LostinSpaceman opened this issue on Mar 01, 2009 · 24 posts
Klebnor posted Mon, 02 March 2009 at 2:10 PM
If it were me, I'd go to Amsterdam. The coffee shops aren't just for coffee. If you have time, take a train to Maastricht - it's worth the side trip. I also heartily recommend Haarlem and the less well known Zaandvoort. When we lived in West Germany years ago, my wife and I went there many weekends. Germany still had the awful shopping hours (virtually none on the weekend). A Dutch friend of mine summed up the difference between Germany and the Netherlands:
In Germany, anything not specifically allowed is prohibited,
In the Netherlands, anything not specifically prohibited is allowed.
That pretty much sums up the Zeitgeist.
Not to slam Germany - you could do worse than Munich with side trips to Rotheburg ob der Taube (Medieval city with the ring wall and most buildings intact) and Neu Schwanstein (Ludwig's castle - you know, like at Disney World).
Klebnor
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