Volendam (pronounced as Folendham), is a beautiful fishing village in the district of Noord Holland. It was an awful windy + rainy day, when we decided to spend some time here. We took a bus service from Amsterdam Centraal and reached our destination in 25 minutes passing through some of the stunning country side of Netherlands. I saw gorgeous floating houses alongside the canal, a single windmill with cattle gazing on the lush green grasses.
We reached Volendam central and took a long stroll through the numerous souvenir shops, photo shops and lots of seafood restaurants on the way. The streets finally led us to a beautiful shoreline, not a big stretch of beach though. The shore was completely deserted during the you-know-what-climate-right?
Typical dutch houses just along the shoreline adds more color to it. It's said that people living here still wear those traditional dutch clothes.
And one cannot forget to take a memorable picture with the family in a traditional dutch costume in those numerous photoshops.
On Summer, Volendam is flooded with tourism. The boat cruises are open, and one can opt to take a cruise to Marken, another village near by.
Directions to Volendam from Amsterdam Central: Take bus # 110, 116 and 118.
thats good way to record the visits... which otherwise normally goes unshared with many.
ReplyDeleteTrue da. One more way to cherish the memories...
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