This 4-day round trip gives you most of the highlights of The Netherlands. In a pleasant pace we will navigate the country and see windmills, dykes and polders. Little villages, medieval cities and water works are in the programme as well, just as a harbour tour through Rotterdam and, not so nice but very interesting, the Camp where Anne Frank was deported from.
Top it off with some Belgium beer in a Dutch pub or brewery, add some Delft Blue pottery, a bit of art and a view of the Government buildings and you will have had a splendid time in The Netherlands.

Included: guiding services, boat rental, mileage and fuel, lunches, hotel half board, admittance fees, overhead costs
Excluded: evening diners, souvenirs and personal expenses

Itinerary:
Day 1: Pick-up and introduction at Zaanse Schans Windmills cultural heritage site. Over to other side IJssel lake via enclosure dyke. Visit water village of Giethoorn.
Day 2: Visit to the 19th century village of Orvelte and after lunch a visit to deportation Camp Westerbork. Drive through the scenic IJssel River Valley to the medieval city of Deventer. Evening city walk on our way for diner. Possible drinks at Dutch bar or small brewery.
Day 3: Visit castle of Loevestein, harbour tour Rotterdam, the biggest harbour in the world, and a visit to Rotterdam city Centre (modern architecture).
Day 4: Visit to the medieval city of Delft including a visit to the Royal Delft Blue factory. Visit to the Dutch government buildings and the king’s work palace. Visit to the Peace Palace and the beautiful “Panorama Mesdag”

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This 3-day trip starts and ends at you hotel of choice every day. The three days give you most of the highlights of The Netherlands outside Amsterdam. Visiting a working windmill, learn about cheese and visiting a castle is all part of it all. During our day-trips we will see a lot of Dutch landscapes including our polders, the water village of Giethoorn as a result of peat moor excavations and get a good feel of medieval cities other then Amsterdam as well. Rotterdam as the biggest harbour in the world is worth a visit with a harbour tour.

Included: guiding services, boat rental, mileage and fuel, lunches, hotel half board, admittance fees, overhead costs
Excluded: evening diners, souvenirs and personal expenses

Itinerary:
Day 1: Pick-up and introduction at Zaanse Schans Windmills cultural heritage site. Visit the old fishermen’s village of Marken and a visit to the Muiderslot castle.
Day 2: Drive to the harbour of Rotterdam where we will have a harbour tour. A visit to the Royal Delft Blue factory and a city walk in our governmental capital The Hague including the government builings complete the day. If time let’s us we will visit the international Peace Palace where the International Court of Justice has its seat.
Day 3: Drive through the polders to the water village of Giethoorn where no cars can go. Here we will have a private boat tour. Via the valley of the river IJssel with it’s beautiful scenery we go to the beautiful restored medieval city of Deventer. Raided by the vikings in 882 DC, later on this city became the refuge city for the Bishop of Utrecht and one of the most important and successful Dutch cities in the Hanseatic trading union.

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From the dunes and the seaside to the Dutch mountains end ending in the peat-moor swamp, this tour will lead you through some of the Dutch landscapes. Zooming in on nature values as well as ecology and farming, there is still time left for art and history when we visit the Kröller-Müller museum (Van Gogh/modern art/sculptures) and one of the oldest cities in The Netherlands Deventer. Deventer also is one of the best kept and restored cities in The Netherlands but not yet discovered by mass-tourism. On our way back we go through the world famous Dutch polders.

Do you want to see The Netherlands in a more active way? Looking for a Nature guide more then for a city guide? Come and join me on this 4 day roundtrip walking, biking, canoeing and sightseeing. Let the blood flow and ease your mind.
Although active, the tour can be done by everyone who is capable of walking 5 miles, with a fair break if necessary. The canoeing can be changed for a trip in an electrical boat.

Included: guiding services, rent of bikes and canoes, mileage and fuel, lunches, hotel half board, admittance fees, overhead costs
Excluded: evening diners, souvenirs and personal expenses

Itinerary:
Day 1: Pick-up and introduction at Zaanse Schans Windmills cultural heritage site. Afternoon bike riding and walking through the dunes and at the beach; evening walk  (optional)
Day 2: 5 mile walk at lateral moraine hills, Dutch pancakes and moving around on a self-bike train lorry; evening walk (optional)
Day 3: Biking in a national park with a visit to the local museum (Van Gogh paintings, art, sculptures), lunch in the field with Dutch cheeses and Dutch wine, city walk in the medieval city of Deventer. Evening walk and Belgium beers in a Dutch brown cafe/brewery.
Day 4: Canoeing in the peat-moor swamp and return through the polders. End of tour

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The Netherlands…we do have a nice collection of famous painters here. Rembrandt, van Gogh, Vermeer being the most famous ones, but there are many, many more. Personally I like van Gogh very much because of the emotion in his work but I am very fond as well of a modern artist like Henk Helmantel (see the picture below). And I like painting myself….so why not combine it in a tour? And why not paint by our selves? Sure, why not!

This 4 day roundtrip is built in a daily similar  set up: In the morning we visit a museum of high standard and after lunch, filled with inspiration and Dutch cheese, we go for it ourselves. And if the weather forecast is bad for the afternoon we turn it around or paint at a sheltered place. We will be working on Canvas panels that you can easily put in your suit case to bring back home (or I will send them afterwards) and with acrylics. Admittance fees and material up to 4 boards is included in the price; extra boards or the wish to use oil-paint on request. Painting locations variable and as such not listed.

Included: guiding services, mileage and fuel, lunches, hotel half board, admittance fees, overhead costs, paints, acrylic paint, 4 boards, painter’s easel
Excluded: evening diners, souvenirs and personal expenses

Itinerary:
Day 1: Pick-up and a visit to Rembrandt’s house, where he lived and worked.
Day 2: Visit to museum Kröller-Müller near Arnheim. This museum, started from a private collection, has modern art as the basic art form. It has a very big collection of Van Gogh’s next to Picasso, Renoir, Mondriaan and many others and also a garden with statues.
Day 3: Visit to museum “De Fundatie” in the city of Zwolle. The museum has the mission “to exhibit the finest expressions of the human spirit from all times and by all peoples” ; art from all ages and inspiration from different angles guaranteed.
Day 4: Visit to “museum More” which stands for MOdern REalisme. Te museum has a wonderful private collection of famous Dutch painters like Jan Mankes, Carel Willink and Jan Toorop (see pictures below).
At the end of the day we say good-bye, most likely in Amsterdam or somewhere close. 

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