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Environs. HAARLEM. 42. Route. 361
Overveen (Hotel van ouds het Raadhuis, 32 R. at 14/5-3 fi.,
with restaurant; Café-Restaurant Rozendaal; Café Brouwerskolkje,
on the pond 1/y M. to the S.W.), 1 M. to the W. of Haarlem, a
station on the railway to Zandvoort (see below), affords a view of
the dunes made famous by Jacob van Ruysdael’s landscapes. From
Overveen station a fine highroad (Duin en Daal Weg) leads to the
N.E., passing numerous private grounds and gardens and the tram-
way-terminus, to (4 M.) —
Bloemendaal (Hétel Hartenlust, near the rail. station, with
garden, 20 R. from 2, D. Qt/o fl.; Hotel Welgelegen, Hotel Kenne-
merland, both in the principal street), a station on the railway
from Haarlem to Uitgeest (p. 440) and terminus of the tramway
mentioned on p. 354. On the edge of the dunes to the W. of the
village lies the Bloemendaalsche Park, with numerous country-
s and the charmingly situated *Hdtel Duin en Daal (40 R.
Qt/o, B. 3/4, déj. 1, D. 24/5, pens. from 5 fl., with restaurant).
About 1 M. to the N. of Bloemendaal is the Hotel-Restaurant Duin-
lust (25 R. from 24/9, D. 21/p fl.).
From the Hétel Duin en Daal and from Duinlust roads lead
through woods and meadows, passing the grounds of the lunatic
asylum of Meerenberg, to the red brick ruins of the chateau of
Brederode, once the seat of the powerful counts of that name,
dating from the 13th cent. but freely restored. Near the ruins is
the Café-Restaurant Velserend. The *View from the dunes to the
N.W. of Meerenberg, known as the Blauwe Trappen or Brederodesche
Berg (200 ft.), embraces to the E. the admirably cultivated and partly
wooded plains of N. Holland (the ‘Kennemerland’), Haarlem, the
Haarlemmer and Wyker Meer, the Y, Amsterdam, and the innumer-—
able wind-mills of the Zaanland; to the W. are the undulating and
sterile sand-hills. — A road leads from the Velserend and Bre-
derode to the (3/4 M.) station of Sandpoort (p. 410).
Daily Cirzcurar Tours (fare 2 fl.) are made from July 15th to Sept. 15th
by the steamer ‘Volbarding VI (rimts. on board), starting at 10.20 a.m.
from the r Spaarne (beyond the Prinsen Bolwerk, Pl. E, 4). The
steamer des the Spaarne via Spaarndam to the Worth Sea Canal (p. 406),
which it quits a little later by the Nauernasche Vaart (comp. Map, p. 406),
leading via Wauerna to the Zaan. We return via Koog aan de Zaan and
Zaandam (p. 406; halt of 41/, hr.), reaching Haarlem at 4.30 p.m.
From HAARLEM To ZANDyooRT, 5!/y M., two routes. 4. Branch
line of the state-railway (p. xxxiii; through carriages from Amster-
dam in summer), in 1/4hr., via Overveen (see above). — 2. Electric
tramway (p. 394), in 26 min., running near the highroad, which
diverges from the Leyden road to the S. of Haarlem.
Zandvoort. — Hotels (comp. p. xxviii; at the height of the season it
is advisable to engage rooms in advance). °Granp-Horex (Pl. a), 490 R. at
3-9 fl., B. 80c., déj. 1'/2-43/4. D. 21/2-81/o, pens. 71/2-44 fl., with lift, terrace,
and restaurant; “HOTEL p’ORANGE (PI. b), 160 R. at 2-4, B. 2/4, D. 21/2, pens. |
