Organize your Holydays, Choose Amsterdam to Visit

Netherlands can show you its diverse customs in diverse museums. One of the most curious is “Klompen Museum”. It is the biggest wooden shoes museum in Europe. Years ago, farmers used these shoes because they are cheap, long lasting and safe to work. Now, this custom had missed its popularity. If you want a souvenir, clogs (wooden shoes) would be one.

If you want to do something traditional in Amsterdam, you should visit the canals and take a tour. Amsterdam Hotels can give you more information about Dutch’s habits. Maybe Amsterdam will surprise you for different reasons such as social tolerance, liberal policies toward drugs, prostitution, homosexuality and euthanasia. Now, you know why tourists prefer to visit Holland, especially Amsterdam.

Walk in Vondelpark is relaxing, 120 acres of gardens traversed by footpaths and waterways. However, the best part come between June and August because there are free concerts, open air theatre, and other performances in the small amphitheatre on the island near the centre of the park. Young people around Europe visit Vondelpark in this date and obviously they stay in Amsterdam hotels.

Amsterdam is not a big city, this is one of the reasons to Dutch people prefer to ride a bike instead driving a car. You’ll see more bicycles than cars in Holland’s capital. If you want to rent a bike, also rent a good lock because bike theft is a frequent problem. Prices vary between 10 or 12 Euros per day.

You can not leave Amsterdam if you don’t taste a traditional Dutch food. Rijsttafel is a dish very recommended by local people. A rijsttafel meal consists of different things from 10 to 30 samples of Indonesian dishes, some spicy but all served with mounds of delicious rice. Indonesian restaurants are very common in the Netherlands. In Amsterdam hotels you also can eat, because some prices include breakfast and lunch.