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# In summertime, go and picnic on Lepelenburg on Sunday and enjoy all the people there playing soccer and juggling and role playing.  
# In summertime, go and picnic on Lepelenburg on Sunday and enjoy all the people there playing soccer and juggling and role playing.  
# See what underground has to offer at [http://www.festival-utrecht.nl/main.php/sec3 Counter Culture festival].  
# See what underground has to offer at [http://www.festival-utrecht.nl/main.php/sec3 Counter Culture festival].  
# Enjoy one of the many cultural sundays
# Go to a theatersports game in Parnassos, Theater aan de werf, or Oudaen
# 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
# See a Viking ship, the remains of the Art niveau building 'De Utrecht' or one of the many art exhibitions at centraal museum
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# Cry your eyes out with tearjerkersfestival [http://www.smartlappenfestival.nl/Smartlap/ 'smartlappenfestival']
# Cry your eyes out with tearjerkersfestival [http://www.smartlappenfestival.nl/Smartlap/ 'smartlappenfestival']
# take a [http://www.tuktukcompany.nl/home/utrecht/ tuktuk]
# take a [http://www.tuktukcompany.nl/home/utrecht/ tuktuk]
# Visit Soestbergen cemetary, designed by J.D. Zocher jr. in an English landscape style. It became a national monument in 2000
# See the history of the Molukkans at the [http://www.museum-maluku.nl/ Moluks Historisch Museum]
# See the history of the Molukkans at the [http://www.museum-maluku.nl/ Moluks Historisch Museum]
# Find out everything about [http://www.wijkc.nl/documents/volksbuurtmuseum.html wijk C] at their museum
# Find out everything about [http://www.wijkc.nl/documents/volksbuurtmuseum.html wijk C] at their museum

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  1. Climb the mighty 112,5 meters Dom Tower
  2. Have one of over 100 different great Belgian beers at cafe Belgie
  3. Visit the Railway museum
  4. Enjoy a nice summerday, relaxing, picknicking and sporting at Wilhelminapark
  5. Celebrate Queensnight strolling all night through the fleamarket in the north of the old town finding the craziest ways to make money on the night of the 29th of april!
  6. Join the Goth-parade during the Summer Darkness weekend
  7. 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.
  8. Have a cheap vegetarian (or vegan) meal, or enjoy the underground music scene at ACU
  9. Come to the CS Utrecht monthly meeting at cafe Averechts
  10. Join the Dutch national sport, go Iceskating
  11. See the upcoming Indiebands, or have a well-priced 3 course-meal at Ekko
  12. Taste the best Autumnbeers at the Bockbeerfestival
  13. Go by Canalbike through the Pittoreske canals of Utrecht.
  14. See the smallest building on the world heritage list, the Rietveld Schroder House
  15. See the famous bands at Tivoli
  16. Go Canooing in the nature of Amelisweerd and have a Pancake at the historic wooden Theehuis in Rhijnauwen
  17. 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)
  18. Discouver Utrecht by bike
  19. Go shopping in all the trendy and vintageshops on Oudegracht or Voorstraat
  20. Buy the best beers at Berts Bierhuis
  21. Have a nice icecream at Il Mulino
  22. taste delicious chocolate at Simon Levelt or Australian at the Steenweg
  23. go searching for the Nijntje traffic light
  24. Visit the highrise modernist buildings at Kanaleneiland and Overvecht and see for yourself if these neighbourhoods are getto's or not.
  25. Follow CS Utrecht Dutch lessons
  26. Visit Botanical Gardens built around a fortress at the Uithof
  27. Take a bike ride along the line of fortifications around Utrecht which are all part of the national heritage of the Hollandse waterlinie
  28. Visit the 100 years old, but built in medieval Disney-style Kasteel de Haar and its park on a quit nice day or in a day where it is filled with people dressed up in fantasy style
  29. Have a pubcrawl filled with bluesbands at the bluesroute
  30. Check the Suster Bertken memorial stone in the Choorstraat, near the crossing with the Zadelstraat
  31. Be amazed at all the interesting and funny books at 2nd hand bookstore De Slegte (which is much bigger inside than it appears from the outside). Full of squeeky winding stairs and narrow isles.
  32. Have a beer at Olivier (a beer bar in a former church)
  33. Cycle to Pannekoekenhuis Rhijnauwen en have a delicious pancake next to the water
  34. Go grocery shopping at the Turkish shops in the Kanaalstraat
  35. Visit one of the Cultural Sundays, lots of different cultural acts in the city centre
  36. Have a bbq at the lakes of Maarsseveen
  37. Walk along the Nieuwegracht in spring
  38. Go to the de Ster, a windmill still working as a carpentery
  39. Join in in freestyle rap sessions at Plug In at SJU
  40. Dance to Funk every friday at FUDGE in SJU
  41. Have an ice-cream Roberto's
  42. 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
  43. See bands play on boats on the canal at the Botenparade in august.
  44. Go to the public Library, have a chai tea with milk in one of the comfotable chairs with a view on the street
  45. See who gets the 'Gouden Kalf', the Dutch version of the Oscar at the Dutch film festival in Utrecht
  46. Have a picknick on the 'werf' along the Oudegracht
  47. Have a picknick on the Keulsekade in the south of Lombok, overlooking canals with houseboats, a park, fancy houses and a money museum
  48. Find out everything about money in the Moneymuseum
  49. go to a free festival at liberation day (may 5th)
  50. Find out everything about Aboriginal Art at the Aboriginal Art Museum
  51. Have a fruity and organic fruitshake at de Blauwe Kameel
  52. See the fancy post-modernist architecture in the campus The Uithof
  53. Get lost in the narrow alleyways in between Oudegracht and Nieuwegracht
  54. See where Nijntje, aka Miffy lives
  55. Have a Broodje Mario on Oudegracht next to La viestraat.
  56. Spot the UFO on 'the Inkjar', the headoffice of the Dutch railways
  57. Get a fresh stroopwafel at the market on Vredenburg on wednesday, friday or saturday
  58. In summertime, go and picnic on Lepelenburg on Sunday and enjoy all the people there playing soccer and juggling and role playing.
  59. See what underground has to offer at Counter Culture festival.
  60. Go to a theatersports game in Parnassos, Theater aan de werf, or Oudaen
  61. See a Viking ship, the remains of the Art niveau building 'De Utrecht' or one of the many art exhibitions at centraal museum
  62. Get addicted to boardgames with the real board game fanatics at the Joker
  63. Check how far the gouvernment is with building a whole new station-area
  64. Go to the rooftop cafe in the V&D in Hoog Catherijne for probably the best views over central Utrecht (including the Dom!).
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. Visit the infamous 'red light canal' for 'research purposes' at the Zandpad section of the Oudegracht.
  68. 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, Castles and pittoresque villages link Oud-Zuilen and Maarssen Dorp. If you're tough enough, visit Kanoverhuur Utrecht at Oudegracht 4, and do the trip by canoe.
  69. visit the Drogisterij Woortman, a old fashioned shop from 1851 and buy some herbal tea or lip balm.
  70. Enter the old post-office on Neude to admire the grandeur of the art niveau architecture inside
  71. take a look at: the Thinker on the Rock and note what you're thinking
  72. See live Jazz @ Wijk C during Jazzapalooza
  73. Find the "Utregtse Kabouter" between all the cool graffiti on the biketunnel under Westplein
  74. Figure out when the last bar closes @ the Nobelstraat (or le carafon)
  75. Eat your own lunch (or broodje bigoli) on the Terrace of "de Zaak"
  76. Eat cheesefondue, enjoy live music and see the best wasy to recycle crappy old records @ oude pothuys
  77. Have a daytrip to the nice medieval city of [Amersfoort]
  78. Find as many art works from the panorama 200O art project
  79. Go to the [http://www.sonnenborgh.nl/ Sterrenwacht}, in a former bastion of the citywall
  80. Enjoy the late afternoon sun on the stairs of the cityhall on the cityhall bridge
  81. Enjoy [Argentinia|Argentinian] atmosphere or danmce the tango yourself@ the city hall on thursday evenings in summer
  82. Visit the lapjes mart on a saturday morning @ Breedstraat(don't pronounce the K form markt if you wanna speak Utrechts dialect!)
  83. See the house, once owned by the only Dutch pope ever
  84. Find out everything about Zuilen at their museum
  85. Get stoned in a coffeeshop on a boat at Wittevrouwensingel
  86. Sing the offocial anthem of Utrecht from Herman Berkien: 'als ik boven op de Dom sta'
  87. have a pubcrawl filled with upcoming bands at popronde
  88. Have great lunch sandwiches with drink for only 5 euro @ gras van de buren, in their nice movie theatre seats
  89. Visit one of the notorious student house-parties at Ina Boudier Bakkerlaan (IBB)
  90. See the history of mechanical musical instruments @ museum Speelklok tot Pierlement
  91. See local bands at the big rehearsal studio DB's
  92. Be a guest at the live recordings of radio show 'spijkers met koppen' every saturday at cafe Florin
  93. Celebrate midsummernight with over 100 other couchsurfers
  94. go skating with a big group on the streets every friday in summer
  95. See fresh students get drunk during de U.I.T.-dagen
  96. Cry your eyes out with tearjerkersfestival 'smartlappenfestival'
  97. take a tuktuk
  98. Visit Soestbergen cemetary, designed by J.D. Zocher jr. in an English landscape style. It became a national monument in 2000
  99. See the history of the Molukkans at the Moluks Historisch Museum
  100. Find out everything about wijk C at their museum