Saturday, June 6, 2009

Het Twiske [Recreation Area]


If you live in Amsterdam or Zaandam and are looking for some relaxation moment in the nature then Het Twiske is the ideal place. You can enter the area with your bike, you can go there for a walk or drive around with your car (parking costs about 4 euros per day or about 1 euro per hour). There are cycle paths, smalls lakes to go fishing and a couple of old windmills for nice pics. If you are visiting it for the first time I suggest you pay a visit to the Visitors' Center to ask for suggestions.

The landscape is amazing. There are cows, sheeps, fields with lots of water...

There are horse riders....
You can visit the whole area with a rented boat from the local harbour...




Or you can go with your roller skate, visit the wide Aqua Park with your children (I will be talking about it in the summer) or an animal farm (with rabbits and sheeps to cuddle and many other animals), make a barbecue or a pic-nic and relax in many of the little lakes and small beaches. There is a snack bar and restaurant inside of 't Twiske called Het Pavillion where you can have ice cream, French fries, bitter garnituur (a selection of fried little appetizers) and a Dutch beer.

Or maybe you should just try to lose you way in 't Twiske and walk without a goal. We did that today and met some very docile friends:




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