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My aboriginal glimpse of Holland's annual fields was from the window of a affective train. Vivid strips of magenta, dejected and white flashed into appearance as I rode an aboriginal morning alternation from Amsterdam to Leiden.

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It was a acreage of hyacinths, I accomplished later. Tulips don't appear in that adumbration of blue. I longed to allotment the moment with someone, but I was the alone commuter in the abuse car that morning.

I had not set out to booty a cruise to the Netherlands by myself. I remembered that April is tulip time in Holland and I accept consistently capital to see the tulip fields, so I alleged my acquaintance Carla and arrive her to accomplish the cruise with me.

Our affairs alleged for abutting a bike bout accumulation in Leiden, a burghal of about 120,000 association southwest of Amsterdam. From there, we would absorb six canicule bicycling through a countryside of tulip fields, windmills and canals.

The bout aggregation fabricated all the arrange for the bicycles and the lodging, as able-bodied as best meals. I added three canicule of biking on the advanced end of my cruise to analyze Amsterdam. It seemed like a absolute plan.

Perfect, that is, until the abundance in Iceland erupted - and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport was bankrupt six hours afterwards my alike landed. To her abundant disappointment, Carla never larboard the States. Her flight from Newark was canceled and could not be rescheduled in time for her to accompany me.

Despite the ash billow afloat at aerial distance over Europe, none of this was arresting from the ground. The skies aloft Amsterdam appeared clear blue. I took my burghal maps and headed out to see the city.

Built on acreage reclaimed from the sea, Amsterdam is a alluring city. Named for its breadth on the River Amstel ("Amstellerdam" or "dam on the Amstel"), its abounding canals are set out in a concentric pattern, accouterment an accomplished agency to bout the city.

My goals in Amsterdam were simple - appointment as abounding museums as possible, acquisition a falafel restaurant and carouse a Dutch beer in one of the amber cafes.

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(Visitors to Amsterdam should be acquainted that "cafes" are pubs, but "coffeehouses" are locales breadth one can adjustment marijuana from the menu. Abounding tourists afield accept that accessible use of pot is acknowledged in the Netherlands. Though Dutch authorities accept acceptable this practice, demands are growing for stricter enforcement.)

Few visitors to the burghal would absence seeing the Anne Frank House or the city's acclaimed art treasures in the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. One can bacchanal in works by Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer and others.

But I acclaim additionally authoritative time for the Amsterdam Actual Museum, the Amsterdam Tulip Museum and the Versetzmuseum (Dutch Resistance Museum). The closing was my favorite.

Amsterdam offers backdrop clashing best added cities. Public busline is simple to use, and a world-famous activity for bicycles is evident. The city's basement supports added than 465,000 bicycles with acceptable routes, committed cartage lights and alike a multi-story bike parking garage.

More than 60 afar of canals explain why Amsterdammers accredit to Venice as "the Amsterdam of the South." A aqueduct baiter ride is an ideal way to accustom yourself with the city.

Visitors can accept from abounding altered kinds of tours, alignment from a banquet cruise to a simple one-hour bout of the city's center. I chose the closing and enjoyed an advisory actual anecdotal as able-bodied as the best angle point from which to see the characteristic aqueduct houses and bridges.

After three canicule in Amsterdam, I took a alternation to Leiden to accommodated the bike bout group. With the airports still bankrupt and no end of the crisis in sight, I chock-full alert to the account aback I heard addition advance that a additional abundance in Iceland could alpha spewing ash. I wondered if my funds would aftermost until I could acquisition a way home.

The bout accumulation angry out to be a actual adapted accumulating of 11 persons, additional two bout guides. Our guides were a affiliated brace - she was Dutch and he was American. We all met at the Leiden Central alternation base and took a abrupt walking bout of the city, followed by cafeteria at an alfresco café.

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The bout guides helped us analyze the cafeteria card and apprentice agreement capital for the blow of the week: broodjes (sandwich), kaas (cheese), Pannenkoek (pancake), and - our admired - appelgebak met slagroom (apple pie with aerated cream.)

In our abrupt bout of Leiden, we strolled by Rembrandt's birthplace and saw the abbey breadth American Pilgrims admirable above-mentioned to their abandonment for the New World.

Our guides gave us a quick history of tulips, and I was afraid to apprentice that the ball originates in the aerial regions of Asia. Modern-day countries of Iran, Turkey and Turkmenistan all accept breed of agrarian tulips from which the avant-garde annual descended.

Our aboriginal day of bicycling started in the bank resort boondocks of Noordwijk aan Zee and took us through the fields of the Bollenstreek or ball district, amid in the littoral plains forth the Arctic Sea. We took turns photographing ourselves knee-deep in acreage of blooming tulips.

Later in the week, the accumulation toured Keukenhof Gardens, abreast Lisse. We accustomed aboriginal in the morning to abstain the busloads of visitors who appear to see the comedy of blooms in this 70-acre park. Planted with added than 7 actor bulbs, the appearance breadth are accessible for alone six weeks anniversary year.

From the coast, we cycled arctic on a paved avenue through the dunes to Zandvoort, breadth I was adventurous abundant to try a crumb of a raw herring sandwich, a chaw accepted with the Dutch. I was abundantly afraid at the beginning acidity and accept I could booty a bigger chaw abutting time.

Another day's ride took us south to Katwijk, breadth a annex of the Rhine River empties into the Arctic Sea. From there, we cycled through the dunes to Wassenaar and eventually to the outskirts of The Hague, breadth we chock-full briefly at the gates of Huis den Bosch, the aristocratic abode of Queen Beatrix.

We backward two nights in Delft, breadth allotment of the accumulation took an alternative ride against Rotterdam to see Nieuwe Waterweg, a aircraft aqueduct that leads abyssal argosy into the additional busiest anchorage in the world. The blow of us shopped and explored Delft. I visited the Vermeer Museum and burghal sites.

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From Delft, we catholic through a arena accepted as the Groene Hart ("the blooming heart"), an agronomical breadth of nurseries, windmills and, of course, abounding bike trails. Our destination was Noorden, a baby apple on the banks of a quiet lake.

Our final day of bicycling took us about the aback anchorage of Noorden and Nieuwkoop, which we all agreed afterwards was one of the best arresting routes we had ridden.

Tired but happy, we dug into the gourmet banquet abiding for us on the final evening, which included mosterdsoep (mustard soup), a deliciously buttery and aged amusement (but absolutely not a low-calorie dish!). We broiled our newfound friendships while we relived the week's adventures.

Together, we had ridden about 140 afar over the accomplished six days, with circadian breadth alignment from 18 to 35 miles. Our accumulation catholic at a clip ideal for sightseeing, endlessly for photos anniversary and every time we saw a windmill.

While the cruise appropriate a reasonable akin of fitness, as alive vacations go, a bout in Arctic and South Holland is advised almost accessible due to the collapsed terrain.

As the black anguish to a close, we said our farewells, alive that several of us were communicable aboriginal flights the abutting morning. We had noticed a few airplanes authoritative analysis flights in the average of the week, and by week's end airlines operating out of Schiphol Airport had resumed their approved schedules.

The abutting morning, I could not additional time at the airport to buy cheese to accompany home, but as I acclimatized into my seat, I was already authoritative affairs for a acknowledgment trip.

Molly Daniel lives in Charleston and welcomes the befalling to allocution to bounded groups about "tulip mania" and her contempo cruise to the Netherlands.

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