Castricum
Castricum is a municipality and a town in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands.
Getting to Castricum
From Amsterdam, use the A8 highway to travel towards Zaandam, use the unlabelled exit after exit 3 followed by a right turn onto the N8, heading for Wormerveer, after which you take the first exit followed by another right turn onto the continuation of the N8 follow this road, which will become the N203 after crossing underneath the A9 highway. Follow the N203 through Uitgeest, and turn onto the N513 afterwards.
Worth seeing
- 01Museum Huis van Hilde
Westerplein 6 (Located on the west side of the railway station.),.
Things to do
Being located by the beach, Castricum is fit for activities such as Surfing. Can't surf but wanting to learn how to? There's a surfing school as well as a kite-surfing school in Castricum aan Zee:
- 01Surfschool Castricum aan Zee
Zeeweg, Castricum aan Zee, info@surfschoolcastricum.nl.
- 02Kite-surfing School
The dunes located between the North Sea coast and Castricum are some 3.5 km (2.2 mi) wide, making them a great area to have a hike through nature.
Getting around Castricum the local way
- Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
- Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
- Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).
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