Cycling in Holland

I fancy going away somewhere different, I'd want to cycle and it would be nice to get away from the UK nobhead drivers. Reading articles on Holland / Netherlands with its cycling culture and miles of cycleways sounds like a utopia. Im thinking of touring from Dutch city to city along the cycleways.
Has anyone been cycling there and able to offer any advice, please?
Thanks.
Has anyone been cycling there and able to offer any advice, please?
Thanks.
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I wouldn't call it a utopia for fun cycling. It's a utopia for safe, off the roads cycling with minimal elevation change and it is a utopia for cycling with children but otherwise it isn't exactly that rewarding. My experience of cycling around Haarlem, Utrecht, Delft, Den Haag, Utrecht areas is that you have some nice rivers to ride along but for much of the time you are next to dead straight roads with lots of right angle corners. Head winds can be tedious and the scenery isn't usually that exciting. That said, the little cities are superb but the only place I've ridden there where the route has ups and downs and nice curves etc is on the coastal dunes. The Southern part of The Netherlands is a bit more undulating so might be more interesting.
I found Denmark rather nice - Jutland is scenic, there are ups and downs but not really big ones. The cities aren't IMO as nice as the Dutch ones but the Dutch set a very high bar. You could do worse than head for the Silkeborg area (Danish Lake district).
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Without knowing where you're planing to go, it's hard to give any specific advice. The only one watchout I'd say is that Dutch drivers are as bad as any when the roads have no cycle routes marked on them so don't get lulled into a false sense of security.
Plenty of hills in the Limburg region. We stayed in Valkenburg and cycled much of the Amstel Gold route.