Looking for windmills, clogs or cheese? We joined the new Hop on Hop off tour to the countryside of Amsterdam and saw it all! This summer a new Hop on Hop off tour introduced itself in Amsterdam; the Hop on Hop off: Cheese, Windmills and Dutch Villages. This tour starts in Amsterdam at the A'DAM LOOKOUT and had 9 stops in the countryside. We decided to join the bus tour and visit the stops that are the least well known. There are several excursions to the Zaanse Schans already, because this windmill village is popular all over the world! Also the fishing villages Volendam and Edam are relatively well known among international crowds. The harbor in Volendam is always worth strolling over, and every Wednesday in Edam this summer there is a really nice cheese market! But, because we already knew these places, we decided to get off at the stops: Broek in Waterland, the Henri Willig Cheese farm, Purmerend and Zaandam. Broek in Waterland: a relieve from the bustling Amsterdam After checking in at the A’DAM LOOKOUT, we got on the bus and enjoyed the informative audiotour on the Hop on, Hop off Holland app. At Broek in Waterland everything is calm and looks a little smaller. Broek in Waterland is a small village, known for its characteristic architecture. After doing the small walking tour, provided on the app, we stopped for coffee at the pancake house and decided Broek was enormously pretty and calm, there were almost no people and the views did now disappoint. With bad weather though, this would be one stop to skip, for it is really zo small and there’s not a lot to do. Cheese farm: Hope you’re not afraid of farm animals! The next stop on our tour was the cheese farm. We
Looking for windmills, clogs or cheese? We joined the new Hop on Hop off tour to the countryside of Amsterdam and saw it all! This summer a new Hop on Hop off tour introduced itself in Amsterdam; the Hop on Hop off: Cheese, Windmills and Dutch Villages. This tour starts in Amsterdam at the A’DAM LOOKOUT
