Originally Posted by
Doug64
I think it needs a little less hyperbole, and a more realistic assessment of what is really there. IMO it is not one of "the most beautiful places in the world"!
+1. Zeeland looked almost exactly like Michigan, probably why the Dutch immigrants felt so at home here. I was bored in my three and a half days riding from the border to Amsterdam. If were going natural beauty, it is hard to beat Scandinavia in Europe, possibly bits of the Mediterranean, maybe a handful of places I can think of that I haven't been to, but most of Europe is pretty bland nature-wise.
And, as one that has been to both the Netherlands and Belgium, I don't know how you can rave about Dutch fries knowing what fries were like back in Belgium.