Early Winter Benelux Tour 2012
A Wintry Tour of The Netherlands and Belgium sans Luxembourg 26 November – 8 December 2012 Amsterdam (26 November 2012) The travel bug has bitten again. This time round it makes the victim (that’s yours truly) taking a risk of a different kind. After last year’s adventures in the land of the Pyramids amid the Arab Spring revolution, we are going to fly some 11,000 km to Europe. I know either Dutch, nor French nor German, yet I am taking my family single-handedly on a trip, embarking on a journey to the Benelux countries (namely Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), without joining a tour group or tour agency of any sorts, and foremost of all, without much fanfare. Amsterdam being our first stop, is the largest city, and of course, the capital of the Netherlands. Its principal language is Dutch. The city's status as the capital of the nation is governed by the constitution with a population of 820,256 within city limits, an urban populatio...