Breda

Breda is a city in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Get in By car From Amsterdam, Breda can be reached by taking the A2 to Utrecht and then the A27. Breda is less than a 90 minute drive from the three main ferry ports in Holland. The closest port to Breda is Europoort in Rotterdam which is 45 miles away. [1] From Rotterdam, Breda can be reached by taking the A16 to Breda, which will take about 30 to 40 minutes. By train From Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport, Breda can be reached by train in about 1 hour on Fyra, a train service that runs on the high speed tracks between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda. Tickets can be bought at the ticket machines, or can be reserved at the NS hispeed website [2]. Alternatively, if you already have your normal NS ticket, day ticket or anything of the sorts, you can travel with Fyra by buying a supplement at the ticket machines. Get around You can get around by bike (rent from Central Station) or Citybus. But almost everything in the city centre is walkable. You can grab a cab at the Breda Central Station, most cabs will cost you around 10 euros. (depending on the driver.) There are some questionable characters around there. If you want to be safe, call Peutax +31(0)76-5710000 and make a pre-arranged price. Other companies are Taxi-Line (reckognized by their "Yellow Cab" style), City-Cab and TCM (Taxi Centrale Made). You could also take a "Train-Taxi". By buying a ticket, you can be driven aorund thentire Breda municipality. However, this is only to one address, and all occupants must have a valid ticket. These can be bought from the NS vending machine. From the central trainstation, it is a 10 to 15 minute walk to the city centre. Just go through the Willemstraat, cross the bridge over the moat and you are almost there! See Some of Breda's medieval buildings have been demolished in the past, but much remains. On the Grote Markt, the city's main square, you can find the Church of our Lady, in Gothic style, and the 18th century city hall. Do Visit the OLV Church Visit the Castle that once was the home of William of Orange Visit the Begijnhof (Baginage) and the church on the premises Get a tour through the old moats of Breda Drink real Belgian and Brabants beer on Grote Markt or Havermarkt square. Explore the nightlife on thursdays, fridays and saturdays around Havermarkt square. You should visit the Wilhelminastraat. It is located just south of the city centre and hosts lots of exlusive shops. It has a very rich and nice atmosphere It is also recommended to visit the old neighbourhood Zandberg and Ginneken, just south of the Wilhelminastraat. It has lots of old merchants' houses and on the south end you will find the Mastbos. One of the nicest forests in the Netherlands Buy Breda is a well known shopping city in the Netherlands. In the old city centre you can find lots of clothing shops. Also the department stores HEMA and V&D can be found. The Barones, a shopping mall, holds certain high-end stores, but also a H&M can be found here. Breda has also some antique shops and jewelry stores. Every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday a market is held in the city centre. The Saturday Market is held on the Haagdijk, a 10 minute walk south from the Grote Markt. All the other markets are held on the Grote Market, the central square of the city. You can find second-hand bookstores in the Veemarktstraat. Eat Restaurant Chocolat, Torenstraat 9 Restaurant Dickens & Jones, Grote Markt 40 Restaurant Flinstering, Grote Markt 23 De 3 Vrienden, St. Janstraat 4, Breda, ☎ 076-5335880, [3]. 17-22h. Small but busy restaurant. They don't take credit cards. Rather than "starters" and "main courses", they have portions which are somewhere in between, for €8.50 each.  edit Drink Cafe de Speeltuin, Visserstraat 14.  edit Get out Parc Breda, Grote Markt 20 Kerkplein, Torenstraat 17-19 Routes through Breda Almere ← Gorinchem ←  N  S  → END Flushing ← Roosendaal ←  W  E  → Tilburg → Eindhoven This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow!