Driving through Holland Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text On the morning of May 24 we picked up our rental car in the suburbs of Amsterdam and headed for Ghent in Belgium. The road really isn't supposed to take more than 2,5 hours if you go on the highway, but we were planning on spending the whole day on it, stopping at a few places. We had high hopes for the areas right outside Amsterdam where our guidebook said we can see fields of tulips from mid-April to mid-May. May 24 was pushing the idea of "mid May," but we thought it can't be that precise. It turned out it can - we probably saw a total of 5 tulips along the way. While looking for tulips, we ended up driving on really small roads and getting lost many many times. We visited the little town of Lisse maybe 3-4 times, none of them intentionally. The fact that I was driving a stick-shift car was also adding to the stress and limited our options in terms of parking (I wouldn't dare attempt to parallel park with a stick-shift at that point). We stopped for lunch in a little town called Sussenheim, which was supposed to have a castle according to our guidebook, but didn't. It had, however, a nice store with many many different types of cheese and we got some creamy cheese with pineapple which was really good. Don't put anything here Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Don't put anything here Logo Content Template Page Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Don't put anything here Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel
