Alkmaar cheese market

The next day in Amsterdam we enjoyed a nice (and included!) breakfast in the hotel's fancy
breakfast room, then headed out to meet Lucy for our tour of North
Holland. Our first stop was Alkmaar, famous for it's cheese market.
(We bought pesto cheese and wasabi cheese) Then we headed up the
coast, saw the dunes and dykes and went for …

... north of our base. It dates back to 1366, when it was little more than a refuge for wayfarers. The main square holds a cheese market every Friday as it has done for the past 500 years. Dutch cheese comes in huge round blocks covered in red, ...

... forced to rent a room in a 4 star Best Western Hotel. Oh well, it has been our only big spend so far. The cheese market was fun, the farmers all dress in traditional clothes and carry giant round blocks of cheese on slings suspended from their shoulders. ...

... salty and very sweet. We love it. The photos start with a trip courtesy of our host Jacqueline to Alkmaar, a town famous for it’s weekly cheese market auction, and for us it was also famous for non stop rain that morning. We suspect ...

... gets for the entire month of August! Floods everywhere ! With that in mind, we ventured cautiously into Alkmaar to witness the world famous cheese market where the cheese carriers can be seen in action on the Waagplein square every Friday between 10 ...

... off (since Ryan did not make it back from Amsterdam in time to come with us). The town of Alkmaar if I even spelled it right has a traditional cheese market which was interesting to see. They put all the cheese out in the square and they have tasters ...