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• Ajax: the most loved and loathed club in Holland

  
  Amsterdam's legendary football club is a household name throughout the world, yet despite, or perhaps owing to, its success the Dutch either love or hate Ajax and there doesn’t seem to be any middle ground....

• Act like a local (1)

  
  Here are some helpful hints and guidelines about local habits and behaviour. Get used to them. In lesson 1 we give you advice about the second most important thing in life: ordering a beer like the locals do....

• Red Light streets

  
  Don’t be one of those tourists fresh off the train that asks the nearest local where the Red Light District is located....

• Caffeine nation

  
  The Dutch love their coffee. On average they slurp three cups of Java per person per day. This, by the way, is only an average....

• Who wants to be a trillionaire?

  
  Recent research has determined that the total value of all property in the Netherlands is over €3....

• The Weed Pass

  
  It's still unclear at the moment whether the National Weed Pass will truly be introduced by the Dutch government....

• Menus: lunch v. dinner

  
  Although many Europeans take it for granted, the Dutch restaurant industry’s custom of offering separate lunch and dinner menus may come as a surprise to visitors from across the pond....

• Amsterdam calendar of events

  
  Here's what's going on in Amsterdam this winter. New Wave icons Echo & the Bunnymen will perform at the Paradiso on January 21....

• Space oddity

  
  If you fly KLM frequently and have collected plenty of air miles, you can soon exchange them for a rather unusual outing....

• Ajax Experience

  
  Although Ajax is no longer the great international power it once was, Amsterdam’s football club is at the top of the table in the Dutch league and is still extremely popular with football tourists....

• Dutch cuisine (1)

  
  Dutch cuisine has a long and interesting history and includes everything from hearty family meals to the lightest of pastries....

• Crisis? What crisis?

  
  Of the 12.6 million Dutch who went on holiday last year, almost half chose to spend time in their own country....

• Shhhh! The Dutch are listening!

  
  Last year 26,000 ‘suspicious phone calls’ were monitored by the police in the Netherlands....