Bulb growing and painting, two subjects in which the Dutch reached mastery. The paintings of Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh, and the spectacular bulb fields in the province Zuid-Holland: two faces of one and the same enjoyable and relaxing tour. Highlights include:
Dutch painting
Historic towncenters
On the Southern Tour Relax you dont cycle more than 40 km per day. That gives you enough time for other fun things: visiting museums, sipping a drink on an outside cafι, relaxing by the seaside or wandering through the center of an old town.
In springtime this tour will be centered around the Tulip theme: see Tulip tour. In the rest of the year the tour offers the possibility to visit several museums, where you can admire the unrivalled work of Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh.
In both tours you will ride through the green heart of Holland, with its meadows, ditches and farms. But you will also have plenty of time to stroll through the historic centers of Delft, Leiden, Haarlem and Amsterdam. | The route from day to day +km | | sat | | Amsterdam, embarkation at 2 PM near Central Station. Sailing to Vianen, round tour, 15 | | sun | | Vianen - Gouda 40 | | mon | | Gouda - Delft 40 | | tue | | Delft via Katwijk Leiden 40 | | wed | | Leiden, round trip Kagerplassen 30 or possible visit Lakenhal museum | | thu | | Leiden Haarlem 37. Possible visit Frans Hals Museum | | fri | | Haarlem - Amsterdam 40. | | sat | | Amsterdam, debarkation before 10 AM near Central Station
| | | 1 km = 0,62 miles | |
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