3 Hours itinerary between Amsterdam & Utrecht: The Heart Of Holland In A Sidecar

10 min

Nice curvy river. In the 17th and 18th centuries many country estates, known were built on the banks of the Vecht by rich merchants and administrators from Amsterdam.

5 min

An impressive castle from about 1275 AC and now International Business University.

Nice garden.

5 min

Lage Vuursche has a protected village view with several eighteenth and nineteenth century houses and counts dozens of national monuments. The reformed church dates from 1650.

5 min

The original 17th-century building at Soestdijk is an ex-royal palace. From 1937 it was the residence of crown princess and later Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and her german husband Prince Bernhard van Lippe-Biesterfeld.

5 min

The Loosdrechtse Plassen (Lakes of Loosdrecht) are a large water sports and nature area between Amsterdam and Utrecht.

5 min

The Bethune polder is a polder in which recreation and nature conservation are central. Many special animal and plant species are found in the Bethune polder.

5 min

Forest near Lage Vuusche with beautiful 'forest tunnel roads'.

5 min

Not even a village. Very rural. Nice farm houses.

5 min

The Geesina is a flour mill which was probably built in 1843. It is restored and still produces flour.

5 min

A fortress of the New Dutch Water Line Defence System built in the years 1869-1870. Unfortunately in 1940 the Germans were able to fly over it ;-) Not at Almere but near Utrecht.

5 min

13th century castle. The Dutch eighteenth-century French-speaking writer and composer lived here. She was extra-ordinary well educated and quite emancipated. Known for her many books, correspondences and striking statements: 'I have no talent for subordination' and 'I want to be a citizen of "everyone's country".'