Top Tourist Attractions in Albany: Travel Guide State New York
Top Tourist Attractions in Albany: Travel Guide State New York
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Gouda, Netherlands City Tour
We're visiting the Dutch city of Gouda in this practical guide to seeing the highlights of Gouda, in Holland, in the Netherlands. Most famous for Gouda cheese, but there are many other attractions to enjoy in this beautiful Dutch city. It has some fine examples of that special Dutch feature of the reflecting canals lined by flowers and pedestrian lanes. But here we've got several of these charming neighborhoods we'll show you in the video, and the important building where the cheese was weighed on the main town square.
The Weighing House, or Waag, has for centuries been a central point in town where the all-important cheese was weighed and deals were made.
It now contains the Tourist Information Center and the Cheese and Crafts Museum where you can taste and purchase a variety of cheeses.
The Markt, or marketplace, is the central plaza in the heart of town, home to countless pubs, restaurants and cozy sidewalk cafes.
The exquisitely proportioned Stadhuys, or City Hall, is a gem of late Gothic and early Renaissance architecture, dating from 1449-59.
The traditional cheese market takes place in the plaza every Thursday mornings 10 AM till 1230 from April through the end of August.
The street alongside the marketplace is one of the busiest in town with lots of shops, and especially the restaurants and bars and cafés – usually buzzing with people.
One block away, Groote Kerk, or Great Church, also called Saint John Church, was founded in 1485 and rebuilt after a fire in 1562. The round-arched arcades are borne by 36 pillars supporting the lofty barrel-vaulted ceiling of dark wood. It is the longest church in the Netherlands, at 123 meters.
Our walking route, starting at the train station and down to that central market square, into the church, then we'll continue along a beautiful canal down to the harbor, and then circling back around in a complete round trip walking tour of the city, and ending up back at the train station. Now we continue along the Westhaven canal.
You can easily walk along this splendid canal from the town center, only 600 meters distance - it'll take you about five minutes - down to the historic harbor where you will find clippers, barges and sailing vessels lying majestically alongside each other in the Museum Harbor, and most of these are still lived in.
In the Middle Ages, due to its central location, the town offered passage to ships en-route to Amsterdam and Flanders. After the 15th century, Gouda's role in international shipping went into decline.
Walking back towards the center from the harbor, you'll see another historic site – it's a windmill, very characteristic of the Netherlands.
We're taking a circular route through town, walking along yet another beautiful canal, observing all these bicycles going back and forth. You can actually rent a bicycle here if you'd like to peddle around in town or even extend out to some of the surrounding areas.
This route to the harbor, and then returning along a few of the less traveled back lanes, gets you off the beaten track. It's an easy stroll that doesn't take much time, and this route can bring you past another few blocks of shopping. Here you can see a benefit of being here when the cheese market is not on – you will not see very many other tourists. Then passing along a few residential blocks with their old-fashioned buildings. It's nice to get away from the historic highlights for a while and into a neighborhood that's more for locals. It's quiet and peaceful over here.
Then you will come around the bend and find what is perhaps the prettiest of the canal scenes in town along what's called the Turfmarkt.
Turf was that peat, or combustible decaying soil that was very important to the old Dutch for cooking and heating their homes, much like in Ireland and elsewhere in the north of Europe.
This route takes us back to the center at the marketplace.
There's a lovely block behind the market square. We can have a peek at it showing that very special Dutch combination of shop fronts along a pedestrian lane next to a charming little canal – circles on the map and next to it is the new market, a modern little shopping mall.
Gouda is generally visited as a daytrip from other nearby cities, which are only 20 to 30 minutes away by train. Even all the way to Amsterdam is just 52 minutes. So you can easily visit Gouda for most of the day without spending the night there. Or if you wish to overnight, there are some fine hotels such as a four-star Best Western.
The superb Dutch rail system makes it very easy to travel around in this relatively small nation, as you will see in our many other movies about the Netherlands, where we take you to all of the highlights of this wonderful country. Look for them in our collection.
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5 Best Things To Do In Catskill, New York | US Travel Guide
5 Best Things To Do In Catskill, New York
Bid adieu to the hustle and bustle and say hello to the Catskill, NY, where you’ll find limitless acres of landscapes, ripe with opportunities for outdoor adventure and festivals and events that can rival any big-city lineup. Catskill is the perfect getaway from the city or for a week-long vacation with family or friends. This is the eventual journey’s end if you want to attain that travel ‘nirvana’!
Here five things to do in Catskill, USA
1. Greene County Council on the Arts
2. Kaaterskill Falls
3. Olana State Historic Site
4. Hunter Mountain
5. Catskill Animal Sanctuary
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4 Best Places to Visit in Vermont During The Summer | US Travel Guide
4 Best Places to Visit in Vermont, New England During The Summer.
As summer is coming, most people do not really look at Vermont as a place to vacation in because in fact finding the Best Vacation Spots in Vermont during the summer can be rather difficult. However, with this article, you will get to know some of the best places to visit in Vermont, where it is beautiful during summer.
1. Mount Mansfield
2. Shelburne Museum
3. Stowe
4. Montpellier
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5 Great Weekend Getaways In New England
Perhaps the single best thing you can do to beat the January blahs is book a weekend away. Don't stress yourself out trying to fit four days in the islands into a long weekend (really, all that time on the plane?). Think of something more manageable and cozy that won't put too much stress on the wallet that's still struggling to recovery from the holidays. Five great getaways in New England.
1 Portsmouth, N.H.
2 Lenox, Mass
3 Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, N.Y.
4 Newport, R.I.
5 Woodstock/Quechee, Vt.
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5 Best Things to Do in Vermont, New England, USA
Visions of Vermont conjure tranquil forested mountains, lively ski resorts, and authentic maple syrup. Vermont is also home to Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory, the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory, VINS Nature Center, ECHO Leahy Center, and historic sites like the Ethan Allen Homestead and Hildene preserve. Here are the best things to do in Vermont, United States.
1. Billings Farm and Museum
2. Hildene - The Lincoln Family Home
3. Shelburne Farms, Vermont
4. Church Street Marketplace
5. Shelburne Museum
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Bondi Beach!
We stayed in a really bad hostel in Sydney for a few nights with our friend from back home, then we decided to go see what all the fuss was about at Bondi Beach.. It wasn't a beach we would go back to because to all the crowds, but we did have fun going in the water fully for the first time in Australia!
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Queensland Australia
Queensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. The state is Australia's second largest by area, following Western Australia, and the country's third most populous after New South Wales and Victoria.
The area was first occupied by Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who arrived between 40,000 and 65,000 years ago, according to various dating methods.[3][dead link] Later, Queensland was made a British Crown Colony that was separated from New South Wales on 6 June 1859, a date now celebrated state-wide as Queensland Day.
The area that currently forms the state capital, Brisbane, was originally the Moreton Bay penal colony, intended as a place for recidivist convicts who had offended while serving out their sentences in New South Wales. The state later encouraged free settlement, and today Queensland's economy is dominated by the agricultural, tourist and natural resource sectors.
The state's population is concentrated in South East Queensland, which includes Brisbane, Logan City, Redland City, Ipswich, Toowoomba, and the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. Other major regional centres include Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Ingham and Mount Isa.
Queensland is often nicknamed the Sunshine State, since it enjoys warm weather and a sizeable portion of the state is in the tropics.
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10 Days in Cape Town....ummmm HELL YES! Me and Sav were overwhelmed by the sights and sounds of Cape Town. Each day was action packed with trips to Kirstenbosch, Table Mountain, Lions Head, Bo-Kaap, Clifton Beach, Camps Bay, Truth Coffee, Kayaking, hanging out with penguins and a few wineries. The funny thing is is that we did not even do everything we set out to do and there's so much more.