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• Who wants to be a trillionaire?

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

• 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....

• 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....

• Toasting in Dutch

  
  In case you meet some new drinking buddies in one of the old town's cosy pubs, you might want to know how to toast in Dutch....

• 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 's-Hertogenbosch....

• 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....

• Dutch society

  
  The obscure facts that follow were selected purely at random. They either give an impression of how Dutch society functions and what a small country can achieve or, perhaps, just the opposite....

• Less tourists in Holland

  
  Due to the economic crisis, the number of foreign tourists in the Netherlands has been in steady decline....

• Beetle

  
  The Volkswagen Beetle is the most popular 'old timer' in the Netherlands. This German-produced car's popularity is probably due to the fact that for many Dutch it was their first private vehicle....

• Oldest National Anthem

  
  The Dutch Wilhelmus is the oldest national anthem in the world. The first stanza is the part that is usually sung or played at official events....

• Medieval times today

  
  Holland's largest theme park, the Efteling in Kaatsheuvel near Tilburg, opened a new theme park show in the middle of 2011....

• 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....

• Sticks and stones

  
  In other countries, the mere mumbling of swear words like 'klootzakken', 'kankerlijers', 'losers' and 'sukkels' (which are all impossible to translate) to a police officer would be sufficient for at least a night in jail....

• Never Again: Herzogenbusch Concentration Camp

  
  ‘You always had to navigate around the dangers of camp life. This caused a constant sense of fear....