The Netherlands
The Netherlands is a very big small country, and full of salutary surprises. A chief pleasure of the place is its lively contrast between pragmatic liberalism and the buttoned-up just-so primness of a culture founded on Calvinist principles. The Netherlands is easy to travel in and the locals are friendly and speak excellent English, but many towns are still surrounded by canals and castle walls, the endlessly flat landscape which inspired the nation's early artists still stretches unbroken to the horizons, and dykes still occasionally threaten to give way.
's-Hertogenbosch
Aalsmeer
Alblasserdam
Alkmaar
Apeldoorn
Arnhem
Bergambacht
Bruinisse
Château Neercanne
Cuijk
Delft
Delfzijl
Delta Works
Deltawerken
Den Helder
Deventer
Dordrecht
Enkhuizen
Epe
Flevoland
Friesland
Giethorn
Gorinchem
Gouda
Groesbeek
Groningen
Haarlem
Haarzuilens
Harlingen
Hellevoetsluis
Het Loo
Heusden
Holland
Hoorn
Huizen
IJssel River
Ijsselmeer
Kampen
Keukenhof
Kinderdijk
Kroller-Muller Museum
Kröller-Müller Museum, Hoge Veluwe
Kruiningen
Leiden
Lek River
Lisse
Maastricht
Makkum
Middelburg
Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten
Nijmegen
North Sea Canal
North Sea Channel
Nuenen
Oosterbeek
Oosterschelde
Ouwerkerk
Reichsburg
Rotterdam
Santpoort
Scheveningen
Schoonhoven
Staphorst
Terneuzen
The Hague
Tholen
Tiel
Utrecht
Veere
Venlo
Vianen
Villssingen
Vlissingen
Volendam
Waal & Merwede Rivers
Wadden Islands
Walcheren
West Frisian Islands
Wijk bij Duurstede
Woerden
Zeeland
Zutphen