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

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.

Nice garden.

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.

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.

Many special animal and plant species are found in the Bethune polder.

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

Very rural. Nice farm houses.

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

Unfortunately in 1940 the Germans were able to fly over it ;-) Not at Almere but near Utrecht.

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".'