Texel
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Cycling on Texel: Routes and Renting
Last Updated: April 15th 2025. Texel is a beautiful island in the Northwestern part of the Netherlands. It’s a favorite vacation destination for people from the Netherlands and Germany. We’ve visited a few times over the years, just the two of us, but also as a family vacation. Cycling is the easiest way to explore Texel. The island is 463,2 km² (178,9 square miles), so cycling around Texel is easy. It’s our favorite way to spend our time on the island as a family. Cycling on Texel: How to get there Texel is an island, you have to take a ferry from Den Helder. There’s no bridge, the ferry from…
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A Family Vacation Close to Home: Texel
Last Updated: November 5th 2025. This blog post was written in 2020, when there was a pandemic. That’s obviously not the case anymore. So not all discussed here still applies, however Texel is an incredible destination. Which we’ve been to several times. When the intelligent lockdown in 2020 was declared all our vacation and getaway weekend planning was put on hold. When they say stay home and only go out for necessary stuff, I’m not making plans for outings let alone a vacation. After a few months restrictions were slightly loosened, so we booked a long weekend getaway for Acension weekend, a vacation close to home. One of our first…
