| AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by grahame at 06:43, 17th December 2025 |     |
Next year in May, I am meeting my cousin and her husband in Amsterdam with a week to ten days do the tourist "thing" on an Interrail trip. Recommendations, please? Here are some pictures from my previous trips. Don't want to be more that one day from Amsterdam at any point ...
Pictured - some options (and I have helped members here by providing transport-oriented pictures)
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by eightonedee at 07:58, 17th December 2025 | |
3 looks like Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, site of my near two hour wait after delayed trains and missed connections earlier this year!
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by brooklea at 08:42, 17th December 2025 | |
The last photo is of the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal.
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by stuving at 09:35, 17th December 2025 | |
2. is Antwerp. Still, probably. But you can order them online for shipping from China, any size you want ...
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by Oxonhutch at 09:36, 17th December 2025 | |
4: In foreign climes, an instruction - in English regarding yachts measured in feet - looks totally out of place.
Spike Milligan, "A pound of foreign climes please!".
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by PrestburyRoad at 10:29, 17th December 2025 | |
5 is so atmospheric and makes me feel cold just looking at it. It's on the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen (courtesy of the engine number). I don't know which station, but if pressed I'd guess from the amount of mist that it's at the summit terminus in the Brocken mountains.
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by grahame at 11:18, 17th December 2025 | |
The places pictured are
My pictures are of ...
1. Rotterdam
2. Antwerp
3. Hamburg
4. Helsingor
5. The Brocken
6. Wuppertal
and for the trip next May, (re)visits or perhaps a selection to include
* Enkhuizen
* Keukenhof
* Cuxhaven / Bremerhaven
* Niebull / Westerland / Tonder / Esbjerg
* Koln
* Brugges
* Madurodam
* Delft
* Wismar / Rostock
Some I have visited .. others new to me. Any thoughts?
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by PrestburyRoad at 11:35, 17th December 2025 | |
Definitely Bruges. I happily sent several days there just strolling round the old streets with their canals. And if you happen to be there when the carillon in the belfry tower is played that's a bonus.
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by johnneyw at 12:14, 17th December 2025 | |
Definitely Bruges. I happily sent several days there just strolling round the old streets with their canals. And if you happen to be there when the carillon in the belfry tower is played that's a bonus.
I would concur with PrestburyRoad there. Even after three visits over the years, I would still delight in simply strolling around the old town at both day and night. A short canal boat trip up to the village of Damme also has it's rewards.Nearby Ostend also has it's own, but rather different offerings, not least of them being on the Belgian coastal tram route.
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by Richard Fairhurst at 14:05, 17th December 2025 | |
Or a few kilometres further inland, Ghent is just as special - partly for strolling around, and partly for transport geeks to see how they have reclaimed the city centre from cars.
| Re: AQ17 - where would you of within a daytime journey from Amsterdam? Posted by CyclingSid at 16:27, 17th December 2025 | |
If you haven't been there before you might try Het Scheepvaart (National Maritime) Museum https://www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/
No steam trains but they have a steam icebreaker.
