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A One Week Bike Trip in Holland

Further Reading

General Information

• Visit Holland has lots of tourist and visitor information.
  
• Lonely Planet is an excellent source for general information.
  
• Budget Travel is a great starting point, with lots of links to other sites.
  
• The Yahoo! Destination Guides pages will link you to many, many sites with travel information.
  
• Also an good site is the xs4all.nl page, where you can find information on Amsterdam.
  
• The Homepage Amsterdam site proclaims itself to be a cannabis-related site, but does have some good general information.
  
• The www.qqq.com/holland site is very good for information on Holland.
  
• Also a good site to look at: The Rough Guides - type in a city in the Netherlands to learn more about its history, or places to stay, etc.
  
• The Trip has a searchable data base with information on cities in The Netherlands.
  
• Information on Amsterdam can be found at the Hotel Prinsenhof site.
  
• Try Eurotrip.com , "Your Backpackin' Europe Site".
  
• Also, don't pass up Rick Steves' site for all sorts of practical info on traveling in Europe.
  
• The Total Guide to Holland provides a lot of different information on Holland.
  Climate charts, passport info, etc. can be found at the World Travel Guide.
  

Places to Stay

• The Dutch Youth Hostel Association site will give info on hostels all across the country.
  
• More good information on hostels, camping, etc. can be found at the Amsterdam Web site.
  
• The place we stayed while in Amsterdam, the Vondel Park Hostel, is a good choice, and the place we tried to stay, the Flying Pig In Amsterdam, is also supposed to be good.
  
• The Hotel Guide and the Hotels - Holland are good sites, with lots of hotel info.
  
• The Holiday Guide offers info a booklet on hostels in Holland, but not worth the price, IMHO.
  

Cycling in Holland Related Sites

• The Cycling in the Netherlands site is a good site to start from.
  
• Also worth a visit are the Travel Library pages for bike-related articles.
  
• If you are planning to travel with a bike, you must visit the Travel with Bicycles site to read of the experiences of fellow travelers.
  
• Though the links may change, it is worth searching for the Trento Bike Pages for lots of bike information.
  
• The Holland Cycle Routes site describes various bike routes in Holland.
  
• Jan Boonstra's Cycle Pages contains descriptions of various trips, and has some bike graphics.
  
• For more suggestions on what to take on a bike trip, try the Bicycling Touring Wizard. (This site may have moved - the host server was being updated at last report.)
  
• And, if you are interested in what the bike lanes in Holland look like, go to the "Good Ideas" page at the Bike Transport Alliance site.
  

Other

• Want to see what it looks like now, at a particular spot in the Netherlands? Try Connect TV for a real-time view (maybe, if it's working).
  
• The Schiphol site provides lots of info on the airport, including weather.
  

  Also, try the rec.bicycles.rides discussion group, or search the newsgroups at Deja.com.