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# Taste the best Autumnbeers at the [http://www.experienz.nl/events/bockbierfestival/ Bockbeerfestival] | # Taste the best Autumnbeers at the [http://www.experienz.nl/events/bockbierfestival/ Bockbeerfestival] | ||
# Go by Canalbike through the Pittoreske canals of Utrecht. | # Go by Canalbike through the Pittoreske canals of Utrecht. | ||
# See the smallest building on the world heritage list, the Rietveld Schroder House | # See the smallest building on the world heritage list, the [http://www.rietveldschroderhuis.nl/ Rietveld Schroder House] | ||
# See the famous bands at [http://www.tivoli.nl Tivoli] | # See the famous bands at [http://www.tivoli.nl Tivoli] | ||
# Go Canooing in the nature of Amelisweerd and have a Pancake | # Go Canooing in the nature of Amelisweerd and have a Pancake at the historic wooden [http://m.iens.nl/restaurant.htms?r=3770 Theehuis in Rhijnauwen] | ||
# See the best arthousemovies at 't Hoogt, Springhaver or Louis Hartloper Complex | # See the best arthousemovies at [http://www.hoogt.nl/ 't Hoogt](in a medieval looking builing), [http://www.springhaver.nl/ Springhaver] (with a nice cafe) or [http://www.louishartloopercomplex.nl/ Louis Hartloper Complex](in a former police office) | ||
# Discouver Utrecht by bike | # Discouver Utrecht by bike | ||
# Go shopping in all the trendy and vintageshops on Oudegracht or Voorstraat | # Go shopping in all the trendy and [http://couchwiki.org/en/Utrecht#Sights_and_activities vintageshops] on Oudegracht or Voorstraat | ||
# Have a nice icecream at Il Mulino | # Have a nice icecream at [http://www.ilmulino.nl/ Il Mulino] | ||
# taste delicious chocolate at Simon Levelt or Australian at the Steenweg | # taste delicious chocolate at Simon Levelt or Australian at the Steenweg | ||
# go searching for the Nijntje traffic light | # go searching for the Nijntje traffic light | ||
# Visit the highrise modernist buildings at Kanaleneiland and Overvecht and see for yourself if these neighbourhoods are getto's or not. | # Visit the highrise modernist buildings at Kanaleneiland and Overvecht and see for yourself if these neighbourhoods are getto's or not. | ||
# Follow CS Utrecht Dutch lessons | # Follow CS Utrecht [http://www.couchsurfing.org/group.html?gid=14572 Dutch lessons] | ||
# Visit the old Botanical Gardens at the Universiteitsmuseum | # Visit the old Botanical Gardens at the Universiteitsmuseum | ||
# Take a bike ride along the line of fortifications around Utrecht | # Take a bike ride along the line of fortifications around Utrecht | ||
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# Include your visit to zandpad, as part of a cycle trip down the River Vecht to it's end in Muiden, passing through a beautiful landscape of windmills, aristocratic houses and tiny villages. If you're tough enough, visit Kanoverhuur Utrecht at Oudegracht 4, and do the trip by canoe. | # Include your visit to zandpad, as part of a cycle trip down the River Vecht to it's end in Muiden, passing through a beautiful landscape of windmills, aristocratic houses and tiny villages. If you're tough enough, visit Kanoverhuur Utrecht at Oudegracht 4, and do the trip by canoe. | ||
# visit the [http://www.drogisterij-woortman.nl/index.htm Drogisterij Woortman], a old fashioned shop from 1851 and buy some herbal tea or lip balm. | # visit the [http://www.drogisterij-woortman.nl/index.htm Drogisterij Woortman], a old fashioned shop from 1851 and buy some herbal tea or lip balm. | ||
# | # Enter the old post-office on Neude to admire the grandeur of the art niveau architecture inside | ||
# take a look at: the Thinker on the Rock and note what you're thinking | # take a look at: the Thinker on the Rock and note what you're thinking | ||
# Find the "Utregtse Kabouter" | # Find the "Utregtse Kabouter" between all the cool graffiti on the biketunnel under Westplein | ||
# Figure out when the last bar closes @ the Nobelstraat (or le carafon) | # Figure out when the last bar closes @ the Nobelstraat (or le carafon) | ||
# Eat your own lunch (or broodje bigoli) on the Terrace of "de Zaak" | # Eat your own lunch (or broodje bigoli) on the Terrace of "de Zaak" | ||
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# Find out everything about Zuilen at their museum | # Find out everything about Zuilen at their museum | ||
# See the house, once owned by the only Dutch pope ever | # See the house, once owned by the only Dutch pope ever | ||
# Go to | # Go to the sterrenwacht | ||
Revision as of 10:31, 16 October 2009
- Climb the mighty 112,5 meters Dom Tower
- Have one of over 100 different great Belgian beers at cafe Belgie
- Visit the Railway museum
- Enjoy a nice summerday, relaxing, picknicking and sporting at Wilhelminapark
- Go watch all the famous autographs from rockers on guitars and ofcourse it's famous painting of legendary dead rockers at the pub: Stairway to heaven. Also great for cheap dinner.
- Have a cheap vegetarian (or vegan) meal, or enjoy the underground music scene at ACU
- Come to the CS Utrecht monthly meeting at cafe Averechts
- Join the Dutch national sport, go Iceskating
- See the upcoming Indiebands, or have a well-priced 3 course-meal at Ekko
- Taste the best Autumnbeers at the Bockbeerfestival
- Go by Canalbike through the Pittoreske canals of Utrecht.
- See the smallest building on the world heritage list, the Rietveld Schroder House
- See the famous bands at Tivoli
- Go Canooing in the nature of Amelisweerd and have a Pancake at the historic wooden Theehuis in Rhijnauwen
- See the best arthousemovies at 't Hoogt(in a medieval looking builing), Springhaver (with a nice cafe) or Louis Hartloper Complex(in a former police office)
- Discouver Utrecht by bike
- Go shopping in all the trendy and vintageshops on Oudegracht or Voorstraat
- Have a nice icecream at Il Mulino
- taste delicious chocolate at Simon Levelt or Australian at the Steenweg
- go searching for the Nijntje traffic light
- Visit the highrise modernist buildings at Kanaleneiland and Overvecht and see for yourself if these neighbourhoods are getto's or not.
- Follow CS Utrecht Dutch lessons
- Visit the old Botanical Gardens at the Universiteitsmuseum
- Take a bike ride along the line of fortifications around Utrecht
- Visit Kasteel de Haar and its park
- Take a stroll through the new Botanical Gardens and enjoy a picnic there
- Visit the Uithof for its architecture, especially the Library
- Have a beer at Olivier (a beer bar in a former church)
- Cycle to Pannekoekenhuis Rhijnauwen en have a delicious pancake next to the water
- Go grocery shopping at the Turkish shops in the Kanaalstraat
- Visit one of the Cultural Sundays, lots of different cultural acts in the city centre
- Have a bbq at the lakes of Maarsseveen
- Walk along the Nieuwegracht in spring
- Go to Plug In at SJU
- Dance to Funk at FUDGE in SJU
- Have an ice-cream Roberto's
- Go to the Griftpark, see the sun go down on the hill, sit on the stones, join the skaters, basketballers or other sporters or just relax next to the lake
- See bands play on boats on the canal at the Botenparade
- Go to the public Library, have a chai tea with milk in one of the comfotable chairs with a view on the street
- See who gets the 'Gouden Kalf', the Dutch version of the Oscar at the Dutch film festival in Utrecht
- Have a picknick on the 'werf' along the Oudegracht
- Have a picknick on the Keulsekade in the south of Lombok, overlooking canals with houseboats, a park, fancy houses and a money museum
- Find out everything about money in the Moneymuseum
- Find out everything about Aboriginal Art at the Aboriginal Art Museum
- See the fancy post-modernist architecture in the campus The Uithof
- See where Miffy lives
- Have a Broodje Mario
- Spot the UFO on 'the Inkjar', the headoffice of the Dutch railways
- Get a fresh stroopwafel at the market on Vredenburg on wednesday, friday or saturday
- In summertime, go and picnic on Lepelenburg on Sunday and enjoy all the people there playing soccer and juggling and role playing.
- Have a fresh mint tea in Springhavercafe
- Enjoy one of the many cultural sundays
- Go to a theatersports game in Parnassos, Theater aan de werf, or Oudaen
- See a Viking ship, the remains of the Art niveau building 'De Utrecht' or one of the many art exhibitions at centraal museum
- Check how far the gouvernment is with building a whole new station-area
- Go to the rooftop cafe in the V&D in Hoog Catherijne for probably the best views over central Utrecht (including the Dom!).
- In the summer, find a picnic table at the southern end of the Oudegracht terrace, get some food and drink from the nearby supermarkets and snackbars, and have a little gathering with your friends.
- Check the listings at http://www.dnbforum.nl/index.php?action=partyagenda;year=2009;month=10, or the flyers in The Revenge shop on Vredeburg, and reach a drum and bass or dubstep rave at one of the many venues across the city.
- Visit the infamous 'red light canal' for 'research purposes' at the Zandpad section of the Oudegracht.
- Include your visit to zandpad, as part of a cycle trip down the River Vecht to it's end in Muiden, passing through a beautiful landscape of windmills, aristocratic houses and tiny villages. If you're tough enough, visit Kanoverhuur Utrecht at Oudegracht 4, and do the trip by canoe.
- visit the Drogisterij Woortman, a old fashioned shop from 1851 and buy some herbal tea or lip balm.
- Enter the old post-office on Neude to admire the grandeur of the art niveau architecture inside
- take a look at: the Thinker on the Rock and note what you're thinking
- Find the "Utregtse Kabouter" between all the cool graffiti on the biketunnel under Westplein
- Figure out when the last bar closes @ the Nobelstraat (or le carafon)
- Eat your own lunch (or broodje bigoli) on the Terrace of "de Zaak"
- Eat cheesefondue and enjoy live music @ oude pothuys
- Have a daytrip to the nice medieval city of [Amersfoort]
- Find as many art works from the panorama 200 art project
- Enjoy the late afternoon sun on the stairs of the cityhall on the cityhall bridge
- Enjoy [Argentinia|Argentinian] atmosphere or danmce the tango yourself@ the city hall on thursday evenings in summer
- Visit the lapjes mart on a saturday morning @ Breedstraat(don't pronounce the K form markt if you wanna speak Utrechts dialect!)
- Celebrate Queensnight the 29th of april!
- Enjoy a coffeshop in a boat
- Sing the offocial anthem of Utrecht from Herman Berkien: 'als ik boven op de Dom sta'
- Have great lunch sandwiches with drink for only 5 euro @ gras van de buren, in their nice movie theatre seats
- Visit one of the notorious student house-parties at Ina Boudier Bakkerlaan (IBB)
- See the history of mechanical musical instruments @ museum Speelklok tot Pierlement
- Have a fruity and organic fruitshake at de Kameel
- Get addicted to boardgames at the Joker
- See local bands at the big rehearsal studio DB's
- Be a guest at the live recordings of radio show 'spijkers met koppen' every saturday at cafe Florin
- Celebrate midsummernight with over 100 other couchsurfers
- go skating with a big group on the streets every friday in summer
- go to a free festival at liberation day (may 5th)
- Have a pubcrawl filled with bluesbands at the bluesroute
- have a pubcrawl filled with upcoming bands at popronde
- See live Jazz @ Wijk C during Jazzapalooza
- Join the Goth-parade during the summer darkness weekend
- See fresh students get drunk during de U.I.T.-dagen
- Cry your eyes out with tearjerkersfestival 'smartlappenfestival'
- take a tuktuk
- Get lost in the narrow alleyways in between Oudegracht and Nieuwegracht
- Go to the Ster, a windmill still working as a carpentery
- Buy the best beers at Berts Bierhuis
- See the history of the Molukkans at the Moluks Historisch Museum
- Find out everything about wijk C at their museum
- Find out everything about Zuilen at their museum
- See the house, once owned by the only Dutch pope ever
- Go to the sterrenwacht
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