Vacation in your own country
Why vacationing in your own country is what you want. The sequel. No liters of tzatziki or hiking through an undefined high mountain range for you this year, but just relaxing in our country. Of course, you still need some secret addresses. I'll check with the KNMI in the meantime if we are blessed with an overload of sun and scorching hot evenings. Deal?
1. On a deserted island, that's where I would like to be. It's not deserted, you don't drink milk from coconuts, but you do sit down for delicious fish and a good glass of wine. Go to Ameland, book a room at Sea of Time and just stay there and eat. You're going to have a long and happy vacation.
2. A round over the canal belt and beaches at Het Bosch. The weekend in Amsterdam, but different. In a maddening line for the Anne Frank House, you skip that for a moment. Book a sloop, cruise the canals, and end up on the terrace of Het Bosch at the Nieuwe Meer. Quite hidden in the southwest of Amsterdam. Wave a little when you sail the Schinkel, because then we wave back from the editorial office.
3. If you want it boutique-style, then book Vesper, the most delightful hotel in Noordwijk aan Zee. Roll right onto the beach for a day of lounging. And if you get tired of it, you curl up at Branding Beach Club to eat the best meal in the world (says our Annabelle).
4. Take it on like May and book a beach house. Almost nothing feels as much like vacation as a beach house. With your own terrace, gazing over the waves, free beach hair... Oh, I want it. I want it. I want it. Just make a campaign plan, because these houses go like hot cakes about a year before the start. You could try a Hague beach house which are extremely photogenic. You do need to go eat a fish at Catch by Simonis, the concept in Scheveningen when it comes to fish without a civil fishnet on the ceiling. Think: lava cakes and divine sushi. And shopped out in The Hague? Then you drink a cocktail at Jamey Bennett.
5. Do it all Airbnb-style. We recently made a great list for you. You feel like a local in your own country. Of course, you are, but in places you haven't been before.
6. Stay home and go city hopping. A day to Uutje (with tips from Kiek), relax in the finest beach club in Scheveningen (says Lil), dive into Haarlem (with insider info from May) or spend a day in Den Bosch (with some ideas from yours truly). How do you approach it? Sleep in. Grab the newspaper. Drink a cup of homemade coffee. Realize that nothing is mandatory. And you can do anything. Voilà, a vacation like you don't often have.
7. Rent a boat, because everything on the water is more fun. Start with a small lake, like ’t Veerse or the Grevelingen (where you find a terrace to occupy, build a house, and never leave). And don't immediately rent a fifty-footer (in the boating world, they talk about feet), because you'll just fumble around in a lock. You can also do that; an afternoon of watching locks, you'll see more drama than in a whole season of GTST. I promise you.
