in Amsterdam. In red light district there is a coffee shop company and its name is Bulldog coffe shops so I think you should try this one.

Next day, my advice for you to visit Keukenhof park and it is organized trip and maybe 40-50 km far from Amsterdam. Here is the world’s biggest tulips park, really beautiful art place, but the problem is that, it is open just in spring months.

The second biggest city is Rotterdam. Here you should visit the Erasmus statue and Erasmus bridge. If I can give you another advice, then my advice would be visit the Markthal at night.  Markthal is the market of Rotterdam, but the building is really amazing especially at night. The colors the architecture are perfect. Not far from the Markthal there is a “harbor” and there is a little tiny but cute red ship bar& restaurant and if you can, please try this bar out.  If you want to visit mills here you can do it, because next to Rotterdam there is plece and its name is Kinderdijk where there are 19 mills. It has a history that is why the “KIinderdijk” name. If you would like to know more about this, you can get information if you visit the place.

Next one is Hague. Hague is the third biggest city in Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Hague is the currently base of the country's public administration. Here the most beautiful place is the Scheveningen beach. You can reach it with tram. Here you can finds restaurants on the beach and souvenirs shops. Perfect place to take a little break from school. The city center is beautiful so be sure to take a little walk there too.

We talked about what was our favourite trip and Jani Ambrus Ágota and me deal with that the best  place was Amsterdam. 

In my opinion, it is important to see these four cities before you leave the country. I hope you can use this blog post when you will book, or organize your own trip.

I hope you like it and if you have any comment please do not hesitate to write to me.