VACATION IN A WEEKEND

Enormous need for a vacation but no time to get away for a week? No worries, you can also easily manage a vacation in two days. Long live the weekend!

Spa
Treat yourself to two days at a spa. Some spas also offer a hotel or other form of accommodation, so you really feel like you’re completely away. And afterwards, soft as a poodle and completely clean, you will naturally feel intensely relaxed as if you are truly on vacation.

Weekend away
Take the Thalys to Paris on Friday evening after work. In just three hours, you’ll be in the finest city in Europe, and it feels like the Netherlands is further away than ever. Or go very early on Saturday morning, that’s possible too, of course. When you tell Australians or Americans that we live so close to other countries, they don’t understand why we don’t do it much more often. And I actually don’t either.

Weekend Netherlands
But in the summer, when it’s a bit warmer in our country, it can also be really fun to gather a group of friends and book a beautiful Airbnb house. Somewhere with lots of greenery and forest, and if possible, a private pool in the garden. If you share the rental price, it’s often not that expensive, and then you really feel like you’re completely away.

Phone off
Not in the mood to leave your own house? Then from Saturday morning, turn off your phone, stock up on a ton of delicious things at home, queue up a few series or movies, and just pretend you’re not there at all.

No hangover
The easiest way: make sure you don’t have any hangovers. If I go to bed on time and sober on Friday night and then wake up early and fresh on Saturday, I feel reborn. It’s incredible how many hours there are in your weekend when you don’t have to spend them on a headache and a long recovery process from the night before.