About Alkmaar:
• 30 miles from Amsterdam
• Close to the sea, beaches and dunes (6 miles)
• Friendly town with a beautiful old city-center and canals
• Weekly (cheese)market, lots of restaurants, bars, museum, theater, movie house, etc.
• Train station at 1,5 mile (30 minutes to Amsterdam), bus stop in front of our house
• Alkmaar (pop: 100.000) is surrounded by typical Dutch landscape
• Excellent recreational facilities

About the direct vicinity and neighborhood
• Close to the highway, on busy street
• Close to the lively city-center (1 mile)
• Shopping-center nearby (0,4 mile)
• Large citypark, tennis-court and indoor swimming pool nearby
• Walking distance to Italian restaurant and typical Dutch ‘snackbar’