{"id":233107,"date":"2025-01-02T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T11:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/?p=233107"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T12:31:39","slug":"10-things-to-do-in-the-netherlands-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/blog\/10-things-to-do-in-the-netherlands-january\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things To Do in the Netherlands this January!","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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~ This post was written by Luca F, founder and editor at AmsterdamTips.com<\/a>, who since 2007 has published insider info guides about the city of Amsterdam and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

At midday on the 1st<\/sup> of January 2025, up to 10,000 hardy souls braved the cool Dutch weather to ring in the new year by taking a dip into the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New Year’s Dive (Nieuwjaarsduik)<\/em> is an annual event that has been held on the wide sandy beach at Scheveningen, near The Hague, since the 1960s. This annual tradition celebrates the beginning of a new chapter in the peak of winter, in the most quintessentially Dutch way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you don’t fancy donning your swimwear and joining the throng \u2013 here are ten ideas for things you can do around the Netherlands in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Zaanse Schans<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Zaanse Schans is a picturesque Dutch village park on the river Zaan about 15km north of Amsterdam. It is renowned for its beautiful windmills and traditional houses. Set up in 1963 as an open-air reserve, the Zaanse Schans is freely accessible to wander around. The site includes a number of windmill museums and traditional workshops \u2013 each charging a small fee for entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further insight, you should also try and visit the main Zaans Museum<\/strong> (on-site) which gives a broad overview of the region’s history. You will see many of the buildings are painted in a distinctive dark green colour \u2013 this copper pigmented paint was thought to have good weather-proofing properties against the harsh Dutch elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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