Recreatiepark de Wrange

Set off by bike or foot into the peaceful site surrounds, or take to the car for destinations such as museums, national parks and animal parks further afield. Kids welded to their consoles? Take them (kids, not consoles) for a day at Het Land van Jan Klaassen (15 minutes), a theme and amusement park billed as having ‘old-fashioned games for ages up to eight’ and home to the biggest puppet theatre in the Netherlands. The park also has a castle, a min train, a mirror maze and a rope bridge… and yes, there’s ice cream for sale too. Those hikes and bike rides are most plentiful in De Hoge Veluwe National Park and Veluwezoom National Park, each half an hour away; if you’d like to stick to cultural attractions, the Netherlands Open Air Museum is also 30 minutes from the site, Middachten Castle and Gardens is 35 minutes and the Kröller-Müller art museum and sculpture park is 50 minutes away.