The Netherlands offers one of Europe's most concentrated cultural programmes per square kilometre. Guided tours of the Rijksmuseum — focused on Rembrandt's Night Watch and Vermeer's Milkmaid with a specialist art historian — and the Van Gogh Museum with audio tour are the Amsterdam anchors. The Anne Frank House visit, best booked well in advance, provides one of the most direct Second World War cultural encounters available anywhere. Delft ceramics workshop experiences, Hague school painting tours at the Mauritshuis, and guided cycling tours of the tulip field landscape in April extend the cultural programme beyond the city. Traditional jenever tasting at a historic distillery, Dutch design studio visits in Eindhoven during Design Week, and guided windmill heritage tours complete a varied cultural calendar. It really hits differently.