In April my husband and I traveled to The Netherlands and Belgium. On several of the days we were there I was very cold. So cold at one point I had to cut our site seeing short. I knew I should have brought the packable insulated jacket I purchased for this trip. It was 80 degrees at home the day we left. And the temps in Amsterdam had been in the upper 60s. But 60s in Holland and 60s here in Pa feel different. Could be the canals or the fact it's almost always breezy, but whatever the reason, it was chilly! Pack light but be sure to take a couple warm items when traveling there in Spring!
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Your post gave me a laugh because of a memory it gave me from last year. We were on a river cruise in late May that started in Amsterdam. We made friends with an Australian couple and I met them for a bike ride one morning. Temperature was in the 60's and they arrived shivering in puffer jackets and jeans while I had on shorts and a light jacket. They'd left home with the temperature in the high 80's while we left home with temps in the 50's...shorts weather.
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Two years ago in late April, early May we had sunny 60's & 70's. We were so lucky. Imagine Keukenhof sunny and nearly 80. But our day at the WW1 Battlefields in Belgium was so cold with wind and rainy/sleet that I couldn't focus on what our local tour guide was saying. She never batted an eye at the miserable weather!