Went to the Saturday market one street over from our apartment. The Market is wall-to-wall, canal-to-canal, about 1/3 of a mile. And they do this every Saturday
Since it's a free day and the Market only killed the morning, we decide to take a train to Haarlem, a whopping 15 miles to the west of Amsterdam. The intent is to spend the night there and go another 4 miles or so to the North Sea coast tomorrow morning. Traveling great distances in Holland! Far out!
Haarlem is a small city, maybe about the same size as Maastricht, although more like Amsterdam- canals, bicycles, churches, cannabis, even a mini-red light district or so we were told. Haarlem is also an old city- aren't they all- that goes back to Roman times. Those Romans were everywhere in the 3rd or 4th century.
its another cathedral!
Some interesting parks in Haarlem.....below is a map showing showing some triangly shapes along a canal. These are the remnants of the city wall/fortress from the 1500's; from the ground all you get is a sense of the shape and higher ground where the walls were. pretty cool
View across canal from a triangly thing
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