Holland
is a cycle tourist's dream.
The
bicycle is as much a part of Holland as the tulip, the windmill and
the clog. Children learn how to cycle before they can walk and a pensioner
doing the shopping by bicycle is no uncommon sight. Even the Queen herself
has been seen on her bicycle. The
16 million inhabitants of the Netherlands own 15 million bicycles. The
country's infrastructure has been adapted to the use of the bicycle.
There is a network of cycle paths of 20,000 kilometres!, with cycle
bridges, cycle tunnels and cycle ferries.Besides there are the windmills,
dunes, dikes, woods and beaches. But there is more .... rivers, lakes,
canals, the 'IJsselmeer' and the 'Waddenzee'.
Excel
Travel has been organizing Bike and Boat Holidays, in co-operation with
Cycletours Holland, in Holland now since 1999 and we have
only received positive comments from our guests. What a wonderful and
relaxing way to see the countryside.