For our November Fall break, we drove north a few hours to Haarlem, Netherlands and stayed for a few days. It's a pretty university town about 15-20 minutes outside Amsterdam. The city is bustling full of students on bikes. We stayed on a quaint street not too far from this lovely canal. For 2 days, we traveled into Amsterdam by walking through this pretty park and riding a train into Amsterdam. Once there, we explored the insteresting cultural neighborhoods, visited a museum, had dinner with Mike's cousin, Kees & just enjoyed the Fall weather.
Here we are on a walk from our apartment in Haarlem to the train station to head into Amsterdam for the day.
Check out all that beautiful Fall color!
homes along the canal
more lovely homes & park
the canal
This part of Haarlem seemed quite nice and comfortable. How nice would it be to live a more tranquil life in Haarlem, but be only 15-20 minutes to Amsterdam.
some of the homes along the canal (all attached row houses)
late Fall
handsome boys!
train station in Haarlem
Amsterdam
interesting buildings
Flemish stepped gable and cool shutters
bikes, bikes,....& more bikes
narrow buildings with interesting gable ends (bell gable, etc)
from 1653
Park your bike anywhere you can find space, but good luck finding it later! ;)
Having fun in Amsterdam!
We enjoyed a day of meandering around the city neighborhoods.
pretty city
Museum district
And we also went to the Van Gogh museum.
I amsterdam (see the boys at the "r" and the "d")
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