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General Tourist Information Places to visit History Transport Museums Eating out Amsterdam Nightlife	The Netherlands Bureau of Tourism (NBT) provides a huge amount of up-to-date information about cities, trips, museums, and events in The Netherlands. If you are the sporting type and want to discover Holland by bike, you can browse www.tribute.nl/nbt/fietsen. By the way, "fiets" (pronounced "feets") is the Dutch word for bicycle. This site contains some interesting cycling routes, for instance a route around Noordwijk and one in Amsterdam. Bikes can be rented from Tweewielercentrum Mooijekind, Schoolstraat 98, Noordwijk, (31-71) 3612826. If you want to know how the Dutch language sounds or how to pronounce simple phrases in Dutch go to the site of the Dutch foreign office and choose 'International Home page', then 'Coming to the Netherlands' and finally 'What does Dutch sound like?'. Regrettably we can not offer you what Holland feels or smells like.
Places to visit	Amsterdam Visit the web sites at: www.amsterdam.nl, www.channels.nl, and www.visitamsterdam.nl
History	Castles Holland has many castles and palaces from the middle ages and later centuries, that have been preserved and often have been carefully restored. Two of the most famous castles are: Muiderslot and Het Loo Palace
Transport	Schiphol Amsterdam airport is the main airport of The Netherlands. NS, Nederlandse Spoorwegen is the Dutch railway company. Holland has a very dense railway network. All major cities can be reached by train minimally twice per hour.
Museums	Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum is the best known museum of the Netherlands. Many thousands of tourists visit it each day. The Van Gogh Museum is closed for redecoration until June 1999. Its collection is travelling all over the world. An exhibition of works from this museum in Los Angeles attracted such huge numbers of visitors that the museum decided to have a 24 hour opening on the last day of the exhibit. Rotterdam Museum Boymans van Beuningen De Kunsthal The Hague Gemeentemuseum Museon Panorama Mesdag
Eating out	Noordwijk being a seaside resort has many restaurants. Of course for really great restaurants you can also visit cities in the neighborhood: Amsterdam, The Hague, and Leiden.
Amsterdam Nightlife	If you want to experience nightlife to the full, you should visit Amsterdam where there are many theaters, cabarets, bars, restaurants, and discos.