Flights to Amsterdam – One million bicycles
You have to watch yourself or risk getting run over by one of Amsterdam’s 1 million bicycles. Perhaps not the first thing that springs to mind when you’re planning flights to Amsterdam. But useful to bear in mind as you stagger between coffee shops, if that’s your thing. There are only 700,000 people living in Amsterdam, so the other 300,000 bicycles must belong to tourists… a scary thought. Schiphol Airport, where your flights to Amsterdam will deposit you, is a short, convenient train ride from the city centre and – another interesting fact – is at least four metres below sea level. Hm… just in case, we always prefer to go at low tide.
Amsterdam Flights – Flat, wet and criss-crossed with canals
Holland has waged war against the sea for centuries and flights to Amsterdam land you in a landscape that’s oddly flat. In the UK we’re used to hills and hillocks and dales and mountains. There, the steepest hill is just a few hundred feet high. You know that story about the lad who stuck his finger in the Dyke to prevent the whole country flooding? He was a real person. Consider this and other useless yet entertaining facts while in one of the city’s 300 coffee shops, then try and find your hotel afterwards. Amsterdam flights land in a city named after the Amstel River and the dam the Dutch built to stop it flooding the original village. We wonder, idly, whether Dutch people have evolved into very tall beings in order to see above the flood waters. Then we dismiss it as a silly idea.
Flights to Amsterdam – Navigate 4000km of waterways
Holland has over 4000km of rivers, lakes and canals to navigate and boat trips are very popular. Many flights to Amsterdam are specially arranged to give tourists access to the famous and delicious tulip fields, huge squares of the most astonishingly vivid colours as far as the eye can see. Schiphol Airport is home to an enormous number of airlines, around 100 in all including household names like Air France, British Airways, BMI, Flybe and easyJet.
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