Ubbergen, Netherlands

It’s very safe for children to play outside. There are plenty of playgrounds, one situated right behind our garage. The neighborhood is situated between the rivers Rijn and Waal with its grass lands and farms (loads of fruit trees!) and very near the city centre of Nijmegen.

Sports
Five minutes from our house you can jump on to one of the best, coolest, haviest mountainbikes trails of the Netherlands. 73 Kilometers of trail. Check https://www.mtb-rijkvannijmegen.nl/ and this Youtube video; https://youtu.be/_v2ihTBYiXE
Right in front of our house a butifull bikeroute passes by. And on top of that you can go for hours and hours of also hiking from our house. Nearby you can find several sportsfields like tenniscourts, footballfields and much more.

Region
The city of Nijmegen is only 100 meters away. https://youtu.be/czbpeTEJ3FI Nijmegen has lots to offer for every visitor; old architecture, museums, lots of restaurants and bars for every pocket, many festivals (especially in summer!), theaters, parks and a beautiful environment with tiny villages, forests and two rivers. Nijmegen is very bike-friendly. https://youtu.be/Rn4UUJ5M4No We have three regular city bikes, one racing bike and two mountain bikes.

Culture
We would like to recommend the Kröller-Möller museum with a beautiful collection of paintings from Vincent van Gogh. The museum is surrounded by a sculpture garden and situated as a whole in the middle of a large nature conservation area. Very special!
A part of Dutch culture is also “de Efteling", a kind of fairy tale park. Everyone in the Netherlands goes there as a child, as a parent and as a grandparent.
Typical for Nijmegen culture is the “Vierdaagse”, a four day march with 40.000 people walking in the area of Nijmegen accompanied by a large festival (all sorts of music, art, activities you can imagine) with over 1 million visitors (14-20 july 2012).

Nature
Our house is situated in very small village in a landscape of rivers and dykes, perfect area for making a bike tour or hike. Our house is situated right at the bottom of the small hills on the east of Nijmegen who provide a beautiful view over the Ooijpolder. Also a large forest area with possibilities for hiking and biking is 3 minutes walking away. Worth to mention are also the typical sand dunes on the North Sea Coast and the Waddeneilanden (Dutch islands) in the north.

Transport
Every 30 minutes there is a bus to Nijmegen Central Station (bus stop at 3 minute walk). From Nijmegen Central Station there are regular trains to all parts of The Netherlands. The city centers of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and also many touristic highlights are reachable by train within 100 minutes.
By car you’re only 10 minutes away from the highways to all directions (all on highways).
Nearby airports are Weeze (Germany, 30 minutes by car), Eindhoven (60 mins by car) Dusseldorf (Germany, 60 minutes by car) and Amsterdam Schiphol (90 minutes by car or train). Arnhem Central Station is a nearby international railway station with trains coming in from the direction of Switzerland, but also Berlin.