I Tried Cycling from Amsterdam to Utrecht-Here's what I didn't expect
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- I tried cycling from Amsterdam to Utrecht to test out the cycle paths! Lots of interesting stuff, injury and all.
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None of your suggested routes were the nicest. You need to take the cycling route following the vecht (east side). It’s without doubt the prettiest.
Did this last year and it was like cycling through a dutch tourism-catalogue. Really beautiful.
It would also be a lot faster then going all the way past Hilversum.
Super pretty but I think this route is best if you want to see normal life in the Netherlands!
Yes you can make your own route using the "knooppunten"
I fully agree. Probably one of the nicest bike routes in The Netherlands and as far as I can judge, also a shorter one. For years I never checked maps also not in city's but nowadays I understand you also miss a lot. BTW the spot where you didn't understand the round about you made a mistake (or google maps) because the signs to Utrecht are not sending you to the left.
We don't have mountains but make it up for it with head wind. Usually changing direction when kids cycle back from school in the afternoon.
Yup, our Dutch mountains. 😉
Except Limburg 😊
@@jolotschka Limburg (NL/B/D) is weer een héél ander verhaal ;-)
@@jolotschka And the Utrechtse Heuvelrug he decided to cycle up 😂
Headwind is not a problem with a recumbent
Utrecht = 👍
Entschuldigen = "Sorry" or "Pardon"
Gracias = "Bedankt"
"What a cute little town" = as a matter of fact, it actually is a city, the fourth in size of the Netherlands.
Bedankt is casually said as 'Dank je wel' or 'Dank je,' but Thanks works too.
Sorry, pardon, excuseer mij, excuus - all work as well
@@lorettabes4553 “ga weg” works great for me 😂😂
There you have 2-3 stories buildings with rather large streets even in the center of "town". In Italy we have medieval or renaissance historic center with very narrow alleys and house of 4-5-6 stories. All of the building outside are taller than that up until the very outskirts of city and every space in between is crammed with cars. Basically most cities boomed only at start of the the 20th century when concrete and big social housing were a thing but cars not so much so we ended up with the worst of both worlds: packed, crowded cities with insufficient roads and parking space to make some more room and separate traffic decently. This situation has been let to rot up until recent times when every transfer during rush hour is a nightmare and cycleways in bigger cities are a savage dream
@@cochazza keep in mind, a lot of the booming cities we had before the 20th century got bombed flat and rebuilt to be more modern. the further east you go the less necessity we have to build higher or close together, since there's less people there too
To add to this list, they were singing "lang zal die leven" It's a birthday song, they were congratulating someone for their birthday, it means as much as: "we wish you a long life." The glass says"eeuwige jeugd" which means "eternal youth"
Notice to other travelers: Credit Cards are not commonly used in the Netherlands. Debit bank cards are the most common. It usually has the Meastro logo on it (and even then, if you are foreign, you have to make sure beforehand you are allowed to pay in-store with them and cant only use them at ATM's).
Its not like credit cards aren't used at all but they are often only used in specific types of industries, like a gas station. A business needs to pay for their digital payment platforms and often it simply isn't worth it in the Netherlands to pay for multiple payment platforms as it costs a lot and its being used very little.
100% of the Dutch adults has a debit card. Only few people have credit cards, usually for big expenses, because The Netherlands isn't as debt driven like the US or other countries.
Maestro is in the process of being phased out, it probably depends on the country when it will happen, but my Belgian Maestro-enabled cards were both replaced earlier this year with a new Visa Debit and Mastercard Debit card, depending on the bank. So it's basically the same payment network, and the distinction between credit card and debit card payments will likely disappear. Maybe this little cafe had an older payment terminal, but I think international customers won't have to worry if their (Visa or Mastercard) is accepted in the near future. Anyway, this is one of the reasons I also carry a little cash with me at all times. Even the most trustworthy system can break down.
@@barvdw correct. Both Meastro and V-Pay are being phased out in the Netherlands. If your card expires the new card that will be send to you will be a Mastercard or a Visacard. Do note that these will still be debit cards and not credit cards. Until all cards have been replaced you can continue to pay with Meastro and V-Pay, which can take several years.
@@StartPlayFinish They didn't wait for the expiration date to replace the older Maestro cards in Belgium, my former cards were valid until 2027 and 2028, respectively, and yet, they were replaced. And yes, they are debit cards and not credit cards, but as they use the same payment network, I'd guess that credit card acceptance would be standard when the new payment terminals are being rolled out (or at least have a software update)...
Tourists shouldn't leave Amsterdam.
That's why it's there. To keep Tourists happy.
@@Be-Es---___ Tourists are great in homeopathic dosage, it's when they overwhelm the local population and the local infrastructure that they become harmful.
The wind is always a headwind in the Netherlands. Always. Not just for our grandfathers. Just always. Lol
@@nijntje666 not true, I distinctly remember the two times I didn't have headwind.
Also, it is always uphill, both ways, despite the landscape looking flat.
@@jfw413 I swear there are bits that look uphill but are downhill and vice versa.
It's so funny to me that you say 'Entschuldigung' cause in the Netherlands we just say 'Sorry'. It's a slightly different accent from the English one but with how well you pronounce Utrecht it probably wouldn't even be noticed (plus a lot of Dutch people might say it with an English accent anyway. And yes, I am aware there is no such thing as 'one English accent').
Years ago (80's), I was working in a backpackers hostel in London. One day this girl came in, and myself and the other person I worked with got chatting with her. After about 10-15 min's, I just could not place her English accent, and I had rules out all the English accents I'd heard, so I just had to ask her where she was from, she said Holland. I was a bit shocked, as I was not ready for some that spoke like they came from the UK, to be from another country.
@@maximushaughton2404 We learn English at school from the age of 10. UK English, not USA English. And I think that's why in the 80's we spoke better English than nowadays with the influence of social media where a lot is American instead of English.
Entschuldigung is german..lol 🤣🤣
As a Dutchman I like to say 'Entschuldigung' when abroad because it makes them think it's always the damn Germans causing them inconvenience.
@@ColoredIceberg😂
At 17:15 they were singing the Dutch version of happy birthday. Actually in the Netherlands there is quite a variety of birthday songs.
Zolang je maar afsluit met lang zal ze leven.😂
@@Treinbouwer Vooral als je de verjaardag van een man viert. /s . . . En vergeet je 'in de gloria' dan niet?
@@TreinbouwerOf lang zal hij leven, voor jongens en mannen
@@Apollorion Ik vermoed dat treinbouwer het eerder had over dat er meerdere verjaardagsliedjes zijn maar dat je altijd moet eindigen met het 'lang zal ze/hij leven' liedje.
Ter info, ik ben Vlaming, geen Nederlander.
Maar ik heb al regelmatig situaties meegemaakt waar meer dan 1 verjaardagsliedje na elkaar wordt gezongen en het 'lang zal ze/hij leven' liedje is inderdaad vaak wel hetgene dat laatste wordt gezongen (met op het einde dan enkele keren "hiep hiep hiep, hoera!"). Geen idee of dit puur toeval is of een ongeschreven regel waar de meesten zich niet van bewust zijn, maar die ze toch volgen.
@@lauralaura396 Bedankt voor je toelichting. Ik zag dat 'lang ze leven' niet als titel in. En mbt toeval of ongeschreven regel: de aapsoort die zichzelf in het Nederlands mens noemt, heeft een instinctueel voorkeur voor patronen boven chaos en dat houdt in gedrag tradities in stand. Op de schaal van subatomaire deeltjes is het nochtans zo goed als puur toeval.
Detail: that "stunning giant cathedral" (the St. Vitus Church, 11:37) was designed by Pierre Cuypers, who was also responsible for the Rijksmuseum and Amsterdam Centraal railway station. But then, he was primarily in the church biz.
And Castle de Haar.
Dat is een leuk feitje waar ik ook niet van wist. Ik ben daar vroeger vaak langs gefietst, maar nooit geweten wie de architect was.
In addition to your seat being too high, I also think you are cycling in too high a gear. It's better for your knees (as well as more efficient) to choose a lower gear and pedal with a higher frequency (in the 70 - 80 rpm range). In addition, it's better to pedal with the balls of your feet rather than the middle. The ball of your foot is made to carry loads, your arches aren't, so it's better for your feet. In addition, it is also more efficient as you can use your calf muscles more effectively.
Great tips. Use the old 'koffiemolen'. I like to ride between 70-90 rpm, I found even with wind in the back, the highest gears are usually not the most efficient for a bike trip.
With the seat too low, you will feel quicker fatigue in the upper leg muscles, and maybe in other muscles like the glutes.
Seat too high is bad for the joints, when using the ball of the foot to paddle, the ankles also feel it not just the knees.
You can just adjust the seat whenever you feel discomfort, especially rental bikes have quick release saddles.
True, it is better to cycle with a higher frequency. It helped me a lot, cycling in a lower gear. The saddle looks a bit high indeed and those tight jeans might not be that helpful either. ;) Crazy though, that injuries can happen that quickly. My friend once had a rental bike that was a bit too big (saddle too high) and she got the same sharp pains in her knee. It took a while for her to recover.
Indeed.
Yeah. His legs are really moving at a very low frequency.
Either the bike is providing a lot of assist, or he is messing up his knees.
I have a chronic knee injury and I prefer to have my saddle a little higher (less bend of the knee at the highest point) but if you're able to paddle with the middle of your foot, I can't imagine your saddle being to high. I personally use the ball of my foot to paddle. If you have to move in the saddle from left to right your saddle is too high
I'm only in my late 20's, but headwind both ways cycling an hour to school was definitely a thing I experienced 😅
Headwinds are always the direction I'm facing on the bike. Weird...
yup, usually when doing groceries i plan ahead, pick a grocery store that won't give me headwind on the way back. I then have about 30 mins of shopping time to be close to certain the winddirection hasn't changed yet.
When I went to school from Franeker to Harlingen in my teens, I always, *always* was cycling against the wind. I still hear myself complaining why half a day later the damn wind turned.
i have forgotten stuff at home, turned around and had headwind again. forget Dr Evils plans for world domination, some supervillain has a wind machine for each of us
@@relo999 because a lot of the time they're sidewinds
I spent a week cycle touring the Netherlands this summer and loved the network of safe lanes. Then I had to come home to Kent where cyclists are the bottom of the food chain and you risk your life every day on your bike. I think our Dutch friends sometimes forget how great their infrastructure is.
No we don't, we appreciate it a lot 🙂
You could have used the path next to the Amsterdam-Rhine Channel all the way. It’s fast because you will use a separate bike way with almost no cars beside you, just on the dyke. No trafic lights just ride on. It ends in A‘dam at the Schellingwoudebrug. So near Weesp, Driemond stay on the dyke.
True. I only started realising how very good our infrastucture actually is and appreciating it more since watching TH-cam video's from Not just bikes and video's like this one.
You can change it!
The Dutch are not some magical breed of humans.
We elect our politicians and advocate for changes we want.
Local initiatives help a lot as well. And showing up to town meetings and talking to local government officials involved in planning.
@@weerwolfproductions But we complain about it like we complain about everything
"Wacht op groen" = please wait till the traffic light turns green.
Also, fietsenstalling = bike storage. As 'fiets' is the Dutch word for bike. However, it has nothing to do with your feet (as those are 'voeten' in Dutch)
[I'll just add my comment to this one so they are conveniently grouped.]
@@ernavill3261 I think that was a joke because to and English person it kinda sounds like "feets and"
heh dutch being fun again - thats essentially "wait on green" thrown through the ringer a bit^^
@@FoggyMcFogFace I know, but the statement genuinely got me wondering where the word fiets came from, because I knew in English, French and German the word has a logical origin.
EN: bicycle literally means 2 wheels
FR: vélo comes from vélocipède and means moved by feet.
GER: fahrrad means something like drive wheel.
Yet the etymology of the word 'fiets' is not as obvious, and apparently even not known for certain.
@@ernavill3261 I thought it was a corruption of the French word "vitesse", but looking at my Etymologisch Woordenboek (De Vries & De Tollenaere, 1991 printing) they mention a modification of the French "velocipede" (vielesepee, flitsepee), with the final form appearing by 1870 in Apeldoorn, influenced by a couple of existing Dutch and dialect words - at least I think that's what it is saying - Dutch is not my first language!
As a Dutch civil servant concerned with cycling policies and traffic enforcement I couldn't help notice how often you actually cycled into a one-way cycle path from the wrong side 😂
We have that in a lot of places where the (peak) intensity of cyclists compared to the width of the cycle path doesn't allow for two-way cycling. You are ought to cross the road to the other cycle path (which will probably be one-way too), although most Dutch cyclists ignore traffic laws altogether... 😬
And I have to agree with a lot of the other comments that the route along the Vecht River is much more scenic than the route alongside the N236 and N417. If only you turned right just after you crossed the Weesperbrug and went towards Nigtevecht. 😄
I had actually chosen the western route for a more diverse experience! I wanted to pass through more towns than just have a scenic journey :)
@@EvanEdingerTravelthe route along the Vecht banks is the western one
@@waldogadellaa oops misspoke
He seems to be cycling on the right side of the road the whole video to me
@@lorettabes4553you even see a no entry sign at 13:53
i'm giggling at the consistent use of "small town" in regards to Hilversum, that's one of *THE* cities i grew up knowing about and admiring
AND Utrecht as well?? oh my, thanks for humbling us evan
Having just done a bike ride between ottawa and montreal in canada, you have no idea how jealous i am of all these high quality bike paths. It makes a huge difference
Do you know the TH-cam channel: Not Just Bikes, it will increase jealousy, yet may also help convince local government to change things at home. (It's by a Canadian who moved to NL and looks at (bike) infrastructures around the world)
@@KootFlorisI’d also advise Active Towns, as he tends to show more improvements made elsewhere without focusing on (urban) Dutch bicycle infrastructure.
@@DanDanDoe great addition!
Yeah, I'm in Toronto, and finding even low-grade bike paths into and out of Toronto is nigh impossible. Some would say "ah, but the Waterfront Trail!". Give me a break, the best trails in Ontario at least, are rail-trails, and none get you in or out of Toronto.
The Nederlands looks like a dream.
@@stephensaines7100 I am Dutch, and your dream is a treasured reality. And it came to be through tough fights fought by a cyclist union for the number of dead kids in traffic in the seventies, and in your case it might be for unliveable suburbs if you don't own a car (which is all young kids) and include number of deaths through obesity, car fumes and everything else. Rage against the oil machine for your future. Cycling does a lot of good.
That bumpy road was next to the griftpark. I cyle there regularly and its the worst path in Utrecht :p its the trees pushing up through the pavement. Most everywhere else in Utrecht is good :p
Edit: they were singing happy birthday at the end :D
Yeah, and the way in along Groenekan is also not great. Alround back luck with the route into Utrecht
I recently moved to Utrecht. Bike paths here are definitely subpar compared to national standards, it's very noticeable. I've cycled for a few 100kms now and I've hit some spectacular potholes and as you said, a lot of tree roots. But it's annoying to have to watch the road all the time.
Not the worst. The worst are in Lunetten..
@@aseq2 You can have a 100km trip from the southeastern corner of Berlin to the Spreewald ... but it's going to be a mix of compacted but sandy forest paths and roads with the occasional "meh" (super narrow) cycling path. It's still fun to do and might even make you come across a beaver / water rat blocking your path.
I dont recognized the road. But you took the road via Hilversum. I prefer cycling along the river Vecht. Its shorter and more scenic. Like Old big mansions.
I'll have to go back for round 2
He probably got no good cycling route app on his iPhone 😊
Yeah, the Vecht route is the nicest, the Amsterdam-Rijn channel the fastest.
@@EvanEdingerTravelIt'll be even better with the saddle at the right height ;-)
Yes straigth to the south to Utrecht not via east to Hilversum and than back to the west to Utecht.
As Dutch person that doesn't live in Amsterdam, I kind of appreciate how most of the tourism is contained in that area. At the same time Amsterdam is a lot more busy and hectic than most of the rest of the country so it's not the most accurate representation, I honestly feel like a bit of a tourist myself when I go there which I don't get for any other Dutch city.
There's not really a good translation for entschuldigung, "sorry" works in some situations (literally the same word and meaning as in english). For thanks there's "dankjewel" or "bedankt"
At the roundabout you were supposed to go around the left, the cycle lane with stripes down the middle is two-way but it is a little weird how that roundabout was laid out.
Amsterdam is where all the first time tourist go, and of course the ones that want to cause trouble (drinking, smoking stuff, etc)
but the tourist that wants to experience the real Netherlands and/or already knows what the country has to offer venture all over.
i live on the edge of the Veluwe and here there are loads of Germans every holiday, they love the camping's and cycling through the forests around here.
Alsow the other way around. When i told them i came from Zeeland in a coffeeshop their eyes went big and couldnt believe it 😂 but yeah i definitely feel like a tourist in Amsterdam
Pardon works.
@@ChristiaanHWmy first visit to the Netherlands was a trip to Rotterdam from Vlissingen, my second was a trip to Rotterdam and Keukenhof, then Sluis, and finally Amsterdam. its odd but i prefer Utrecht to Amsterdam people seem to have more time and fewer tourists. When i do go to Amsterdam for the day from Utrecht as part of my holiday I always use Zuid and the Metro as CS is just too busy. I have Ov will travel, I speak some Dutch, I have the AH app on my phone and collect my plastic bottles :)
Unfortunately Utrecht is now getting a lot of tourism as well. It's still disable, but I hope it won't get much worse.
Fun Fact: Hilversum, which you went through, was for many years the ultimate "media city". Nearly every radio station, Television station, film stuidos in the Netherlands would be found in Hilversum. It's a lot more spread out now, but there is still a strong media presence in Hilversum.
Hillywood!
@@JasperJanssen Is that the nickname for it? If so, that's really cool, man.
@@robertwilloughby8050yes, and most media still is there.
@@JasperJanssen or Beverly Hilversum
@@robertwilloughby8050 it’s not that common, but you do hear it sometimes.
Cute little town??? Utrecht is one of the biggest cities in the Netherlands 😂😂😂
Compared to cities in most other countries Utrecht (and I would even say Amsterdam), are small.
Guy lives in London and Utrecht has less than 500k people. I think his idea of what counts as a city is a bit skewed
@@Paul-qj4drEven in European perspective Utrecht and Amsterdam are large cities.
Utrecht has about 375.000 inhabitants which would place it as fifth in France, just larger than Nice. 16th in Germany, just behind Duisburg. 8th in Italy, about as big as Florence. And in Spain it would be 10th, being bigger than Bilbao.
Amsterdam is significantly bigger. With almost 950.000 citizens it would the 2nd city in France, 5th city in Germany, 4th in Italy and 3rd in Spain.
It’s also important to understand that in the USA they would include a lot of the neighboring municipalities into the city. For Amsterdam this would be Amstelveen, Diemen, Zaandam, Haarlem and a few others. For Utrecht it would include Nieuwegein, Vianen, Houten, De Bilt and Maarssen.
I'm from Amsterdam, and even Amsterdam is a town tbh.
@@ainmosni42tuurlijk en london is een provinciaal stadje….
"Gracias, I mean danke, I mean... damn it." - And she's long gone, peak comedy.
The Netherlands is such an inspiring country in terms of great public transport to create alternatives to car dependency.
I’d love to travel there someday.
According to De Filmende Fietser, a Dutch cycle nerd based in Utrecht and cycling advocate, the Dutch despite not being a sovereign currency issuer relying on the euro, unlike us Brits with our pound, invest around €500 million a year on cycling infrastructure. Seems expensive, until you realise that the effects of building quality infrastructure that people can easily use prevents around 6,500 premature deaths and saves their healthcare system €19 billion.
And import and use less oil.
I use the car for big distances,and real bad wheater,,but stil love driving that thing.
If i go to the supermarket,i am faster with my bike,than with the car to.
Maybe, but much more important it saves us a lot time and traffic jams.
Public transport is just getting a bit expensive.
If all dutch people that use their bikes on their daily commutes our city centers would be an horrific traffic jam non stop.
Our public transportation is good, yes, but for average person it's sooo (maybe even too) expensive and during the busy hours it's very busy so you have to stand. Nowadays it's cheaper to go by car alone than take the train. And they tickets after going to get even more expensive in 2025, with the reason that nobody takes the train anymore....stupid
In the Netherlands the legal rule is that if there is no sidewalk you are allowed to use the bike lane. However if there is plenty of room to overtake it's not seen as a problem for joggers to be there even if there is a sidewalk.
I've been thought that if there is no sidewalk you walk on the opposite side of the road so you see the oncoming (bike) traffic so you can see it coming and consider if and when you need to step out off the road to avoid problems. This was before everyone had a phone with a pocket light app so being visible was more of a concern.
@@jfw413 no need for a phone, just need a small lamp
@@jfw413 Up to 1995 it was mandatory to walk on the opposite side of the road so you can see oncoming traffic and step tot the side if neccessary. It is is still the wise thing to do. Also is you want to pass an other bike it is in general usefull tot ring your `bike-bell` especially if you have a fast e-bike. Also with windnoise you are not always able to hear someone coming up form behind! Better safe then sorry!
And you missed the cycling superhighway next to the canal! 30 kilometer without a traffic light or junction
The red street was a fietsstraat (cycling street) which prioritizes cycling but allows use by cars as guests
Een FIETSPAD. Het woord fietsstraat, is geen Nederlands woord
@@demooisteNAAM op een fietspad mogen alleen fietsen. Op een fietsstraat mogen ook autos te gast. Het zijn twee verschillende woorden voor verschillende dingen.
Zoek het woord fietsstraat maar eens op.
@@demooisteNAAM het staat letterlijk op de weg 🤣🤣
Mind that there is no actual difference between a "fietsstraat" and a normal (30km/h) street, other than the colour of the asphalt. The road colour and street sign at the start do nothing more than kindly ask car drivers to please be considerate of the cyclists.
As a cyclist, it's best to ignore these streets and just use them as if the asphalt was black.
@@DantevanGemert nah, you just want cyclists out of your way, it's for cyclists, and so cyclists should cycle proudly in the middle, not on the sides as if it's for cars
Talks with waitress in english -> continues to thank her in spanish xD.
Yeah, the Mr. Bean vibes were very strong. 😅
The people in the street sang a dutch birthday song:
Dutch: Lang zal hij leven, lang zal hij leven, lang zal hij leven in de gloria. In de glo-ri-a, in de glo-ri-a!
English: Long shall he live, long shall he live, long shall he live in the glory. In the glo-ry, in the glo-ry!
Gloria is an old word and means Glory but we dont use the word gloria anymore. (The song is from 1860, at least the first known written words were writen in 1860) The modern word for Glory is Glorie and we pronounce it the same as in English but with a softer g.
I know you know this but for those that don't. Its a birthday song.
@@Louquethat i already gave that information in my comment tho 😋
7:36 it doesn't look like an upscale suburb. 80s copy paste buildings that haven't been improved, just grass as a green space, poorly maintained sidewalks. In a town these are your cheaper homes to buy, but majority is probably rental.
Indeed.
It is row townhouses. Those are not in upscale neighbourhoods.
Those would have detached houses or maybe some semi-detachted houses.
Well if that's "copy and paste" in Holland, I'm even more impressed with how tidy and well-kept the neighbourhood is.
I'm an avid distance cyclist, and somehow I've got to get to the Nederlands and do some touring there....with my own bike, and no, not an E-assist one.
@@stephensaines7100 it's something we don't appreciate enough because it's our normal and looks rather boring.
If you want to cycle in the Netherlands I would recommend looking on Nederlandfietsland for beautiful routes. The longest route is one that takes you all around the Netherlands in 21 days and visits all but two of our provinces in 1373km. Characteristic villages and towns, dunes, dikes, forests, polders, rivers, heathland, hills; this tour has it all.
@@rogerwilco2 By now, however, even those ultra bland 80s row houses have gotten so expensive anywhere in the Randstad, that they could essentially be called upscale. You can easily expect to pay 1200-1500 euro a month for one of those, or over 400.000 to buy.
Bland as they may be, they usually are nice, comfortable places to live, and the construction quality is good enough to never need a whole roof renovation. Isolation will be badly needed though.
@@stephensaines7100 We were taught in school all houses in the Netherlands are copy paste due to stringent puritan city planning. Like, you can't just get an architect to design a nice house that looks a little different from your neighbours. I imagine it's a bit like those fancy neighbourhoods in the USA with white picket fences and draconic rules on if you are allowed to park your utility vehicle on your own driveway and stuff.
2:00 If you're on an ebike and it feels like there is a motor on your bike with every little bit of pressure you put on your pedals, that's because there is. 😂
Great video, love seeing the infrastructure! It's great how you can just point your bike in the direction you want to go and expect there to be a cycleway or quiet street. Also, the credit card thing in the Netherlands is quite common - unlike some places like Germany they have very widespread card acceptance... but only for Dutch Maestro cards. Catches me out every time
They were singing the Dutch version of Happy Birthday: Lang zal hij leven.
Which, given how much Dutch and English are alike, should be quite understandable: Lang zal ie leven = Long shall he live, In de gloria = In the glory, all in the same word order.
Instead of the German "Entschuldigung", you can just say "sorry". It's the same in English and Dutch. But some alternatives for the English phrase "excuse me" would be: "pardon"; "neem me niet kwalijk"; "excuses"/"excuus"/"excuseer me".
17:08 They were singing the Dutch version of happy birthday. :)
If you are not used to biking: stretching is very much needed. Also: the wind always being head wind is true. Imagine going 25 km/h into any direction, and the wind blowing in your back at 10km/h: You will experience 15 km/h head wind. Only if the wind blows harder then you are biking, ánd is in your back, will you experience little back-wind. But such wind speeds are pretty rare. So you will more or less always experience head wind.
aaahhh..finally someone who understands the perceived headwind situation!
I have experienced tailwinds occasionally when I go
@@cooledcannon If you ride pretty slow, your chance to experience back wind is greater: if the wind is 11km/h in your back, you will experience 1km/h backwind. The faster you go, the more rare it becomes: if you go 25 km/h, the wind has to be greater then 25 km/h ánd be in your back. The average wind speed is 2.2 (in land) to 20 (coast).
I mean.. that's not really how it works
Headwind isn't the same as air resistance/drag, and you will 100% feel the difference between 5km/h wind from behind vs from the front, even when going 30km/h
It's likely a combination of bias and wind doing weird things inside tighter streets:
You remember annoying headwind more than tailwind; wind from the side can often feel like headwind as well; and in tight streets, wind tends to follow the street, so the wind is more often straight on rather than from the side
Besides all of that, the prominent wind direction in the morning vs evening aren't often the same; where I lived, the morning wind was usually from the east, and the afternoon wind from the west. That's not to say the wind did a 180 every day, but some days it did
17:20 They're singing "Happy Birthday" in Dutch (literal translation "Long he shall live, Long he shall live, in all Glory...".
Have been to the Netherlands a few times with work. Beautiful country and lovely people. Nice to see some more of it here. I really hope we (the UK) do pull our fingers out and get more cycling infrastructure.
Dude, the story of my life in the Netherlands. I think I can count with one hand how many times I haven't found headwind. Much more enjoyable (note my sarcasm) when it's raining and the raindrops are hitting you in the face all the time.
Nice video.
The Netherlands always had the 'PIN' network for card transactions (reflected in the Dutch verb for 'paying using a card transaction' which is 'pinnen'), which was a specifically Dutch system. It was eventually converted to the Maestro network from Mastercard. These days Mastercard has deprecated Maesto as well, and Dutch banks finally are switching to the main Mastercard/Visa payment networks, so most terminals these days will finally also accept those as well, but we do still have some holdouts here and there, such as the place you got your lunch, that haven't gotten a new terminal (or software updates).
I am Dutch and live in Sweden and they use debit master card as our normal bank card, when I visit my mother land I use maistro card because they don't except master of visa and they think it's a credit card what is usual in the Netherlands if you have visa master card. Now Sweden is stopping maistro and I hope we can use Google pay.
@@Bushtuckerman71 The same happened in NL. Since last week I can only use Google pay when using my phone for contactless payments.
The "holdouts" are pretty much everywhere I find. It's mostly due to the cost of getting the machine replaced and business' often having a 5+ year contract for a machine. Paying 500+ euro as a business per machine kinda kills adoption especially if you've gotten one in the last year or 2.
It's happening very slowly, slower then they planned. Rabobank started to issue new Mastercard debit cards in may this year, so companies will be forced to switch (slowly over the next few years)
This is one my favourite videos you've ever made, traveling+ cycling+ chit chat? Amazing combo, also your recording and editing skills keep getting better and better, and that transition with the dron was flawless
Dron?
Nice trip! Here is one thing to know about road signs. The white signs with red writing is for bikes and the blue with white writing is mostly for cars
I like how you show the Netherlands how I know it because you bike between cities and thus through the many towns and villages.😊
Nice, you found a very good way to "discover" the Netherlands. And yes, there are plenty bicycle paths and very beautiful sceneries just around the corner. FTM, you should take a ride in province "Drenthe" or maybe even try the islands like Terschelling or Ameland. These are very different from the route you were cycling in this video where it is mostly polder (aka flat) and rectangular (lookup ruilverkaveling). But indeed nice you took the effort to record and edit this video.
15:10 "Wacht op groen." = "Wait for green."
17:08 "Lang zal die leven in de gloria." = "Long shall he live in glory." - The Dutch birthday song.
18:01 The Dutch beer might be white IPA with grapefruit, lychee, and melon: "Gladjanus" (Slick), by brewery De Eeuwige Jeugd (The Eternal Youth).
Utrecht pronunciation is on point. Unlike many you really get the 'echt'-part right. Not the most natural sound for English speakers.
I just used my German sounds 😅 sometimes useful
As far as I know, English does not have the 'ch'-sound from "echt" (or from the German pronunciation of "Kirche").
Source: Back in the day I got a speech synthesizer board for an Amstrad (Schneider) CPC464 and it didn't have the phoneme for this type of 'ch'. I think it had a Votrax SC-01 chip. (I remember I had to add a resistor because the expansion port bit used to signal 'phoneme output complete' was not on the correct level, meaning initially the output was quite garbled.)
@@hagen-p It has the sound for the ch in Kirche, but only if followed by /ju/ as in Huge, Human, Hue etc.
@@goonerbeagunner4life The ch sound in human is for German ears more like an "i-hu", and is not suitable for the pronunciation of words like "brechen", "Chemie" and (important) "möchten" (slightly darker/lower). You really need some almost-white-noise for these.
Just watched this as a dutch guy that lives in Hilversum and works as a public space designer for the same town! Love to cycle myself and very nice to see. Great to see how you enjoyed going past our town and also great to see someone make video's about the cycling routes around Amsterdam-Hilversum-Utrecht!
If you're ever back in the Netherlands ; The dutch waterline cycling route or the cycling route around the 'Gooimeer' are really good routes!
It's funny to see that however you come from the UK now, we can still see you are a American, just by the way you handle your knife and fork while you eat hahaha
An American
I'm Swedish, and I cut stuff up with the knife, then put the knife aside and eat with just the fork.
@@mytube001 - a knife
@@ericburbach632stfu no one likes you🥰
@@mytube001 Yeah that's different than how we do it But it's especially the holding of the fork But as long as you don;t chew with your mouth open I'm okay with that Hahahahaha
Oh how much we Dutch people love to watch people from other countrys cycle here😹 this was really fun. Thanks
16:21 "wow what a cute little town, unless it's a city and I offended an entire culture". Well, you decide for yourself: Utrecht 375,000 people, Urban 490,000 Metro 656,000 and part of the Randstad: 7 million people.
Bikes are such a fix and a cure for so many of todays problems. Love this video!
I found it funny how you called Hilversum a town where people in the Netherlands would generally call it a city, but proceeded to call the church there (as we'd call it) a cathedral. Different standards for sizes I guess 🙈
I rode from Düsseldorf to Amsterdam last year and it’s just such a fab experience riding in Holland. Feels so safe and less hectic than I’m used to.
ou really missed the worlds biggest bike-garage and the Daphne-Schippers-bridge. Two remarkable pieaces of Utrechts great cycling-infrastructure.
Always fun to recognise my home in a foreigner’s TH-cam video. I live right by that gezondheidscentrum. There are indeed some bumpy bike paths in Utrecht, because of the trees roots. The bike path by the park at around 15:30 has been recently fixed, but the tree roots will still push the road up eventually. Having cycled that road daily for a few years I know exactly where to stand up on my pedals so I don’t feel the bumps. Also, Utrecht is indeed a city. “Wacht op groen” means “wait for green”. I hope your knee healed quickly.
17:19 Literally they are singing:
Long may he live
Long may he live
Long may he live in the gloria (latin word)
It is followed by hiphip hurray multiple times.
lil' fun fact. Dutch bicycle lanes have been red for a really long time. Noone really knew what the reason behind it was. It was theorized that the red colour would make the best distinction between the bicyicle lane and the road. Then some journalists found the ex-minister who green-lid the decision of using the red colour, who at that point had retired multiple decades ago. They asked him why the bicycle lanes where red in the Netherlands and he answered: "well, it was the cheapest colour they offered"
12:00 when cycling you don't need to go around the roundabout counterclockwise necessarily. Both clockwise and counterclockwise are allowed.
About the always having headwind when cycling. Welcome to the Netherlands, where the wind specifically blows in the opposite direction of where you're going.
There is a caveat to your comment. What you say is only correct if there is a cycle path with two-way traffic. If this is a one-way cycle path, you must follow the indicated direction of travel.
I know this is a month late but I want to thank you for this video. I hadn't been using it for over a year. I have now recently got back into cycling and this video was very helpful and helped me gain my confidence on it again
Your Utrecht pronunciation is good.
For a foreigner absolutely.
It's actually how someone from the south part of the Netherlands would pronounce it.
@@michel_dutch When a bit under influence
@michel_dutch Not exactly exactly, but he is genuinely realy close. Usually I'm quite sceptic with foreigners pronunciation, especially Americans, but he is genuinely good at it.
SO good.
The one thing i take for granted in my country is how much independence I had in my youth because of cycle infrastructure and culture. Not being car dependent is great. When I started traveling without my drivers license I had a culture shock.
This popped onto my homepage, and it looked like fun. Then at 13:33 I was like "Wait, I recognise this" (I live in Utrecht), and then 13:40 he passed by my district, and I was going insane. Great video!
Thanks :)
A very whimsical journey. Thanks for bringing us along.
the singers were singing "long will he live" (does not translate great...) which is the most popular birthday song in the country. also "wacht op groen" simply means "wait for green"
Great to see it from the cycling point of view. We drove to Eindhoven this summer and The Netherlands is lovely.
Glad you enjoyed it! The red road in Utrecht is a Fietsstraat, which basically means the cyclists rule over here - cars are allowed but submissive. And those people were singing a birthday song. 🎵
As someone born and grew up in Hilversum, lived in Amsterdam, thinks Utrecht is a great city and no longer lives in the Netherlands I was able to pick apart your route at several places. Fun video.
Riedfelt-Collage: Gerrit Riedfelt was the architect who designed one of the most iconic houses of the early 20th centuries. The Riedfelt-Schröder-Haus in Utrecht. Well worth a visit.
Rietveld, Riedfelt-Schröder-Huis
I hope your knee feels better. Thanks for the tour. Yes, getting outside Amsterdam is a much better way to get a feel for what Nederland is really like. Utrecht is a really wonderful city. Tot sins.
Next time take the overnight ferry back to the UK. Via Hoek van Holland Harwich. Much more relaxing than flying.
Yes, you can take the metro to right next to the ferry terminal in Hoek van Holland (used to be a railway line), and Harwich International ferry terminal has a trainstation downstairs with good connections to London. You can get a footpassenger / Greater Anglia train ticket as well, that's probably cheaper than buying a train ticket from Harwich Int. to London.
@@weerwolfproductions I did that for 2.5 years every 3 weeks. Only I had to use the rail replacement service because conversation from the train to the metro service between Schiedam and Hoek van Holland was still going on. I am originally from Schiedam but left in 1994.
the Dutch leg used to have an included train ticket as well, Dutch flyer. But that no longer exists and I didn't need it because of the business train card I had. Pre-booked meals in the a la carte restaurant used to be nice, but I saw that changed. The Stena plus lounge is nice.
You can try an authentic Dutch Chinese- Indonesian restaurant in Hook van Holland if you like. It serves not too bad food. There is a sushi restaurant in the old train station, I never tried that.
@@hans_kruse Oh yes the bus! I remember that as well. I didn't go as often as you, only once a year, but first couple of years it was still the train, then a few years the bus from Schiedam. Last time I went I could take the metro from Rotterdam Alexander (came off the train there) straight to Hoek van Holland. Was lovely after having to take the bus.
The bump at 17:02 marks the outer perimeter of the Roman settlement from 2000 years ago. There’s an underground museum at the Dom square about the history with really cool excavations.
In The Netherlands credit cards are not widely accepted, only in certain tourist areas and in most hotels. A debit card is the real way to pay here. By the way, that is in most European countries the way to pay. And in Germany, whenever you decide to go there, use cash. Although debet cards are common there, a lot of shops, restaurants and bars don't acceot them. The same for Austria, but more in the smaller villages. So, now you are warned. But just get a debet card, that will be fine!
It depends on the country, the Netherlands has been averse to credit cards the most in my experience, other countries less so. They are also getting more common since both Visa and Mastercard are phasing out their separate debit card brands (Maestro and VPay), and are integrating them in the same network as their credit card. Since earlier this year, my 2 Maestro cards have been converted to a Visa Debit and a Mastercard Debit card, respectively. France has been used to credit cards as well, their Carte Bleue has been folded into Visa for years now. Germany is not averse to credit cards, but to all cards, if they take cards, credit cards are generally accepted as well in my experience, but yes, a lot of shops don't accept cards at all.
I thought Germany was dragged into the 21st century with card and contactless payments during Covid? It's still super cash based? Here in the UK it's rare to find anywhere that doesn't take card/contactless, and it's ever more common that places don't accept cash at all especially in the cities. The same is true in Sweden whenever I've visited. I've been a bunch of times but still never actually seen Swedish cash in person lol. None of my friends even have any when I've been there, they just use their cards or Apple Pay etc.
@@TalesOfWar they were, and went right back after Covid was mostly over. I'm exaggerating a bit, there's still more card acceptance than before Covid, but less than during the height of Covid.
I'm Belgian, we are somewhere in between the Dutch and the Germans when it comes to cash or electronic payments, but I always carry some cash with me, just in case.
Nah, I can pay at my local Jumbo with Amex. In Bolsward
@@TalesOfWar Yeah, I'm Swedish and I hate cash. Luckily, I never have to use cash these days, and I don't have any on me at any time. I think I last paid anything with cash was in 2015 or 2016, and even then that was just to get rid of some old banknotes that were about to stop being legal tender. I've almost exclusively paid with cards since the mid 00s.
When I lived in Utrecht I did this journey once. I went the "boring" route mostly following the Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal. I also did it on an ebike and it took about 2 hours each way, apart from an extra 30 minutes getting lost in Maarssen!
17:53 The name of the beer Eeuwige Jeugd means Eternal Youth 🙂
For bike hire touristing it can be handy to carry a piece of string with a knot at your usual saddle height - easy adjusting bike to bike and might help keep your knees happier.
15:02 prinsenhof used to be a community center instead of a commercial medical thing - I remember getting a visit from Sinterklaas there in the early 80s.
NIce ride! My sister rode from Amsterdam (normal bike) to Rotterdam "just because it is possible". It took her 8 hours and she was as happy as can be.
Great video! I always say to people it's easy to visualise dutch cycle infrastructure in the context of inner city usually from visiting Amsterdam, but to see it's real transformative effect you need to get out into the countryside and find how it still connects every place and community and route you could want, the entire country is door to door by bike if you want it. Also really struggling to see the logic of your route, lol. The most direct way to utrecht is just stick to the Rijnkanaal and a good add on is to go via Muiden, the river vecht, and Nigtevecht so you can use the new cycle bridge Liniebrug and Bruekelen (Brooklyn names sake) and a bunch of pretty villages either side of the canal. Next time go north and check out places like Zaanse Schans, Edam, Marken, Hoorn. Also next time you should check out indoor cycle parking (fietsenstalling) there's the world's biggest at utrecht, and new underwater ones at Amsterdam centraal
They sang the Dutch version of Happy Birthday, they sang 'lang zal hij/zij leven'. Hij/Zij is He/Her.
The first shot: omg, that's Hilversum, my hometown.
Not the most efficient or even beautiful route through Hilversum though. But at least he got to see the Vitus kerk.
Many people mentioned to adjust the height of the seatpost to avoid knees hurting.
It also helps to move the saddle a bit back or forth so you knees are straight above your toes when the cranck is horizontal.
Perhaps it's interesting to calculate what the range is of a non-e-bike. How many km can you make on a full belly of frikandelbroodjes and stroopwafels.
Depending on your training level: plenty.
I've done 100km from Hilversum to Dongen plenty of times without any fuel stops.
about 40km for a total beginner or someone with a poor condition. Roughly 50 to 60km if you're only used to short distances. Over 100km if you're used to cycling long distances on an almost daily basis.
Source: my yearly cycling trips with my dad. I fall under the 50 to 60 km category.
That's a more in depth answer.
Thing is, neither frikandellenbroodjes nor stroopwafels are easily/quickly digested, not while exercising hard unless you trained your metabolic system to do so. Which means you are pretty much left with the "normal" energy reserves you had to start with for the duration of the ride.
You'll be able to ride about three to five hours (depending on your training level and the effort it takes to keep whatever pace you set) before you'll run out of energy.
Multiply your average speed by those hours and you've got your distance.
Wacht op groen, means wait for the light to turn green. Then you can go.
Great video! I once thought about cycling from Amsterdam to Haarlem, never got around to it and then totally forgot so this is a nice reminder (for when the weather gets good again) 😅
Yay....bonus vlog on Saturday ❤
15:08 I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but "wacht op groen" directly translated is "wait for green" it's basically telling you to wait for the light to change
edit: also at 17:10, they're singing a dutch version of happy birthday
For those interested.... Lennox, Kerkbrink 2, 1211 BX Hilversum.
Thats definately worth getting of your bike or out of your car for. Great food and top notch service!!
I wonder if Evan couldn't just have paid with a British debit card (but they must have checked, so maybe he doesn't have one?)
The sandwich looked awesome!
Thank you for your positive attitude. I love your video.
I also noticed the cadence (rpm) was quite low, placement of feet on the pedals was incorrect and the catwalk sway of the hips indicated the saddle was not at the right height although that could be to do with the shape of the seat itself. All together, a recipe for injury - both real joint and tendon damage, and muscle pain. Seat height should be set so that with the balls of your feet on the peddle your leg should be just slightly bent at the knee, certainly no more than the kink between the top and the bottom of this capital letter "Y", (ignoring one of the arms the Y) and perhaps a little less, even.
A few years ago my wife and I took a 5 day bike and barge trip from Amsterdam to Maastricht. Our tour cycled in a long line thru Utrecht through the crowds of cylists at rush hour, quite the experience
They sang the Dutch version of "Lang soll er leben"/"Hoch soll er leben" (Long shall he live), followed by something I didn't understand either.
They were singing: “in de Gloria”. Doesn’t really carry any meaning anymore. Would be translated as: long shall he live in glory. Either being: in the glory of god; or: with honour, depending on who sings it.
“I feel like it’s just been headwind the entire way”.
Congratulations. You are now offficially Dutch!
Instead of enschuldigung, you can just stay in English. ''Sorry'' and ''Pardon'' are words we also use in dutch - just slightly differently pronounced.
I once had the same surprise when I ordered a sandwich in the Netherlands. While the locals opted for a simple piece of cake, I made my first impression by ending up with a less casual meal - complete with a knife, fork, and the works. It tasted good, though.
Yes, Visa is more accepted than AmEx. If a CC is accepted at all. Normal bank debit cards are fine. contactless works.
Apparently debit system of Dutch banks is planned to move to visa/mastercard, so that will make things easier for creditcards as well. AmEx however is just not used at most places in europe.
The fact that his Mastercard got declined is worrying as the old Maestro cards are no longer being issued and replaced with Mastercard debit in many EU countries including the Netherlands.
AmEx would be a different story, that has always been a lesser used card in Europe.
@@Hans-gb4mv I got a MasterCard betaalpas (debit) from Rabobank a couple of months ago. It works everywhere, same as the previous Maestro. No issues at all.
He probably tried to pay with a MasterCard credit card.
Mastercard is also not accepted in the AH (biggest supermarket in NL), or at least last year it wasn't. NL is a maestro country...
Visa/MC acceptance varies in that Amsterdam has better acceptance than the rest of the country. History behind it is that our old card payment system was very very affordable and worked with a fixed per-transaction fee instead of a percentage. When this all got wrapped up into the Maestro brand, the pricing remained. Now that we’re migrating to mastercard and visa debit cards, the pricing for those transactions will also be a fixed fee instead of a percentage. Basically we’re saving ourselves from paying a 1-2% tax on everything, but it’s cost us in terms of international card acceptance over the past decades.
yknow, I've never thought about the fact that we effectively have a bike path next to every single major road.
Its not a highway, its an intercity road. Highways have traffic in both ways separated from each other, you are allowed to drive there at maximum allowed speed (120 or 100 km/h), and they have on and off ramps, and certainly no bike path. Credit cards are a nuisance, they have to call in to check if its a real creditcard, and if it has money on it, and pay a fee. Its not worth the hassle. Most people pay with their bank-card, you can hook that up to your phone, so you can pay with your phone, or get some money from the ATM with the card and pay with that, or use a phone app that you can hook onto it ('tikkie' for example), and send a pay request via that, or the good old 'bank transfer', but thats also a bit of a hassle, and it takes a while to complete (one day or more if you are from outside Netherlands), its only instantaneously if you both have the very same bank. But if they see you make the transfer, they will be good. Its verrrry rare though.
In the US, the word ‘highway’ doesn’t exclusively refer to a grade-separated motorway with at least two lanes per direction, a median barrier, and a hard shoulder-or whatever the exact definition is for a dutch ‘autosnelweg’. Many of our regional N-roads-even if they have just a single carriageway and no physical median barrier-would be called highways as well in the US (and some other English speaking countries). So highway is not really equivalent to ‘autosnelweg’.
@@JulesStoop Reason why I usually to refer to the British motorways as even US-residents usually understand I'm talking about grade-seperated multi-lane, high-speed roads ;)
This also tripped me up at some point because the terminology does not match one-to-one but roughly it goes "highway"="autoweg" and "freeway"="(auto)snelweg". It is called a freeway because the traffic is not obstructed by crossings or traffic lights like the snelweg. It becomes a bit more confusing because In the US you may see a lot of divided roads which are not freeways. These do exist in the Netherlands, for instance the Kennedylaan in Eindhoven but are kind of rare here. At the same time the us does not really have the difference between "autoweg" and "provinciale weg" using the term highway for both.
British terminology is even more different and I don't know it.
@@SenorZorros Yeah me too. I have never remembered when something actually is a carriageway or not, which is why I also don't know when something is actually a dual carriageway. Of course, I know that the dual refers to the number of lanes for every direction, but then it comes back to the 'when is it a carriageway or not' question ;)
@@SenorZorros And some of us Americans don't use the term freeway at all. I'd use interstate and highway, but never freeway. A highway will have interruptions no matter the size and the interstate never will.
Freeway is a very west coast thing.
As a lot of other people who do live in Amsterdam probably already commented: a lot of people who do live in Amsterdam would really love for people to visit places other than Amsterdam, too!
In dutch you say your verontschuldigingen ( excuses) like this: sorry, pardon, het spijt me. Dank je ( thank ye ) Not "danke", that is German.
To add some nuance: Sorry is sorry, “pardon” is “excuse me”, and “het spijt me” is a more extreme sorry and not really necessary on a daily basis (unless you make some really significant mistakes).
I also think you should add that dank je is pronounced just like danke but with a j inbetween, so je is pronounced almost like the "je" in adjective.
Now you got me here dreaming at 4am of having nice bike infrastructure like this in Canada
You probably like the bicycle parking at the Utrecht railway station. search some footage on TH-cam. Utrecht is actually the best cycling city in the world.
I went! Got lost in there haha
Haha, there's a head wind so often in the Netherlands. Even when you do a round trip and expect to have the wind in your back once you turn around, the wind has turned. Lovely video! I'm excited for the biking vacation in Noord-Brabant a week from now.
The dutch wind always seems to be a headwind when you are on a bike😂😢
And then when you go back it for some reason changed and you have a headwind again.
Always - and in both directions
When you are pedaling 16.1 km/h (10 miles/hour) in air standing still then that speed is your experienced headwind. Improve your drag coefficient and you experience less.
That said, commuting on race bike solo with an average of 36 km/h, my experience, near the North Sea coast, was that the dominant wind in the morning was (from) SW and in the evening NW. Headwind all day, plus the effect of my own speed. Drag increases exponentially with speed, by the way.
In a lorry's (AKA truck) slipstream on the provincial road's tarmac off the paved bike path I could easily do 70 km/h with zero drag.
Way back when a young man.
There we go again; the reason for this perceived headwind is simple: when there is hardly any wind at all 'windstil' you create your own headwind while cycling...
Often wind coming from the side is also perceived as headwind.
@borchen0 windstill in holland that's hilarious.