(Confession time: biking through the tulips fields has been put off because it felt like something we could do anytime, and now months away from the end of this adventure, we still hadn't done it!)
We packed up the car and drove less than two hours to the middle of tulip country. We had found a place that rents kid sized bikes as well at the standard bikes, so we picked up our bikes and a map and were off!
First stop was lunch, at a great cafe on a lake by the fields. Then biking through fragrant fields of hyacinths, through forests with deer grazing and on to the dunes.
We rented a cute renovated gypsy trailer to stay in, on a lake outside Amsterdam. It was an old peat harvesting lake and currently a popular boating area. The kids were excited to "camp" and even convinced us to have a campfire.
The next day, we went into Amsterdam to see the Dutch Masters in the Rijks Museum. Wow! 2 hrs in an we saw half of one collection! So many famous works.
And, as the weather held and was still amazingly gorgeous on the way home, we took a detour to the seaside at Schreivenegen just outside Den Haag. This is the Dutch beach playground, with restaurants and entertainment everywhere. The kids especially loved that the beach front restaurants had trampolines and bouncy castles.
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