+1 Bruges, +2 Amsterdam and agree to skip Brussels
If you enjoy a relaxing car ride with lots of friendly locals in an area with little non Dutch tourism, Friesland is awesome. It's a train ride away or a couple hours on a neat car ride on the Overijssel dam that divided the North Sea and the man made land in Holland. Every tiny town has little festivals and the awesomest sport to watch live: fierljeppen. Seriously, Google a video of it. A thousand fans screaming as a guy runs, jumps and grabs onto a pole and climbs it as it inches forward then jumps off it. It's basically pole vault, but over water and the pole is twenty feet longer and they climb it as it lurches forward. Lots of good food too: Fryske Suikerbrood is a sweet bread with little clumps of sugar
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