Flat, perfectly built bike-path and side streets, suitable for children.

Individual arrival. Embarkation between 12.20 and 1.30 pm. When you arrive on board at the ship, you can put you luggage away in your cabin and then enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. During this coffee break there is plenty of opportunity to get to know your guide, the crew and your fellow passengers. During dinner aboard the ship, the program for the next day and the global planning of the week are discussed. After dinner you will make your first kilometers on your bike.

From Oude Wetering you will continue your tour over country roads, banks and channels through the Green Heart and polders to the city known for its cheese: Gouda. Who thinks of Gouda, not only thinks of cheese, pipes, ‘stroopwafels’ (treacle-waffle) and pottery, but also of stained-glass windows, a fairy-like town hall and atmospheric canals. Gouda is beautiful Old-Dutch city with a mostly intact city centre. As on most days, after dinner you will take a walk through the city.

From Gouda you cycle along magnificent polders via Kinderdijk to Rotterdam. The 19 windmills of Kinderdijk have been listed as a USECO World Heritage Site. Until 1950 the mills were actively used - nowadays a large pumping station is responsible for the water level in the polder. You will have the opportunity to visit some of these mills. From Kinderdijk you will take the ferry to Rotterdam, where the ship is already waiting for you. Aboard the ship you will finally continue to Delft.

From Delft you will cycle to The Hague today. A quiet bike route will then take you further through the dunes to Wassenaarse Slag. At Wassenaarse Slag you will still find the remains of the Atlantic Wall. The route continues through the dunes to Katwijk aan Zee and then along flower fields to Leiden, a historic city with numerous typical hofjes, gables and buildings from the 15th to 18th century. The city center invites you to shop, but also to relax on the terrace of a waterfront sidewalk café. The ship is moored next to the Zijlpoort, the lock gate that was once part of the city walls.

Today you visit the Keukenhof gardens, the most beautiful spring park in the world. Keukenhof is the place where the spring breaks. In the Keukenhof various gardens and gardening styles can be found: the English Landscape Garden, the Historical Garden, the Natural Garden, the Japanese Natural Garden, the Formal Garden and three special colours gardens. Spread throughout the entire park there are approximately eighty sculptures from well-known Dutch artists. There are also several other art objects, such as the collection ’Surprising Tulips’.

From Leiden you cycle through wonderful flower beds in the direction of Haarlem. In the period of March to May the bulb fields are blooming, starting with daffodils and followed by hyacinths, tulips and lilies. Once in the city of Haarlem you make a short tour through the city to see some typical ’hofjes’ (almshouses), old houses around a central courtyard, now usually housing elderly people. These ’hofjes ’ are definitely worth a visit. Haarlem, which rendered its name to Harlem, New York, is a lively city with good shopping possibilities. The ship is berthed in the city centre, with a view of St. Bavo’s Church and with easy access to the Grote Markt with its many outdoor cafés.

You will take a boat from Haarlem to Spaarndam, a picturesque village on the outskirts of Haarlem. Then continue by bike towards Zaanse Schans with its traditional wooden houses, warehouses and windmills.

Disembarkation after breakfast until 10 am and individual departure.

Due to changing wind and weather conditions as well as organizational requirements we reserve the right to make changes of routing and program.