Travel ideas for the Netherlands – trip tips and recommendations from my experiences travelling in Holland. This European nation has beautiful landscapes, attractive cities, and rich cultural traditions. Here you will find exciting travel ideas for travelling in the Netherlands so start planning your trip now and experience everything that the Netherlands has to offer travellers.
Although I never feel like I’ve done enough travel, looking back over my 2017 travel highlights the Wandering Kiwi family had a great year! It’s important to take a moment and be reminded of all the wonderful experiences we have had in the past year. As well as travels within […]
The Cool Canals guide describes a canal boat holiday as “the fastest way to slow down” and messing about on the inland waterways is a unique holiday experience that can offer as much relaxation or action as you choose. Have lunch at a canalside pub; visit an art gallery; go […]
2015 was my second year on Instagram and looking back over the images is a very satisfying review of a fantastic year of travel, with lifelong bucket list items ticked off and loads of family and personal fun along the way. Here are my most popular Instagram travel posts from […]
The Netherlands is perhaps not so well known internationally for its food, or certainly not in the way that countries like Italy are famous for amazing eating experiences. But over my years of visiting Holland I have slowly discovered more and more Dutch food and come to the conclusion that […]
This is a tour of little heroes; little food heroes enjoyed while exploring one of Amsterdam’s most beautiful and historic districts. Over four hours we followed local host Anna Maria, wandering through the Jordaan discovering tasty tidbits and interesting characters that revealed far more about Amsterdam and the Dutch than […]
This is a tale of land, wind and water that started really when we embarked on the ferry from Harwich in England. The Unesco World Heritage Site of Kinderdijk is only about 50 kilometres from the Hook of Holland so it was an unmissable stop on our road trip through […]
Last winter the Wandering Kiwis made a lunch stop on our Netherlands road trip at the Abbey of Koningshoeven. As I mentioned in my previous post, this is the only Trappiste brewery in the Netherlands and we were keen to add it to our collection of Trappiste monasteries visited (there […]
The Wandering Kiwis have a small obsession with Trappiste beer. That is, beer brewed by Trappist monastery breweries. Not just with drinking it but with visiting the monasteries where it is brewed. This Cistercian religious order originated in La Trappe, France and is marked by strict tenets of self-sufficiency. So […]
2013 has been a big travel year. It saw the Wandering Kiwi family relocate across the world (yet again) from Australia to the United Kingdom. A bit like coming home, except that beautiful New Zealand still hovers in the background of my consciousness. Here is a wrap up of my […]