EuroParcs Camping en Jachthaven Uitdam

If you’d like to tick off lots of classic Dutch sights, it’s half an hour or so's drive to the windmills of Zaanse Schans, and around 45 minutes to get to the famed cheese market in Alkmaar. Wend your way through the streets of Volendam, a fishing village 20 minutes’ drive away, and you may well encounter traditional dress, music and fish dishes. Day trips to Amsterdam (by road, river or on a bike for the energetic) are highly recommended too. There are some fab museums here (the Rijksmuseum, Anne Frank House and Van Gogh Museum, for example) but there’s also much to be said for just wandering along the canalside paths – and in a city of 165 canals there are plenty of those to choose from. Golfing types may well want to bring along their clubs to whack a few balls around at one of the local courses – there are five within a 40-minute drive.