I had some spare time and the was sun shining. So I decided to head out on a ride to Scheveningen, the seaside town in Den Haag, southwest of Duinrell. This is somewhere we’ve been a few times in the past, but not actually that many. Last time was during our 2024 trip, as part of a ride to Den Haag and Madurodam.
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With us spending two weeks at Duinrell, we ended up returning to Leiden multiple during our 2025 trip. With it being a fairly short ride away and such a pleasant place to spend time, how could we not?!
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We’d not been back to Amsterdam, since our 2022 trip to Zaandam and the others in our group had never been there, despite visiting the Netherlands multiple times, so we were definitely due a trip there.
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Being the closest city, Leiden is a popular choice for a day trip away from to Duinrell. Indeed, it’s somewhere we have been to every time we’ve stayed there and I’ve written about our rides to the city numerous times in 2015, 2017, 2022 and 2024.
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With a birthday in the group to celebrate, we arranged for lunch out at Strandpaviljoen De Watering in Katwijk aan Zee, overlooking the beach. Getting there would obviously involve getting on the bikes and enjoying the very pleasant ride across the dunes.
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The wonderful city of Delft is somewhere we’ve been a few times over the years, with our last visit there in 2022. While we’ve got there by various means, including bike, tram and car, we’ve never cycled there directly from Duinrell.
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With a bit of time to spare, while everyone was doing their own thing, I had chance for a quick afternoon ride. Being somewhere we’d briefly ridden to in 2022, I fancied exploring the area around Vlietland, a recreational area with lakes formed from the extraction of sand.
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Despite staying fairly close by, we’ve only actually been to Rotterdam twice over the years, prior to our 2025 trip. We first went there in 2013, when the kids were small, then three of us returned in 2022, making a multimodal trip there.
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After commencing work in April this year, the walking and cycling improvements on Chapel Street have been completed ahead of schedule, at the end of November 2025. The work was originally due to be completed in early 2026.
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If I’m honest, I’ve already done this route to death already, so why am I back with another post covering a ride to the beach at Wassenaarse Slag? Well, largely as this was an evening ride, with a few nice shots of the sun setting over sea.
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