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What do you expect when you think of typical North Holland landscapes and villages? Cows, windmills, dikes, churches, and polders. That's exactly the environment you'll find near your B&B. Oudesluis was once a mooring place for VOC ships and the home port for the fishing fleet before the land reclamation. Now, you'll find peaceful village streets for a stroll right outside your B&B. In the nearby Anna Paulowna, you can do your shopping.

Fancy dining and shopping within cycling distance? Then visit the town of Schagen, just 6 kilometers from your B&B. Schagen has a friendly city center with a covered shopping center, a pleasant shopping street, and several restaurants and terraces. Activities are organized here throughout the year, such as beach volleyball tournaments, markets, food tastings, and open-air concerts.
 

From June to early September, Schagen hosts the West Frisian Market on ten Thursdays, featuring a procession in traditional costumes and various folkloric activities and performances.
 

In Schagen, you can also go bowling and catch a movie.

From Den Oever, a fifteen-minute drive away, ships offer seal tours on the Wadden Sea. From the exposed sandbanks, you can observe seals in their natural habitat. You can also embark on various deep-sea fishing trips from here.

Spend a day in Callantsoog. The nature reserve Zwanenwater is just south of this seaside resort. In this dune area, you can walk through dune valleys filled with flowers and spot birds from one of the observation huts. Enjoy a meal at beach tent Woest or various other cozy beach tents and restaurants in Callantsoog. You can also shop and engage in various water sports here.

The extensive Schoorl Dunes National Park, with towns like Schoorl (and the famous climbing dune!), Groet, and Camperduin, is a beautiful natural area with pine forests, heath fields, sand flats, dune streams, high climbing dunes, and kilometers of cycling and hiking paths. You can reach this natural area in about 20 minutes by car. The charming artist's town of Bergen is also nearby.

Your B&B is located in the world's most extensive flower bulb region! During the flowering season (April/May), you'll be continually amazed by breathtaking colors and stunning vistas, with the dunes on the horizon. There are various walking and cycling routes to explore the area.

Just around the corner from your B&B in Anna Paulowna, you'll find Landgoed en Dierenpark Hoenderdaell. Here, you'll encounter crocodiles, colorful birds, ring-tailed lemurs, and fallow deer. Emus and pheasants roam freely. In the middle of the woods, you'll find the enclosure housing tigers. Van Blanckendaell Park in Tuitjenhorn is another small animal park.

In the maritime city of Den Helder, a fifteen-minute drive from your B&B, there are numerous museums and shops. The historic Rijkswerf (just outside the city center) is an entertainment center with a unique maritime character. Also, visit the Navy Museum or Fort Kijkduin, a fort with underground vaults and an aquarium featuring various North Sea species. On Tuesdays, there's the Juttersmarkt in the city center of Den Helder.

The cheese city of Alkmaar is a half-hour drive from your B&B. From the first Friday in April to the first Friday in September, the traditional cheese market takes place on Waagplein every Friday morning from 10:00 to 12:30. But Alkmaar is one of the best shopping cities in the Netherlands throughout the year and is certainly worth a historic walk.