Alkmaar and Edam… Cheese towns in Holland
Holland makes some fantastic cheese. It’s a huge source of income for some of the smaller villages in the Netherlands. Alkmaar for example is a train ride away from Amsterdam. One can fetch a free map of the city outside the railway station at Alkmaar. It’ll have the route to the weekly cheese market chalked [...]
It’s that sort of a village, is Edam.
Edam is one of my favourite villages in the Netherlands. It’s famous for the cheese that they produce and export. Narrow streets border a narrow canal that flows through the village. Typical Dutch houses line the outer edges of the streets. The people of Edam are delightful. They love their cheese and their church. The [...]
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