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Day 2 - Amsterdam to Cologne 19/12/09

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December 19th 2009
One thing, if you are going to be travelling on these bus tours, dont expect to sleep in! That just never happens. A wake up call at 8am is an amazing sleep in. Dont expect to get many of these! For our morning in Amsterdam, we had to be on the bus for 8:30am. That means breakfast was at 7:45am and wake up call 7am. (I did write a whole pile of these minor notes in my cosmos book, however that wa ... read more

Europe » Netherlands

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The Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815. In 1830 Belgium seceded and formed a separate kingdom. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I, but suffered invasion and occupation by Germany in World War II. A modern, industrialized natio... ... read more