This morning we took the train to Zandvoort and Haarlem. First we stopped at Zandvoort for a couple of hours and spent some time relaxing by walking on the beach. On our way back to the train station, we walked through the part of town that has various shops and places to stop for food. It was quite a small place and obviously different than what we are used to being located in the center of the city of Amsterdam. There weren't very many people and it seemed a lot less busy than the city of Amsterdam.
After another train ride we ended up in Haarlem, which is located quite close to Zandvoort. We spent a little more time in Haarlem than the last stop and as we were all quite hungry, we had a chance to sit down for a nice lunch. We also walked around the town of Haarlem, which was much bigger than the town part of Zandvoort. Our ventures today seemed to be in much less of a tourist-centered atmosphere compared to what we are used to, although people seemed to be happy to accommodate tourists. The waitress at the place where we ate lunch even gave us menus in English (normally everything is in Dutch). After walking around the town and having lunch, we enjoyed a relaxing time in a park nearby until we had to leave for the train station to get back to Amsterdam.
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