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I visit this market every week to get my fresh veg but also for cheese, mushrooms, hummus, nuts etc. There is a big range of products offered here. On wednesdays there is also a section with organic veg and breads. The local cheese shop sells all kind of different typical Dutch cheeses and even seals them so you can take them home in your suitcase. For tourists this is a very nice market to visit in summer. The market is based in the city center of Leiden with a nice canal and lively terraces to sit and have a coffee after shopping. So if you are visiting Leiden, this is a must see!

This is a great market to visit and it makes Leiden an even more interesting place because you can find some real good bargains .Well worth a visit

If tot visit the fruit,flowers and fish market you get the best experience of what Leiden will be for "the leidenaar" Buy some cheese at the place in front of the city hall and if you really like to have a good friendly salesman talk. Ask for Ilias everybody knows Ilias delicatesse! His home made peanut butter is the best if the world ! Have a coffee , lunch or beer at van Engelen Cafe. The best urban cafe of town all kind of people are coming to this cafe and the people are very friendly and you have free wifi! Stroll down on the market at the Niewe Rijn. And have a look at pretty girl a lovely small lingerie shop ! Further down you have some small boutiques and the flowers and fish on Saturday! Have fun ! Wednesdays and Saturdays !

Eat 4 herring for €5, or brodje gambalen for just € 2. Enjoy the oudse Gouda cheese and take some bread home. Not without checking the strawberry icecream at Roberto. See you next saturday.

This is the thing I wanted to experience when I came to Netherlands. A typical market, with local people and delicious local food. Try the fried fish, raw fish sandwich, caramel stroopwaffle and be happy :D

Love going to this market every saturday, mostly to buy fruit, veggies and flowers!Although on of the ends stinks of fish, it is all part of the experience!The best place where all the locals gather, whether they are doing their weekly shopping trips, eating the raw fish, or just sitting on one of the many cafes/bars/restaurants which are located along the canal!Beware that on sunny days it gets insanely busy!

Just 10 mins from Duinrell all the shopping and coffe shops anybody could want or need,cafes bars, C&As Dixons and designer shopsCanal trips more to see than a day allows also a working windmill

A friendly local lady directed us to a less-crowded entrance to the Markt along the Nieuwe Rijn and we enjoyed seeing the variety of products available, it seemed every produce vendor was trying to convince me to buy several containers of their beautiful small local "aarbei" - strawberries, but we were on the lookout for the "nieuwe haring", the 'new haring' just come into season, so I reluctantly refused. I would love to be able to always do my produce and flower and interesting miscellaneous shopping at a market like this. We did find the 'new herring' and a customer at the corner stall encouraged us to try it, we told him we certainly would! We bought a round loaf of turkish bread from a bread baker and 4 herring from one of the fish stalls and sat under the tree at the nearby Hooglandse Kerk to eat our lunch. A highly recommended event if you are there on a Saturday or Wednesday, we never found any public toilet facilities, so 'go' before you go.

This is a wonderful market taking place on Saturdays and Wednesdays, the wednesday one being smaller in size to the saturday option. Spanning both sides of the Rijn in the old centre it really is something good to visit and pick up some thing. The market is separated into sections, with flowers/ plants and fish stands on the north side (other side to the town hall) and fabrics fruit and misc on the south side. The market is only accessable by foot so forget the car, bike parking is ample of course should you come this way. Cheese is of course in ample supply too and everything is available including some nice selections of 3 for 5€ on some stands. For those visitors from outside holland there is also a shop called Australian which does nice icecream and several terraces which stand on the banks of the rijn worth a go which you can see in front of V& D on the opposite side of the river.

The wednesday and saturday markets are held along both sides of the Rijn and on the Corn bridge. The cheese stands are especially great. Make sure to ask for a "prof'", a small sample for a cheese that you do not know. While you are there, sample some Leidsekaas (Leiden Cheese). The cheese stands will vacuum pack the cheese so you can take it back to the U.S. The wednesday market is smaller than the Saturday market. The market closes early and like many areas of Leiden, it is difficult to manuver pushing a wheel chair.

Spent several hours walking around the market, bought some flowers, cheese and at the end had a wonderful snack of haring. Not to miss.

Go and roam around the market for a few hours, having lunch and a couple of beers in a cafe on the way. There is a Wed. market as well, but it isn't as large.

This is really an old fashioned foodmarket, where the whole of Leiden roams around on Saturdays. It is not classy, like burough market in London, for it is not so much a tourist attraction, but the place where citizens go to shop. If you want the local experience: go around ten 'o clock, have a coffee at 'Van Engelen', opposite the 'Vroom & Dreesman' (V&D huge shopping centre, but not worth your time, really) and around eleven, take a walk around the market. It will be busy, and the sellers will be screaming your ears of. Have a 'vietnamese loempia' for a euro near the white bridge, buy some fruit further on, and continue your round. At the other side of the canal you can buy freshly prepared 'Haring' (the raw fish), or, if you do not dare to take on this challenge: watch the Dutchies stuff themselves with it. Take the haringstand on the corner, with the polish employees (it is usually the bussiest) This one is known as the best one among 'Leidenaren'. Something less adventurous can be bought some 20 mettres further: 'Kibbeling'. This is another snack a lot of people buy on saturdays: it is fried peaces of fish with sauce and -a bit like fishfingers- kids like it too, usually. When they hold up a plastic container with a spicemix, and start screaming something that resembles English at you, just say yes: they want to know if you want it with spices and do take it (it's paprikapowder and salt or something; not spicy at all). So, enjoy a real 'Leidse' day like this, it will take you about an hour to walk around. Not because it is such a huge market, but it is busy and people move around slowly. Don't forget to visit the little gem hidden somewhere behind te market in a narrow streat: Het Klaverblad. It is the oldest shop in Leiden, selling coffee and tea. A lot of people will know it, and if they don't: ask for a bar named Odessa, this is in the same street and also quite well known. Have fun!

Попали на рынок выходного дня, много фруктов, сыров, морепродуктов, цветов, всего.., чего душа пожелает. Дамы в возрасте ходят со специальными корзинами и закупают зелень, овощи и фрукты, это целая традиция этого городка, все общаются, здороваются и улыбаются. Как будто все соседи вышли на площадь за покупками и за одним поболтать. Мы перекусили бутербродами с сельдью, очень вкусно оказывается, туда добавляют свежий лук. Сельдь разного посола, мы такое видели первый раз и нам это очень понравилось. Купили ягоды и там же приговорили. Обязательно посетите рынок выходного дня, это очень интересно.

Dit maakt Leiden een nog mooiere stad. Hele leuke markt zo langs het water. Veel leuke dingen en lekker eten kopen. Lekker dichtbij een winkelstraat en vele restaurantjes. Toppie!