100 things to do in Utrecht

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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. 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!
  4. Go grocery shopping at the Turkish shops in the Kanaalstraat
  5. See bands play on boats on the canal at the Botenparade in august
  6. Go Canooing in the nature of Amelisweerd and have a Pancake at the historic wooden Theehuis in Rhijnauwen
  7. See the smallest building on the world heritage list, the Rietveld Schroder House
  8. Enjoy a nice summerday, relaxing, picknicking and sporting at Wilhelminapark
  9. Join the Goth-parade during the Summer Darkness weekend
  10. Get lost in the narrow alleyways in between Oudegracht and Nieuwegracht
  11. Have a cheap vegetarian (or vegan) meal, or enjoy the underground music scene at ACU
  12. Come to the CS Utrecht monthly meeting at cafe Averechts
  13. See the best arthousemovies at 't Hoogt(in a medieval looking builing), Springhaver (with a nice cafe) or [http://www.louishart
  14. Go shopping in all the trendy and vintageshops on Oudegracht or Voorstraat
  15. See the upcoming Indiebands, or have a well-priced 3 course-meal at Ekko
  16. Taste the best Autumnbeers at the Bockbeerfestival
  17. Go by Canalbike through the Pittoreske canals of Utrecht.
  18. Take a bike ride along the line of fortifications around Utrecht which are all part of the national heritage of the Hollandse waterlinie
  19. Visit the Railway museum
  20. See the famous bands at Tivoli
  21. Join the Dutch national sport, go Iceskating

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  1. Discouver Utrecht by bike
  2. Buy the best beers at Berts Bierhuis
  3. 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
  4. Have a nice icecream at Il Mulino
  5. taste delicious chocolate at Simon Levelt or Australian at the Steenweg
  6. go searching for the Nijntje traffic light
  7. Visit the highrise modernist buildings at Kanaleneiland and Overvecht and see for yourself if these neighbourhoods are getto's or not.
  8. Follow CS Utrecht Dutch lessons
  9. Visit Botanical Gardens built around a fortress at the Uithof
  10. 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.
  11. Have a pubcrawl filled with bluesbands at the bluesroute
  12. Check the Suster Bertken memorial stone in the Choorstraat, near the crossing with the Zadelstraat
  13. 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.
  14. Have a beer at Olivier (a beer bar in a former church), or taste one of their lovely Belgian dinners with frenched fries
  15. Eat or drink cocktails @ Badhu
  16. Visit one of the Cultural Sundays, lots of different cultural acts in the city centre
  17. Have a bbq at the lakes of Maarsseveen
  18. Walk along the Nieuwegracht in spring
  19. Go to the de Ster, a windmill still working as a carpentery
  20. Join in in freestyle rap sessions at Plug In at SJU
  21. Dance to Funk every friday at FUDGE in SJU
  22. Have an ice-cream Roberto's
  23. 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
  24. Go to the public Library, have a chai tea with milk in one of the comfotable chairs with a view on the street
  25. See who gets the 'Gouden Kalf', the Dutch version of the Oscar at the Dutch film festival in Utrecht
  26. Have a picknick on the 'werf' along the Oudegracht
  27. Have a picknick on the Keulsekade in the south of Lombok, overlooking canals with houseboats, a park, fancy houses and a money museum
  28. Find out everything about money in the Moneymuseum
  29. go to a free festival at liberation day (may 5th)
  30. Find out everything about Aboriginal Art at the Aboriginal Art Museum
  31. Have a fruity and organic fruitshake at de Blauwe Kameel
  32. See the fancy post-modernist architecture in the campus The Uithof
  33. See where Nijntje, aka Miffy lives
  34. Have a Broodje Mario on Oudegracht next to La viestraat.
  35. Spot the UFO on 'the Inkjar', the headoffice of the Dutch railways
  36. Get a fresh stroopwafel at the market on Vredenburg on wednesday, friday or saturday
  37. In summertime, go and picnic on Lepelenburg on Sunday and enjoy all the people there playing soccer and juggling and role playing.
  38. See what underground has to offer at Counter Culture festival.
  39. Go to a theatersports game in Parnassos, Theater aan de werf, or Oudaen
  40. See a Viking ship, the remains of the Art niveau building 'De Utrecht' or one of the many art exhibitions at centraal museum
  41. Get addicted to boardgames with the real board game fanatics at the Joker
  42. Check how far the gouvernment is with building a whole new station-area
  43. Go to the rooftop cafe in the V&D in Hoog Catherijne for probably the best views over central Utrecht (including the Dom!).
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. Visit the infamous 'red light canal' for 'research purposes' at the Zandpad section of the Oudegracht.
  47. 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.
  48. visit the Drogisterij Woortman, a old fashioned shop from 1851 and buy some herbal tea or lip balm.
  49. Enter the old post-office on Neude to admire the grandeur of the art niveau architecture inside
  50. take a look at: the Thinker on the Rock and note what you're thinking
  51. See live Jazz @ Wijk C during Jazzapalooza
  52. Find the "Utregtse Kabouter" between all the cool graffiti on the biketunnel under Westplein
  53. Figure out when the last bar closes @ the Nobelstraat (or le carafon)
  54. Eat your own lunch (or broodje bigoli) on the Terrace of "de Zaak"
  55. Eat cheesefondue, enjoy live music and see the best wasy to recycle crappy old records @ oude pothuys
  56. Have a daytrip to the nice medieval city of [Amersfoort]
  57. Find as many art works from the panorama 200O art project
  58. Go to the [http://www.sonnenborgh.nl/ Sterrenwacht}, in a former bastion of the citywall
  59. Enjoy the late afternoon sun on the stairs of the cityhall on the cityhall bridge
  60. Enjoy [Argentinia|Argentinian] atmosphere or danmce the tango yourself@ the city hall on thursday evenings in summer
  61. Visit the lapjes mart on a saturday morning @ Breedstraat(don't pronounce the K form markt if you wanna speak Utrechts dialect!)
  62. See the house, once owned by the only Dutch pope ever
  63. Find out everything about Zuilen at their museum
  64. Get stoned in a coffeeshop on a boat at Wittevrouwensingel
  65. Sing the offocial anthem of Utrecht from Herman Berkien: 'als ik boven op de Dom sta'
  66. have a pubcrawl filled with upcoming bands at popronde
  67. Have great lunch sandwiches with drink for only 5 euro @ gras van de buren, in their nice movie theatre seats
  68. Visit one of the notorious student house-parties at Ina Boudier Bakkerlaan (IBB)
  69. See the history of mechanical musical instruments @ museum Speelklok tot Pierlement
  70. See local bands at the big rehearsal studio DB's
  71. Be a guest at the live recordings of radio show 'spijkers met koppen' every saturday at cafe Florin
  72. Celebrate midsummernight with over 100 other couchsurfers
  73. go skating with a big group on the streets every friday in summer
  74. See fresh students get drunk during de U.I.T.-dagen
  75. Cry your eyes out with tearjerkersfestival 'smartlappenfestival'
  76. take a tuktuk
  77. Visit Soestbergen cemetary, designed by J.D. Zocher jr. in an English landscape style. It became a national monument in 2000
  78. See the history of the Molukkans at the Moluks Historisch Museum
  79. Find out everything about wijk C at their museum


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