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A bus takes us to the 5500 hectar Hoge Veluwe National
Park in Gelderland. It opened in 1938 and is the largest
in Holland. Included in the price of admission is use of any
of the more than one hundred white bicycles provided by the park. Winding Paths take you through expanses of grassland, sand drifts, forests, and moors where you can see wild deer, boar, and many species of birds among the wildlife. The museums in the National Park include the Museonder, the world's first underground museum where you can walk underneath the entire root system of a 135 year old beech tree -- almost 80 square meters. On the grounds is the Park's vast sculpture garden. Museum Kroller Muller has an enormous collection of Van Goghs as well as 19th and 20th century art from impressionism to modernism. After the museum have a pile of pancakes in the cafeteria on the Park grounds. |
Next stop. The two thousand year old city of Maastricht.
An overnight at the luxurious Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza. You'll be cycling around the area over cobblestones and paved streets past row houses. You can choose from some 7 or 8 cruise companies to take you along the Maas River. The city's walls and underground forts tell the story of a turbulent warring past while prosperous centuries are evident in churches, mansions and treasure houses. In modern life the Dutch are as interesting and varied as Americans in
their dress and tastes. This southernmost region of Holland
bordering Belgium and Germany is also a University town. Galleries, theatre, museums, architecture, culinary delights. There are also shops of all varieties. Fashions, antiques, you name it. You can even find a Dolls museum there called Poppenmuseum on Grote Gracht 41 which houses an exhibit of 400 children's dolls dating 1780 thru 1950. Maastricht also has a wine growing and brewing area along its border. |
Maastricht also has the latest in hi-tech
production facilities, a National Cycle Day, the Dutch Dance festival, an International Dog Show, Food festivals, and more. Begin
a bicycle ride after breakfast and you can
make it to Luxembourg for lunch or even Paris on a day trip. An adventure is visiting Valkenburg. Between Maastricht and
Valkenburg you can explore cave dwellings
which would take years to go through with
its 20,000 passages at Mount St. Peter just
south of Maastricht in de Rotswoning.
On the other end of the cultural spectrum
is the Holland Casino in Odapark with its Martijn and Kees Verkade sculptures is twenty minues from Maastricht. It is one
of the only places in Holland a strict dress
code is enforced. The minimum age: 18. |
How Far Can
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