CountryBest April – June, September – October
Netherlands
Flat, cyclable, and small enough that the best bar in a city is rarely more than twenty minutes by bike.
Everything here rewards a bike over a taxi — the distances are short, the infrastructure is built for it, and the places worth reaching are often the ones without a tram stop outside.
Places in Netherlands
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Brewery4.6(8,636)
Brouwerij 't IJ
Amsterdam, NetherlandsAn organic brewery built into the base of a working windmill, best reached by bike.
Bar4.4(2,264)
Café Hoppe
Amsterdam, NetherlandsA brown café on the Spui pouring drinks since 1670, one of Amsterdam's oldest working bars.
Flea market3.9(198)
Waterlooplein Market
Amsterdam, NetherlandsThe oldest flea market in the Netherlands — around 300 stalls of vintage, second-hand and genuinely strange finds.