Sep 24, 2026
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Delft Day Trip from Amsterdam
Everything you need for a perfect 2026 escape: trains, pottery, food, and a complete itinerary.
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Dear Netherlands,
Somewhere in the Netherlands right now, someone is pouring a pint of something dark — perfectly. Somewhere, a tulip field is waiting to bloom. Somewhere, a baker is sliding the first tray of stroopwafels onto the counter while the smell fills the whole street. The Dutch don’t make a fuss. They just make things the way their parents and their parents’ parents made them.
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In today’s email:
- Delft Day Trip from Amsterdam: Your Complete 2026 Guide
- At The Café — Café De Klomp — The Oldest Café in Friesland
- Around The Web — The Love Netherlands Guide № 005: Dutch Cycling Culture, Discover Your Dutch Roots in New Zealand: A Heritage Guide for Dutch-New Zealanders, Volendam Day Trip from Amsterdam: Your Complete 2026 Guide + more
- From Love Netherlands — Discover Your Groningen Roots: Heritage, Diaspora, and Family History
- Dutch Food You Will Love — Hutspot — The Dutch Mash With a Siege Story
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Delft Day Trip from Amsterdam: Your Complete 2026 Guide
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A Delft day trip from Amsterdam is one of the best decisions you can make in the Netherlands. Barely an hour by train, this compact canal city rewards visitors with Vermeer’s legacy, hand-painted blue-and-white pottery, leaning medieval churches, and cobbled streets that somehow escaped the tourist machine. If Amsterdam feels crowded, Delft offers the same Golden Age charm at a fraction of the pace. Love the Netherlands? Join our free newsletter for hidden Dutch gems → inlovewithnetherlands.com/subscribe This guide covers everything you need to plan a great day in Delft: how to get there, what to see, where to eat, and how to make the most of the pottery workshops that define the city’s identity. Whether you have a single day or a leisurely afternoon, Delft repays every minute. How to Get from Amsterdam to Delft The train is the easiest and most enjoyable way to make the Delft day trip…
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At The Café
Café De Klomp — The Oldest Café in Friesland
Café De Klomp in Leeuwarden’s old centre has been pouring beer since 1620, making it Friesland’s oldest continuously running pub. The room is small and dark with wooden tables polished by four centuries of elbows. Frisian is spoken behind the bar and at half the tables — a separate language, not a Dutch dialect. Order a glass of Beerenburg, the local herb-infused jenever, and listen to a Saturday afternoon unfold around you in a language most Dutch people don’t speak either.
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Around The Web
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From Love Netherlands
Your great-grandparents left Groningen carrying little. They crossed an ocean to build new lives in Canada, Australia, or South Africa. But they carried something invisible with them — a piece of the flat, wide-skied north that shaped who they were. If your family name traces back to the northernmost mainland province of the Netherlands, you hold a story worth finding. This guide will help you find it. Groningen is not the Netherlands most…
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Dutch Food You Will Love
Hutspot — The Dutch Mash With a Siege Story
Hutspot is a thick mash of potatoes, carrots, and onions, served alongside klapstuk (slow-cooked beef brisket) or smoked sausage. The story is that the Dutch found a pot of it abandoned by Spanish soldiers fleeing Leiden in 1574 — the city had been under siege so long they’d been eating it themselves to survive. Every 3 October, Leiden still serves hutspot for free at its annual Ontzet festival. It’s the kind of plate that looks unassuming and tastes like centuries of practical Dutch winter cooking — sweet, savoury, and made for a long evening.
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