With a rental car the perfect opportunity to explore the Netherlands in the western part of Northern Europe on your own and enjoy the many sights and the culture of the country offers. The Netherlands border in the East on Germany, in Belgium to the South, the North Sea is to the North and West of the country. Together with Luxembourg and Belgium, the Netherlands form the Benelux, in particular the political cooperation of the three States in the foreground. Some 17 million people, of which nearly 770,000 in the Centre of Amsterdam, which is a cultural and economic centre of the country live in the Netherlands. If you want to explore the Netherlands with a hire car, numerous car hire agencies available are available in all major cities.
Despite the small area, the Netherlands has a variety of different landscapes, which gives the country a varied and diverse nature. However, many of this landform arising from human intervention, original natural landscapes here hard to find. The landscape in the Netherlands is characterized by the dikes, the draining of swamps, land reclamation and agriculture course. Spacious pastures, fields and meadows here run through the country and along long roads that offer you optimal opportunities for excursions with your rental car.
The Netherlands take up an important part in many cultural areas. There were for example many artists and painters, who are now world famous, Dutch. The most famous include among others Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt and van Gogh. But also the Dutch architecture plays an important role in the development of architecture in the 20th century. Architects like Aldo van Eyck and Michel de Klerk influenced different styles such as expressionist architecture and the structuralism in highly and so were the work of their successors in the world.
The Dutch cuisine is different in terms of many ingredients not particularly from German cuisine. Here, too, enjoy foods such as potatoes, sausages and sauerkraut of very popular and are part of many different dishes. However, there are some specialties that make the country particularly in the Netherlands. These include French fries, served with different sauces, including "frieten". And also the cheese and the Dutch pudding VLA have become known, typical of the Netherlands and beyond.