Europpos: tourism advice needed

"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi) 01/21/2019 at 23:40 • Filed to: None

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I’m in Europe for work in February and I have a weekend to kill. I’ll be in southeast Holland on Friday afternoon, and need to be in central Austria on Monday morning. That’s driveable: 10 hours if you take the boring route and weather co-operates, so a nice weekend drive taking the more interesting routes. But the relocation fee makes doing it in a rental car prohibitive. So I’ll probably fly, which gives me a day and a half to kill somewhere. But I’ve already done Amsterdam and Vienna to death, so I want to go somewhere else for a change.

So Oppo, what would you do for a weekend in February, given the start and end points and the need to return any rental car to where I got it from (which doesn’t need to be Amsterdam or Vienna - plenty of places accessible by train from either of those).

To forestall the obvious: yes, the Ring’s accessible, but it’s closed :-(.

BMW M1 Procar race engine in a 635 for your time

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 01/22/2019 at 00:20

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Which area/city do you roughly mean by s outheast Holland? Depending on that I can probably recommend somethings to see/do

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > BvdV - The Dutch Engineer 01/22/2019 at 00:45

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Helmond. Flying into Amsterdam Friday  morning then taking the train or driving there for an afternoon meeting.

BvdV - The Dutch Engineer > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 01/22/2019 at 01:04

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That’s pretty close to where I grew up!

Depending on the amount of time you have, I’d recommend checking out another city along your route (or slightly off it). The trains from Amsterdam to Helmond, will take you through Utrecht, ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Eindhoven. The first two are older cities, so have plenty of sights to see. Eindhoven is more of a modern Tech meets Art kind of town, so it’s a bit more hipstery. If you have some more time left, you could also decide to travel further south to Maastricht, or to travel further west to Breda, the Hague or Leiden(my current  city) (you could take a different set of trains to Helmond in that case)

Let me know if you need anything more specific for a city

pip bip - choose Corrour > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 01/22/2019 at 03:04

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take a train?

Out, but with a W - has found the answer > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 01/22/2019 at 03:10

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It might be interesting to take the train to Vienna and plan a couple hour-/half day-long stops along the way? (Or focus on one bigger stop)

From memory, depending on the train(s) you take, you can go through Cologne, Frankfurt, Wurzburg, Nurnberg and/or Munich.

Svend > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 01/22/2019 at 03:34

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Helmond is quite a small city, venture slightly further south, well west really to Eindhoven, it’s a ten minute train ride from Helmond to Eindhoven. From there, S-Hertogenbosch (larger again) is a 20 minute train ride north.