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• Toasting in Dutch

  
  In case if you meet new drinking buddies in one of the old town cosy pubs, it's always good to know how to toast in the national language....

• Little Antwerp

  
  The Old Market is a small square that has recently developed into a lively outdoor attraction covered in café terraces....

• Space Oddity

  If you frequently fly KLM and collected many Air Miles, you can soon exchange them for a rather unusual outing; the Netherlands’ largest airline company will start offering trips into space from 2014 onward....

• Theaters Tilburg: where talent and humour know no boundaries

  
  Tilburg is a true student city. Foreign ‘scholars’ from all corners of the globe have travelled to this beautiful provincial town to attend Tilburg University or one of many other colleges available here....

• Orphaned bikes

  
  The Netherlands is the only country in the world where there are more bikes (18 million) than inhabitants (16....

• Jan Taminiau

  
  In het Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg is vanaf 27 januari 2013 de tentoonstelling 'Het ambacht van JANTAMINIAU' te zien....

• A step behind the Scandinavians

  
  The Scandinavian countries of Finland, Sweden and Denmark top the list of the 'Happiest Consumers' in Europe, while the Netherlands was ranked just below them in fourth place....

• Bike heaven

  
  For years Dutch employers have reimbursed the purchase of a bicycle for employers who cycle to work. Since the end of 2009, however, the following law was passed by former government parties: employees with an electric bicycle or scooter will receive a reimbursement of 19 euro cents per kilometre....

• Shhhh! The Dutch are Listening!

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

• Who wants to be a trillionaire?

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

• In Your Pocket video guides

  In Your Pocket goes into the movie business... Kind of... Over the past years we have gradually been putting together some extensive video guides to various In Your Pocket cities, using our own editors, writers and local researchers as presenters....

• Wear a helmet!

  In many countries wearing a bicycle helmet is compulsory, but for many years the liberal Dutch have avoided this practical piece of safety gear like the plague....

• Act like a local (1)

  
  Here are some helpful hints and guidelines about local habits and behaviour. Some apply to the Netherlands in general and the province Brabant while others are truly typical of Tilburg....

• Hot air ballooning in Holland

  
  Weary from a crowded Ryanair flight to Weeze that put one in mind of a budget bus ride to a cheap casino in Vegas, we finally arrived at our friend’s hostel ready for a day of rest and relaxation in the countryside far away from any city or traffic noise....