Markets in Netherlands and/or Brugge
Can anyone recommend street markets in Amsterdam, Brugge, or in towns that might be a good day trip from Amsterdam? (Please include the market day if you remember it.) We are visiting the third week of April and particularly enjoy flea or antiques markets. Thanks.
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Alkmaar - Fridays Apr-Sept - though famous for its old-world cheese market this day the whole town turns into a street market as well.
In Amsterdam the Albert Cuyp Straat market is very famous - but has generally low-end stuff appealing to an increasingly ethnic crowd - colorful for sure. I recommend the DapperStraat (sp?) market in the east side of town near the Muiderpoort train station for being a real nice street market. There are markets all over Amsterdam on some days as well. The Amsterdam Flea Market at Waterlooplein sells mainly clothes and not the usual bric-a-brac you seem to want to see. |
Liege, Belgium is famous for its flea market. I believe it is on Sunday. I have never been, but it supposedly goes on forever.
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Forgot to mention the market in the Place Sablon in Brussels, on Saturdays and Sundays, comes highly recommended. All of these are way up on my list to someday explore...
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If you can visit the last week instead of the third week in April, the whole of Amsterdam transforms into a street market and party for Queen's day on April 30.
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2nd tulips on Queen's Day - the biggest flea market i've ever seen - anyone can chalk out a spot on sidewalks all over the city the night before and then sell practically anything they want - this is the tradition and the whole city is mobbed that day. Very extraordinary experience.
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