Cycling across the Sea - a tour of the Netherlands on two wheels (part three - the coast)
July 5th 2012 Well if the title of my last blog wasn't strictly accurate, this one actually is - for after spending two nights on the Waddenzee island of Terschelling and then taking the ferry back to the mainland at Harlingen, I soon found myself tackling the 30km-long stretch of the Afsluitdijk, which cuts straight across the North Sea from Friesland to North Holland... against the wind all of the way, of
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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 
