The Randstad (Amsterdam & Rotterdam)3 places
- RotterdamThe Dutch city with no old town, because the Luftwaffe erased it in a single afternoon in 1940 — and the one that…
- UtrechtAmsterdam's canals without Amsterdam's crowds, and with a twist the capital doesn't have: the Oudegracht runs a full…
- Amsterdam's Canal RingA city built as a set of concentric canal rings four centuries ago, still lined with narrow leaning merchant houses…
The South & East2 places
- MaastrichtThe Netherlands' oldest city and its least Dutch: a Roman river crossing turned Burgundian town on the Belgian and…
- De Hoge Veluwe & the Kröller-MüllerA national park of heath and pine you cross on free white bikes left out for anyone, with one of the world's great Van…
The North (Friesland & the Wadden)1 place
- The Wadden Sea & Mudflat WalkingThe largest unbroken system of tidal mudflats on Earth, where at low water you can walk for hours across the sea floor…