Do you want to explore the area of Zoetermeer, but do you know all the walking and cycling routes that are already leaving from your home? Then we have a handy tip for you: start at a top! A Watte? A tourist transfer point.
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Henk Van Blijderveen has collected all the tops on His website. From the Achelse Kluis to Eemshaven and from Haak and Hoek to Stellendam, you will find them all on this card. But what is the use of these tourist transfer points?
What is a top?
According to Henk, the tops are from where you can easily cycle or walk and discover the surroundings. Henk: “You can park the car in large, spacious parking spaces that are almost always free. You will find tourist information about the region and often there is also something of hospitality.”
Who is behind the tops?
Henk says that he started making an inventory of the tops twelve years ago, because there was no clear collection website. “The organizations that baptize a place to a tourist transfer point are different. That can be the province, the municipality or the local VVV. There is therefore no umbrella body.”
The Netherlands has a total of 404 tops, but not everywhere they bear the name Tourist Transfer Point. In Noord-Brabant these places are called ‘Natuurpoorten’ and ‘Eikpunt’ in Limburg. There are no tops in the province of Zeeland.
Henk’s favorite top
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What are Henk’s personal toppers? Henk: “I have not visited all the tops in the Netherlands yet, but the top in Vorden in the Achterhoek is really top! You can pump your car tires with a solar pump and there is room in abundance. The top is close to the village and in the summer you get a very nice ice cream. The eight -castle route, a very nice cycling route through the region.”
You can read more info about tops near Zoetermeer under the photo>
Tops near Zoetermeer
Great, now you know everything about a tourist transfer point, but where do you find them near Zoetermeer? You will find one on the Heuvelweg in the Westerpark and on Burgemeester Middelberglaan 2 in Bentwoud.
Have you become curious about Henk’s Top-Top in Vorden? Loads the bikes on the back of the car and drives 147 kilometers to that tourist transfer point. From the Stadshart you are on the road by car for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
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