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As far as I know those small windmills were not made to make a tiny amount of coco, but were made to pump water out of the polder. My father has pictures of my childhood home in the early 20th century with one next to it. When I was living there it was already replaced by an electric "gemaal" a few 100 meters down the road though.
Windmills where used for many purposes, from pumping water to sawing planks for shipbuilding and construction ("zaagmolens") to foodprocessing (stamping grains, etc.). Basically they where the pre-fossil-fuel method of producing energy. Energy that could then be applied to many processes.
Zuiderzee museum is alles wat de Zaanse schans niet is: mooi, leuk en niet je local touristtrap . Zaanse Schans=1 stroopwafel, Zuiderzeemuseum 5 stroopwafels 😊
@@buncharted If you are planning that trip; some advise... It's called the 'Historische Driehoek'. The three cities called Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Medemblik. There is a LOT to see and do! Take your time and book a B&B in Hoorn or Enkhuizen. 1. Steam engine from Hoorn to Enkhuizen 2. Zuiderzee Museum (plan a whole day, take the ferry. It's the old ferry that used to go to Terschelling) 3. Steam engine museum, old busses, the museums in all cities, I liked Kasteel Radboud in Medemblik.
So much to comment here! I lived the first 10 years of my life in Zaandam. No where near the Zaanse Schans but in one of the first immigrant neighborhoods around Amsterdam. They built De Zaanse Schans for a reason there; Along the river Zaan there was the first "Industrial zone" of Europe. The windmills kept the waterlevels in balance but soon people found they also could provide a grinding, hammering, oil squizing and even sawing at the end. My father worked at a paint factory that originated from the 1600's as pigment was produced chemically and also imported via Amsterdam harbour and hammered to fine powder and mixed with plant oils extracted also by windmills. The chocolaty smell you noticed Michelle was from the Verkade factory which is in the Zaan area. Duyvis started production here, Honig started here as did Verkade. Lassie rice ook Zaans :-)
A little correction: The chocolaty smell was not from Verkade. Next to the trainstation is a big cacao factory, and around the Zaan too. Verkade is way to far to smell, and besides that.. they don't produce that much cookies anymore at the original factory
@@bergvanlicht i wanted to say that too. But that wasn't the point 😅 so i skipped that whole sentence. Almost all the chocolaty stuff is produced elsewhere indeed
This was great fun... I live close by. It was my playground when it was built. Some of the houses came from a street in the village where I live. I walked through the street to school. I have ancestry that developed the process of hulling barley with a windmill. I think you missed the production processes in the windmills. The windmills and houses are originals but relocated to Zaanse Schans. The locations where the windmills stand today were originally occupied by other windmills that caught fire or were demolished. I love the way you liked the windmill panorama painting. Frans Mars and my grandmother were cousins, so I share some ancestry with him. I met him a couple of times. He was also one of the founders of De Zaansche Molen society for preservation of windmills. I have some work of him too. I would have loved to guide you a bit there, maybe next time.
What's really fun about the Zaanse Schans is that people from the area around it also just go there when they want a little outing not too far from home when it's nice out. Seriously, I'm positively certain that there are Zaankanters whose favorite Pancake Place is (the?) one on the Zaanse Schans. Also, the village itself is just "open", no entree-fee or ticket required, so if you're in the neighbourhood, you can just go there if you like to get chalk or cheese, a stroopwafel or oldschool candy.
True that! Almost every Wednesday I'll take my toddler with me on a bakfiets ride: first stop the Wormerveer market. And then a "Zaanse Schans-loop" back to home! My 15 months old daughter loves the windmills!
Nice that you liked it. I was born and raised there. The small windmill is a "Schelpenmolen" - it crushed sea shells into smaller pieces that were used on roads.
We visited Kinderdijk last week and we loved it so much more than we expected to. Learned so much about the windmills and got to tour one which was incredibly impressive.
I loved this video! I'm from De Zaanstreek. Our history is very fun to know about! Thanks for checking out a bit of it 🙂 Family of me even lived in the house right in front of Mosterdmolen De Huisman, next to the antique museum. Which was quite interesting, because of all the tourists. Oh and.. yeah, the Duivekater needed some butter. Duivekater is top tier 😁
het eerste kleine molentje is een poldermolen. bedoeld om delen van de polder droog te malen. aan de overkant van de Zaan is het Czaar Peterhuisje. niet veel te zien maar historisch zeer belangrijk.
The little windmills are ä "Weidemolen". They were placed in the meadows as small watermills, to pump water out of the ditches. My mother-in-law, lived on the other side of the Zaan. So we visited the Zaanse Schans often. But we still have to visit the Zaanse Molenhouse. You can see a lot of small "Openluchtmuseums". In my neighbourhood even 4, Nijbeets (how the peatworkers lived), Damwoude, Ezinge and Orvelte. All worth visiting.
Thank you for reminding me of the existence of duivekater. I'm gonna have to try to make it myself sometime. You were right that you should eat it with some butter on top. Also it's said that it tastes better when it's at least a day old.
@@rafierafie8834 we had duivekater every year at pentacostal day. But it looked a bit different as far as I remember: ours were a braided sweet bread. (?)
Next time visit Zaandam as well, obviously the famous hotel with the zaanse huisjes next to the train station. An extreme toerist hotspot these days. You can visit the old Verkade factory which now houses our library, a school for backers (where you can buy and eat the things the students have made), plus a restaurant next to the zaan. And it is opposite the still working Verkade factory where they make Sultana. And visit the Monet sites including the blue house which is also near the Tsar Peter museum. In the Monet atelier you can find replicas of all his paintings of Zaandam.
Weet je wat zo leuk is Alex en Michelle aan jullie videos, natuurlijk jullie twee 😁, maar al die leuke anekdotes van m'n landgenoten over plekken in Nederland die ik ken en ook onbekend zijn voor me. Thanks for another good one guys! 😃🌷
One of your best videos. So natural. love you guys. Van harte welkom in Nederland. People like you we can't have enough. Goed gedaan Alex, goed gedaan Michelle.
Well, it has been said before, but the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen is absolotely worth visiting! It tells you all about living at/with the Zuiderzee, shows a lot of history in a pleasant way. And Enkhuizen itself is also a very nice place to visit. So, let's go!
Glad you visited this place. I'm born and raised in Zaandam and still living in the area. I understand Michelle loves the Duyvis nuts or in Dutch: "De Duyvis borrelnootjes." Fun fact: If you look over Michelle left shoulder (or on the right site of the screen) @15:52 you can see axwonan wearing a blue top. Behind this wonan you'll see a tall and slim chimney. That's the modern Duyvis factory producing the borrelnootjes 😄 . I don't know if you can book a facory tour. Not only the industry in Zaandam but the industry in the whole area called "De Zaanstreek" is mostley food related. The industry used to produce food and products for producing food like starch, cacao and machines for food production. When I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's the city council used the slogan "De provisiekast van Nederland" meaning "The larder fot the Netherlands" for city marketing. Last but not least.... ; At the Zaanse Schans tickets are being sold for €10,- . You don't have to buy it. Acces to the Zaanse Schans is free, the €10,- ticket is for accessing all the windmills. The Zaanse Schans is open 24/7, only the windmills and some other things like the historic Albert Heijn store is opened between 10am and 5pm.
I live across the river (de Zaan) from the Zaanse Schans. It's small but beautiful (haha what she said). Also the surrounding villages can be worth a visit, like the Zaanbocht in Wormerveer. 2:00 Yes, there's still two active cacao factories :) most foreign people dislike the smell. 3:10 A lot of "older" people I know have had a summer job at the Verkade factory. 6:38 My grandfather built a miniature windmill for de kinderboerderij (petting zoo) in Rooswijk (basicly new Zaandijk) 7:40 Most young people start their career as either a cashier or stock clerk in the Netherlands at Albert Heijn (or other supermarkets) :D 8:05 Me and my dad live in a replica (less than 50 years old) of one of these houses from the Zaanse schans. It's called the Domineestuin. It gets very warm in the summer though 🥵🥵 11:00 Don't come in December. Well, maybe if there's snow and ice 😂😂 13:50 Can't beat Zaanse Mosterd (and Zaanse Mayo) 14:34 Got a Whiskey tasting session planned here in November 😊😊 Guys, if you want to go back, take a look at the Voetveer Zaandijk (ferry) next time. It takes you directly from the Zaanse Schans to old Zaandijk, which is also beautiful and has some nice history and eating/drinking opportunity's on the Lagedijk. Glad you enjoyed Zaandijk :)
Not only foreigners dislike the cocoa scent. I grew up 1 km from the Droste factory in Haarlem. When the wind was south east it was that nauseous scent that came into your nose. Luckily the wind was mostly south west. I believe the Droste factory has moved to Vaassen, so Haarlem is a bit more livable now.
Yeah I grew up with it too and to me it definitely doesn't smell like good cocoa, probably because it is the burning and processing smell: there's a sourness to it and reminds me of burnt rubber.@ronaldderooij1774
Yes, I do get your point! :-) However, the Netherlands had begun being cultivated at least a thousand years before the Flevo lake had become the Zuiderzee. Besides, the Zuiderzeemuseum "freezes" life at the closing of the Afsluitdijk (eliminating the tide, having the salt water grow fresh). - To some extent, the Zuiderzeemuseum shares a "look and feel" [matter of opinion] with the recreated village in the Veenpark near Emmen. And with parts of the Nationaal Openluchtmuseum at Arnhem, obviously. Note to self: I should revisit the Archeon at Alphen aan den Rijn.
Born and raised in the Zaanregion.. My grandmother was a Verkade meisje, I lived next to the Zaan for years and on my first weddingday we took pictures on the Zaanse Schans.. that was fun walking in your wedding dress and loads of tourists taking pictures of me instead of the windmills 😂 It was as crowded then as in your video.. (30 years ago)
Another tip: there is a path trough the polder, it starts just after all the historic buildings and ends behind the observation tower. It is a nice short walk away from the tourists though fields and bridges, can be a bit wet.
M: "Good luck making inappropriate jokes today." A: "I do love a challenge." We can sense the pain it took to visit such a touristy area, but the sheer duty to buncharted2 obviously ruled the day. 😀 Your devotion to see it all, and do it all is to be respected. Cheers on the Patreon. It's actually a guilt-relief to be able to reimburse you for the vast amount of entertaining content you guys create. Also, nice to flip the script and see the silver lining of the good side to Zaanse Schans... as usual even the most touristy things in NL still have a core value that can't be denied.
I really enjoy watching your videos, but this one in particular. I went to the highschool next to the Zaans Museum and as a teenager I cycled every weekday across the Zaanse Schans. The parents of a highschool friend still live in one of the houses there. I can walk there from our current place in 25 minutes or so and when visiting my mom in the next neighbourhood I often stand in traffic from people wanting to park at the Zaanse Schans. It is just brilliant seeing you visit the place and I did not know the food is that good.
Je kan naar Marken en moei klein schiereiland ( sinds 1957 ) en dorp bij de Markermeer , in de beurd is ook Volendam en Monnickendam die ook de bezichting waard zijn. Wat verder weg er van is Hoorn zeker ook en bezichting waard.
nice overview! I took my parents on a rainy November as part of a full-day trip including Edam and Volendam, and took a friend there in October with far better weather and we even entered one of the windmills where they cut logs. great spot to take friends and family :)
Weather was amazing on your day! I will be visiting late August. Its my 12th visit to the NL but always find something new to do! We are coming to a WWE wrestling show in Rotterdam. I have to squeeze in Zaanse Schans! Thank you for your videos!
Nice vlog, but I get the feeling it was too busy ;) And then the tip is to also visit the open-air museum in Enkhuizen, because that is the most beautiful. More beautiful than Arnhem. It may be less busy there after the summer holidays, sometime in September. And Enkhuizen itself is also beautiful.
my grandma used to live closeby and my parents are from the region. I used to go almost every year growing up, we just biked from my grandma's house. I was always shocked by the amount of (mostly) Asian tourists. for me it's quite a 'normal' place, but I can understand from the point of few of especially foreigners that it's an interesting place to visit.
Next time, zuiderzeemuseum? Try to go when there are schippers taking people out on their platbodem boats. Also the Ellert en Brammert museum and Orvelte the monument village in Drenthe which also has a couple of very interresting tiny museums are really good.
We were there in April of 2023 and it wasn’t that busy. We were on a bus tour and were a bit rushed so we didn’t get to see very much. I guess we just have to come back!
I live close by. There is only one mustard mill(actually a spice mill), called the Huisman. Awesome mustard! From wikipedia: De Huisman (The Houseman), a mustardmill De Gekroonde Poelenburg (The Crowned Poelenburg), a sawmill De Kat (The Cat), a dyemill Het Jonge Schaap (The Young Sheep), a sawmill De Os (The Ox), an oilmill De Zoeker (The Seeker), an oilmill Het Klaverblad (The Cloverleaf), a sawmill De Bonte Hen (The Spotted Hen), an oilmill
Compliments for the editing and explanation, nice background music, and clear explanations of everything you saw. Oh, and Alex, you're a dirty old man 😆
Goede video weer! Jammer dat het zo druk was, ik ben er eens in april geweest op een doordeweekse dag, dat was prima te doen. Zijn jullie weleens in het Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen geweest? Dat is ook een erg mooi openluchtmuseum. Het Veenpark in Barger-Compascuum is ook erg interessant en ook een openluchtmuseum.
I visited Zaanse Schans in early February and it was still pretty busy. People would stop on the narrow raised paths to get their selfies in every 10 feet, blocking everyone. It felt very touristy to me and I doubt I would go back. I do want to go to kinderdijk on my next trip though.
When you go back, make sure to go inside the windmills! The extra fee is worth it and fascinating to see how the different windmills work and what they do.
I passed by Zaanse Schans om my way home from a customer nearby when it was around 30 deg outside and loads of tourists walking around. I felt sorry for em because of the weather.
And to think he only spend 1 night in Zaandam 😂 he stayed in the little house that is now called the Tsar Peter house.. but he was there only one night as a guest hahaha
Nice video from where i come originally near from. But i think the openlucht Museum in Arnhem is more nice. Also Burgers Zoo is besides that place🥰 Take care friends🤗
you got the whole year! why go in high season?! :D the Zaanse schans itself is fun enough imo.. at least I had fun walking around there for a few hrs, was not too bad for a free trip ;)
If you love movies in a an old style theater got to Cinerama in Rotterdam. Mostly the same movies from Pathe but the audices is different like the all atmosphere. I love it.
de uitspraak van Verkade is Verkade niet Verkada , pas na 5 keer begreep ik waar het over ging. (Nooit in de buurt van Zaanse schans geweest) Duyvis verstond ik wel. Molen heeft de klemtoon (stress) op MO, dus MO-len.
It’s your life, it’s your video, it’s freedom. Just make as many inappropriate jokes as you’d like. You stay you! Don’t change the way you make videos because you think you will get more likes and subscribers. I like that the videos are authentic. I’ve been to Zaanse Schans a couple months ago. I have seen it. I have seen many other videos of people visiting the same thing. I’m not interested in Zaanse Schans at all. I’m interested in your adventures and the way you experience them.
Me, I have repeatedly found comments disappeared after being visible. - The other month, someone else couldn't find the comment that I had replied to. As I remember it, the other's comment did not contain a link, bad language or whatever. (I'm not being channel-specific.)
Zaanse Schans does not close. It's a public road. Only the shops, windmills etc. have opening hours. Also, you do not have to pay an entrance fee. It's gratis (very Dutch).
Oops 2nd comment: Double Dutch is surprise surprise : Founded by 2 Dutch girls! Living in almost walking distance where I live (Belgium). Having the company HQ in London.
I don't like windmills, but the invention of the saw mill has changed the course of world history, allowing the Dutch Republic to build ships 30 times faster and, in combination with modern finance and early central banking, dominate the trade in Europe. The Dutch had more merchant ships than the rest of Europe combined and it took the British Empire until around 1800 to take over as the world's biggest trader. Without getting filthy rich that way, the Dutch Republic would have been crushed by the superpowers Spain and later France and Britain, those two even attacking togehter and together with German states.
De Zaanse schans is not a museum . People are living there. It’s Dutch Heritage. De open lucht museum in Arnhem , is a big open air museum .The houses are real , brought from all over the country and built there again. In Enkhuizen in Noord-Holland there is also a very nice open air museum . You can reach it by boat and train, in both museums you can see how the Dutch lived in the past,
i understand that people live at zaanse schans (and not at the arnhem openlucht museum), but they’re real, historic zaan homes and many were relocated there - no?
@@buncharted The difference between the Zaanse Schans and the museums in Arnhem and Enhuizen is that the Zaanse Schans is an existing village, where people lived since 1961-1963, that in contrast to the museums in Arnhem and Enkhuizen. The houses that have been rebuilt in Arnhem and Enkhuizen are also original houses that come from all over the Netherlands, including the Zaanstreek.The houses and some of the windmill’s on the Zaanse Schans came also from the Zaanstreek , but the big difference remains that this is sinds the beginning an existing village and the museums in Arnhem and Enkhuizen are not. These are structured as museums where visitors can see how the Dutch used to live. The Zaanse schans was set up as a hamlet / buurtschap , Reason : It was very important to preserve the wooden Zaanse houses and windmills and protect them from decay, to protect our cultural heritage, habitation was a important requirement . From the beginning it was not set up as a museum, unlike our open-air museums. By the way, would you like to visit a very very nice open-air museum in Belgium? It’s in Bokrijk. It’s between Genk and Hasselt. You can find info from it on internet. Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk , with their own station a 5-minute walk away they are also easily accessible by train.
ik weet niet of jullie er al geweest zijn maar wat dacht je van Madurodam in Den Haag en doe dan een wedstijd hoeveel gebouwen jullie al gezien hebben bij jullie reizen door ons land het is ook een open lucht museum (attractie) met een hoop toeristen , en nog iets wat ik altijd raar vind en misschien jullie ook als toeristen originele Hollandse waren proberen bijvoorbeeld de stroopwafel nemen ze altijd andere troep erop ( M&M's , Nutela , kruimels ) terwijl ze gewoon naturel het lekkerste zijn (vind ik) weer met veel plezier naar de video gekeken bedankt en op naar de volgende THANKS GUYS ................
dat komt niet door de toeristen , maar door de verkopers die zo meer proberen te verdienen maar ik ben het met je eens, bij vrijwel ALLES zijn de originele smaken het beste. vanille vla, paprika chips, aardbeien yoghurt, hazelnootpasta. pleurt een end op met je kaneelsuiker pringles of wasabi chocola.......
we went to madurodam in our first den haag video last year and we loved it! it would be interesting to return at some point and see how many of the buildings we’ve seen now. we’ve seen a lot more of the netherlands since then!
Zaanse Schans was never intended to be for tourists.. It was meant to preserve the wooden buildings and windmills. The first 15-20 years there were no tourists there, but a tour operator in Amsterdam organized tours to Edam-Volendam-Marken and he was the one that got the idea to bring the tourists to Zaanse Schans too. Most of the (entrance/toilet) fees go to the preservation of the buildings.
@@buncharted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen Een hunebed of dolmen is een megalithische (Oudgrieks: μέγας megas: groot, λίθος lithos: steen) grafkamer uit het neolithicum (4000-3000 v.Chr.) die bestaat uit ten minste drie, maar vaak (veel) meer staande draagstenen, overdekt door een of meer dekstenen. Hunebedden zijn volgens de gangbare theorie resten van prehistorische grafkamers. Ze zijn echter niet te beschouwen als graven in de gewone betekenis, maar eerder als knekelhuizen. Het is niet met zekerheid te zeggen dat grafsignalisatie de oorspronkelijke functie van al deze bouwwerken is geweest. Er zijn dolmens waarvan vermoed wordt dat ze enkel als heiligdom dienstdeden. In Nederland worden ze vooral gevonden in Drenthe, veelal op de Hondsrug. Ze zijn gebouwd tussen 3350 en 3050 v.Chr.,[1] in de meest westelijke uitloper van het territorium van de trechterbekercultuur. In totaal zijn er daar 52 hunebedden bewaard gebleven in Nederland. In Duitsland en Denemarken zijn er nog honderden te vinde And English it fund in the east part of the Netherlands: A dolmen (/ˈdɒlmɛn/) or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound). Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance.[1] In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone "skeleton".
Zaanse Schans is a lttle village were people live. So when you look into the home there actually real poeple live and have their pivacy before and after the tourists leave !
I live right next to it ,Purmerend, but never visit it. I have bin canoeing there. I think its more an asian tourist trap. I love the video,verry informative thanks. Atleast i do not have to go there now😉❤
if you live that close it might be cool to go after the stuff in the park is closed (or before it opens) you can walk around and explore even though the restaurants and shops are closed :)
Great video! We live close to it (Beverwijk, try the Bazaar 😉), did you know people actually live in quite a number of these 'museum' houses? There is a great restaurant just accross the bridge in the street behind the windmill on the corner, café de Slager. De Zaanse Schans is almost always packed with people as it's close to Amsterdam 🫤
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can i suggest you go to one of the dutch "oogst feesten" ? stoppelhaene 2024 is one of the best one to go to.
Try mustard soup in Groningen !
In the short time that you have been in the Netherlands, you have seen more of the country than most Dutch people themselves👍
They haven't been in Garnwerd yet.
@@PaulaBean And you haven't been in Isidoriushoeve yet...
I concur
@@PaulaBeanWat is dat?
@@PaulaBeani prefer termunterzijl
As far as I know those small windmills were not made to make a tiny amount of coco, but were made to pump water out of the polder. My father has pictures of my childhood home in the early 20th century with one next to it. When I was living there it was already replaced by an electric "gemaal" a few 100 meters down the road though.
Windmills where used for many purposes, from pumping water to sawing planks for shipbuilding and construction ("zaagmolens") to foodprocessing (stamping grains, etc.). Basically they where the pre-fossil-fuel method of producing energy. Energy that could then be applied to many processes.
Je kan ook nog het Zuiderzeemuseum bezoeken. Daar heb je denk ik meer aan dan aan de Zaanse Schans.
it’s on the list :)
Zuiderzee museum is alles wat de Zaanse schans niet is: mooi, leuk en niet je local touristtrap .
Zaanse Schans=1 stroopwafel, Zuiderzeemuseum 5 stroopwafels 😊
Jaah, dat wilde ik ook net zeggen! Much nicer and more interesting than de Zaanse Schans! Lots of things to see, to experience and to do.
Even a better experience then Zaanse Schans including a museum about the first ever company that issued stock bonds (VOC)
@@buncharted If you are planning that trip; some advise...
It's called the 'Historische Driehoek'. The three cities called Hoorn, Enkhuizen and Medemblik. There is a LOT to see and do! Take your time and book a B&B in Hoorn or Enkhuizen.
1. Steam engine from Hoorn to Enkhuizen
2. Zuiderzee Museum (plan a whole day, take the ferry. It's the old ferry that used to go to Terschelling)
3. Steam engine museum, old busses, the museums in all cities, I liked Kasteel Radboud in Medemblik.
So much to comment here! I lived the first 10 years of my life in Zaandam. No where near the Zaanse Schans but in one of the first immigrant neighborhoods around Amsterdam. They built De Zaanse Schans for a reason there; Along the river Zaan there was the first "Industrial zone" of Europe. The windmills kept the waterlevels in balance but soon people found they also could provide a grinding, hammering, oil squizing and even sawing at the end. My father worked at a paint factory that originated from the 1600's as pigment was produced chemically and also imported via Amsterdam harbour and hammered to fine powder and mixed with plant oils extracted also by windmills. The chocolaty smell you noticed Michelle was from the Verkade factory which is in the Zaan area. Duyvis started production here, Honig started here as did Verkade. Lassie rice ook Zaans :-)
Verfmolen ‘De Kat’ ?
A little correction:
The chocolaty smell was not from Verkade.
Next to the trainstation is a big cacao factory, and around the Zaan too.
Verkade is way to far to smell, and besides that.. they don't produce that much cookies anymore at the original factory
@@LorenzoPoulainDrums Verkade smells more like sultanas
@@bergvanlicht i wanted to say that too. But that wasn't the point 😅 so i skipped that whole sentence.
Almost all the chocolaty stuff is produced elsewhere indeed
This was great fun... I live close by. It was my playground when it was built. Some of the houses came from a street in the village where I live. I walked through the street to school. I have ancestry that developed the process of hulling barley with a windmill. I think you missed the production processes in the windmills. The windmills and houses are originals but relocated to Zaanse Schans. The locations where the windmills stand today were originally occupied by other windmills that caught fire or were demolished.
I love the way you liked the windmill panorama painting. Frans Mars and my grandmother were cousins, so I share some ancestry with him. I met him a couple of times. He was also one of the founders of De Zaansche Molen society for preservation of windmills. I have some work of him too.
I would have loved to guide you a bit there, maybe next time.
What's really fun about the Zaanse Schans is that people from the area around it also just go there when they want a little outing not too far from home when it's nice out. Seriously, I'm positively certain that there are Zaankanters whose favorite Pancake Place is (the?) one on the Zaanse Schans.
Also, the village itself is just "open", no entree-fee or ticket required, so if you're in the neighbourhood, you can just go there if you like to get chalk or cheese, a stroopwafel or oldschool candy.
True that! Almost every Wednesday I'll take my toddler with me on a bakfiets ride: first stop the Wormerveer market. And then a "Zaanse Schans-loop" back to home!
My 15 months old daughter loves the windmills!
Oh that's true!
That is indeed my favorite pancake restaurant 😅
Some family of me even lived in the big house in front of Mosterdmolen De Huisman.
Nice that you liked it. I was born and raised there. The small windmill is a "Schelpenmolen" - it crushed sea shells into smaller pieces that were used on roads.
We visited Kinderdijk last week and we loved it so much more than we expected to. Learned so much about the windmills and got to tour one which was incredibly impressive.
i can’t believe how close we live to kinderdijk and yet we still haven’t been there 😅
@@bunchartedyou can easily bike there from Dordrecht! Het is een mooie fietstocht!
I loved this video!
I'm from De Zaanstreek. Our history is very fun to know about!
Thanks for checking out a bit of it 🙂
Family of me even lived in the house right in front of Mosterdmolen De Huisman, next to the antique museum. Which was quite interesting, because of all the tourists.
Oh and.. yeah, the Duivekater needed some butter.
Duivekater is top tier 😁
het eerste kleine molentje is een poldermolen. bedoeld om delen van de polder droog te malen. aan de overkant van de Zaan is het Czaar Peterhuisje. niet veel te zien maar historisch zeer belangrijk.
My English literature teacher went there because apparently James Joyce (from Ulysses fame) visited it almost a 100 years ago.
This week's CGI budget was well spend on that exploding frietje. 😂
thank you, this is why we have a patreon 😂
The little windmills are ä "Weidemolen". They were placed in the meadows as small watermills, to pump water out of the ditches.
My mother-in-law, lived on the other side of the Zaan. So we visited the Zaanse Schans often. But we still have to visit the Zaanse Molenhouse.
You can see a lot of small "Openluchtmuseums". In my neighbourhood even 4, Nijbeets (how the peatworkers lived), Damwoude, Ezinge and Orvelte. All worth visiting.
"Avoid the crowded paths in July and August"
- old Chinese proverb 😉
Oh, the Chinese do so! They crowd every available connection around Chinese New Year. :-)
@@chrislaarman7532that is because its the only period most of them have holiday/few days off. Rest of the year they need to work
Thank you for reminding me of the existence of duivekater. I'm gonna have to try to make it myself sometime.
You were right that you should eat it with some butter on top. Also it's said that it tastes better when it's at least a day old.
oh man we ate it every morning with butter after this and it was so good
@@rafierafie8834 we had duivekater every year at pentacostal day. But it looked a bit different as far as I remember: ours were a braided sweet bread. (?)
I think it is really cute how a lot of the tourists in the background are dressed kind of for the occasion, cottagecore style.
I was there in mid-June and it was great. The weather was perfect and the crowd size was pleasant.
Next time visit Zaandam as well, obviously the famous hotel with the zaanse huisjes next to the train station. An extreme toerist hotspot these days.
You can visit the old Verkade factory which now houses our library, a school for backers (where you can buy and eat the things the students have made), plus a restaurant next to the zaan. And it is opposite the still working Verkade factory where they make Sultana.
And visit the Monet sites including the blue house which is also near the Tsar Peter museum. In the Monet atelier you can find replicas of all his paintings of Zaandam.
De Zaanse Mosterd is truly the best! I always bring some jars with me if I visit the region... 🙂
Weet je wat zo leuk is Alex en Michelle aan jullie videos, natuurlijk jullie twee 😁, maar al die leuke anekdotes van m'n landgenoten over plekken in Nederland die ik ken en ook onbekend zijn voor me.
Thanks for another good one guys! 😃🌷
It's a beautiful place the Zaanse Schans. I should go there again, cause alot has changed throughout the years. Thanks for showing!
One of your best videos. So natural.
love you guys. Van harte welkom in Nederland. People like you we can't have enough. Goed gedaan Alex, goed gedaan Michelle.
Well, it has been said before, but the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen is absolotely worth visiting! It tells you all about living at/with the Zuiderzee, shows a lot of history in a pleasant way. And Enkhuizen itself is also a very nice place to visit. So, let's go!
soon 😁
Glad you visited this place. I'm born and raised in Zaandam and still living in the area.
I understand Michelle loves the Duyvis nuts or in Dutch: "De Duyvis borrelnootjes."
Fun fact: If you look over Michelle left shoulder (or on the right site of the screen) @15:52 you can see axwonan wearing a blue top. Behind this wonan you'll see a tall and slim chimney.
That's the modern Duyvis factory producing the borrelnootjes 😄 .
I don't know if you can book a facory tour.
Not only the industry in Zaandam but the industry in the whole area called "De Zaanstreek" is mostley food related.
The industry used to produce food and products for producing food like starch, cacao and machines for food production.
When I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's the city council used the slogan "De provisiekast van Nederland" meaning "The larder fot the Netherlands" for city marketing.
Last but not least.... ; At the Zaanse Schans tickets are being sold for €10,- . You don't have to buy it. Acces to the Zaanse Schans is free, the €10,- ticket is for accessing all the windmills.
The Zaanse Schans is open 24/7, only the windmills and some other things like the historic Albert Heijn store is opened between 10am and 5pm.
I live across the river (de Zaan) from the Zaanse Schans. It's small but beautiful (haha what she said). Also the surrounding villages can be worth a visit, like the Zaanbocht in Wormerveer.
2:00 Yes, there's still two active cacao factories :) most foreign people dislike the smell.
3:10 A lot of "older" people I know have had a summer job at the Verkade factory.
6:38 My grandfather built a miniature windmill for de kinderboerderij (petting zoo) in Rooswijk (basicly new Zaandijk)
7:40 Most young people start their career as either a cashier or stock clerk in the Netherlands at Albert Heijn (or other supermarkets) :D
8:05 Me and my dad live in a replica (less than 50 years old) of one of these houses from the Zaanse schans. It's called the Domineestuin. It gets very warm in the summer though 🥵🥵
11:00 Don't come in December. Well, maybe if there's snow and ice 😂😂
13:50 Can't beat Zaanse Mosterd (and Zaanse Mayo)
14:34 Got a Whiskey tasting session planned here in November 😊😊
Guys, if you want to go back, take a look at the Voetveer Zaandijk (ferry) next time. It takes you directly from the Zaanse Schans to old Zaandijk, which is also beautiful and has some nice history and eating/drinking opportunity's on the Lagedijk.
Glad you enjoyed Zaandijk :)
Not only foreigners dislike the cocoa scent. I grew up 1 km from the Droste factory in Haarlem. When the wind was south east it was that nauseous scent that came into your nose. Luckily the wind was mostly south west. I believe the Droste factory has moved to Vaassen, so Haarlem is a bit more livable now.
I visited Zaanse Schans this spring with 2 canadian nephews. And you could smell 'a factory' for sure. South of the Schans !
Yeah I grew up with it too and to me it definitely doesn't smell like good cocoa, probably because it is the burning and processing smell: there's a sourness to it and reminds me of burnt rubber.@ronaldderooij1774
You should definitely do "De Zuiderzee museum" in Enkhuizen.
You will experience the origin culture of the Netherlands...
soon!
Yes, I do get your point! :-) However, the Netherlands had begun being cultivated at least a thousand years before the Flevo lake had become the Zuiderzee. Besides, the Zuiderzeemuseum "freezes" life at the closing of the Afsluitdijk (eliminating the tide, having the salt water grow fresh). - To some extent, the Zuiderzeemuseum shares a "look and feel" [matter of opinion] with the recreated village in the Veenpark near Emmen. And with parts of the Nationaal Openluchtmuseum at Arnhem, obviously.
Note to self: I should revisit the Archeon at Alphen aan den Rijn.
Born and raised in the Zaanregion.. My grandmother was a Verkade meisje, I lived next to the Zaan for years and on my first weddingday we took pictures on the Zaanse Schans.. that was fun walking in your wedding dress and loads of tourists taking pictures of me instead of the windmills 😂 It was as crowded then as in your video.. (30 years ago)
Another tip: there is a path trough the polder, it starts just after all the historic buildings and ends behind the observation tower. It is a nice short walk away from the tourists though fields and bridges, can be a bit wet.
M: "Good luck making inappropriate jokes today."
A: "I do love a challenge."
We can sense the pain it took to visit such a touristy area, but the sheer duty to buncharted2 obviously ruled the day. 😀
Your devotion to see it all, and do it all is to be respected. Cheers on the Patreon. It's actually a guilt-relief to be able to reimburse you for the vast amount of entertaining content you guys create. Also, nice to flip the script and see the silver lining of the good side to Zaanse Schans... as usual even the most touristy things in NL still have a core value that can't be denied.
thank you for supporting us on patreon and for being here since the beginning 😄
The sawmill is perfect, as is the mill that produces pigments.
I really enjoy watching your videos, but this one in particular. I went to the highschool next to the Zaans Museum and as a teenager I cycled every weekday across the Zaanse Schans. The parents of a highschool friend still live in one of the houses there. I can walk there from our current place in 25 minutes or so and when visiting my mom in the next neighbourhood I often stand in traffic from people wanting to park at the Zaanse Schans. It is just brilliant seeing you visit the place and I did not know the food is that good.
Je kan naar Marken en moei klein schiereiland ( sinds 1957 ) en dorp bij de Markermeer , in de beurd is ook Volendam en Monnickendam die ook de bezichting waard zijn.
Wat verder weg er van is Hoorn zeker ook en bezichting waard.
Vergeet Edam niet.
@@LindaEll89 en het treintje tussen hoorn en enkhuizen
nice overview! I took my parents on a rainy November as part of a full-day trip including Edam and Volendam, and took a friend there in October with far better weather and we even entered one of the windmills where they cut logs. great spot to take friends and family :)
Weather was amazing on your day! I will be visiting late August. Its my 12th visit to the NL but always find something new to do! We are coming to a WWE wrestling show in Rotterdam. I have to squeeze in Zaanse Schans! Thank you for your videos!
Biking through the village to get to the park was really cool.
Nice vlog, but I get the feeling it was too busy ;)
And then the tip is to also visit the open-air museum in Enkhuizen, because that is the most beautiful. More beautiful than Arnhem. It may be less busy there after the summer holidays, sometime in September. And Enkhuizen itself is also beautiful.
my grandma used to live closeby and my parents are from the region. I used to go almost every year growing up, we just biked from my grandma's house. I was always shocked by the amount of (mostly) Asian tourists. for me it's quite a 'normal' place, but I can understand from the point of few of especially foreigners that it's an interesting place to visit.
I was born here, my father run the Duyvis laboratorium.
Great trip, yeah is is worth it.
Duivekater and mustard !
Next time, zuiderzeemuseum? Try to go when there are schippers taking people out on their platbodem boats. Also the Ellert en Brammert museum and Orvelte the monument village in Drenthe which also has a couple of very interresting tiny museums are really good.
When in the Zuiderzee museum, try the fresh smokey haring!
We came here during the Covid-peak around may2020 and we were practically the ONLY ONES!!!😅🎉
We were there in April of 2023 and it wasn’t that busy. We were on a bus tour and were a bit rushed so we didn’t get to see very much. I guess we just have to come back!
Funny fact the show so many times De Zaanse Schans as the Dutch war on water, but they are mustard mills.
hahaha
I live close by. There is only one mustard mill(actually a spice mill), called the Huisman. Awesome mustard!
From wikipedia:
De Huisman (The Houseman), a mustardmill
De Gekroonde Poelenburg (The Crowned Poelenburg), a sawmill
De Kat (The Cat), a dyemill
Het Jonge Schaap (The Young Sheep), a sawmill
De Os (The Ox), an oilmill
De Zoeker (The Seeker), an oilmill
Het Klaverblad (The Cloverleaf), a sawmill
De Bonte Hen (The Spotted Hen), an oilmill
@@guidowiegman I have lived in a truncated windmill from 1779 near Rotterdam close the river the Rotte. In a row of four only number 2 and 4 survived.
Truncated = afgeknotte, de kap met de wieken is verwijderd. Het nieuwe gedeelte van de A16 loopt slechts een paar meter naast de molen.
Compliments for the editing and explanation, nice background music, and clear explanations of everything you saw. Oh, and Alex, you're a dirty old man 😆
Leuk dat jullie in de buurt waren!!
Goede video weer! Jammer dat het zo druk was, ik ben er eens in april geweest op een doordeweekse dag, dat was prima te doen. Zijn jullie weleens in het Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen geweest? Dat is ook een erg mooi openluchtmuseum. Het Veenpark in Barger-Compascuum is ook erg interessant en ook een openluchtmuseum.
I have worked at that antique shop when I was a student I live on the other side of the water in the village of Zaandijk
I visited Zaanse Schans in early February and it was still pretty busy. People would stop on the narrow raised paths to get their selfies in every 10 feet, blocking everyone. It felt very touristy to me and I doubt I would go back. I do want to go to kinderdijk on my next trip though.
yeah, i had the same experience
i can’t believe we live basically next to kinderdijk and haven’t been there yet 😅
When you go back, make sure to go inside the windmills! The extra fee is worth it and fascinating to see how the different windmills work and what they do.
Also, the views from on top of the windmill and seeing the blades whirring by up close is an experience
Just became a patreon member. Love your channel 😊
yay thank you for the support 🥰
Fun thing, kids in Zaanstad go to the Zaanse Schans with school. To learn about the history of Zaanstad.
There’s a mustard and vinegar museum in Doesburg. No idea if they have a mustard soup there for you to try.
ahhhhhh WHAT
@@buncharted it’s apparently really tiny though.
I passed by Zaanse Schans om my way home from a customer nearby when it was around 30 deg outside and loads of tourists walking around. I felt sorry for em because of the weather.
oof
Russian tsar Peter the Great visited Zaandam in the late 1700 hundreds to learn how to build ships
Late 17th century, late 1600's therefore.
And to think he only spend 1 night in Zaandam 😂 he stayed in the little house that is now called the Tsar Peter house.. but he was there only one night as a guest hahaha
Hello ! I love video so I hope you always happy ❤
Nice video from where i come originally near from. But i think the openlucht Museum in Arnhem is more nice. Also Burgers Zoo is besides that place🥰 Take care friends🤗
you got the whole year! why go in high season?! :D
the Zaanse schans itself is fun enough imo.. at least I had fun walking around there for a few hrs, was not too bad for a free trip ;)
If you love movies in a an old style theater got to Cinerama in Rotterdam. Mostly the same movies from Pathe but the audices is different like the all atmosphere. I love it.
you did top travel~have a nice day~
It's not a Buncharted video without dirty jokes and innuendo. 👌
and a bit of naturisme
de uitspraak van Verkade is Verkade niet Verkada , pas na 5 keer begreep ik waar het over ging. (Nooit in de buurt van Zaanse schans geweest)
Duyvis verstond ik wel. Molen heeft de klemtoon (stress) op MO, dus MO-len.
Ik wil niet te lullig zijn maar ondanks dat ik waardeer dat ze alle namen kennen is hun uitspraak zoooo belabberd 😂
Me after rewinding for the 4th time....what? ...oh... she said Two-headed PHEONIX 😂
I haven't checked, but maybe you should do the Efteling, because that must be one of the most touristy things you can do.
we went last year but we are due for a return :)
It’s your life, it’s your video, it’s freedom. Just make as many inappropriate jokes as you’d like. You stay you! Don’t change the way you make videos because you think you will get more likes and subscribers. I like that the videos are authentic. I’ve been to Zaanse Schans a couple months ago. I have seen it. I have seen many other videos of people visiting the same thing. I’m not interested in Zaanse Schans at all. I’m interested in your adventures and the way you experience them.
That machine reminds me of you joke 👌🤣
1:07 challenge accepted 😎
1:10 "the word" isn't the only thing that has been out recently 🥵😂
Jullie komen al aardig in de buurt van mijn regio...
Ah, my daughter works there. In the diamond shop.
the best mayo in the world is and will always be Zaanse Mayonaise
Well, where else will you find so much in such a small area?
the arnhem openlucht museum!
but yeah, that is one is the things that was great about this place
Stroopwafel approved!
misschien een keer naar Doesburg om de Doesburgse mosterdsoep te proberen
hmmmm nieuwe video idee, denk ik! “we probeerden elke nederlandse mosterdsoepen”
Welkom in de Zaanstreek
maybe a trip for the herfst?
if we have one this year 😅
I see that my previous post was removed. Was that because of the link? Should I have only placed the picture of the 'stacked Zaanse houses'?
wasn’t me! i didn’t see it :)
Me, I have repeatedly found comments disappeared after being visible. - The other month, someone else couldn't find the comment that I had replied to. As I remember it, the other's comment did not contain a link, bad language or whatever. (I'm not being channel-specific.)
Zaanse Schans does not close. It's a public road. Only the shops, windmills etc. have opening hours. Also, you do not have to pay an entrance fee. It's gratis (very Dutch).
yeah, we figured out after that we should have just stayed there after the stuff in the park closed
it is nice that it’s free :)
Oops 2nd comment: Double Dutch is surprise surprise : Founded by 2 Dutch girls! Living in almost walking distance where I live (Belgium). Having the company HQ in London.
heyyyy i was hoping someone had some intel on this. nice!
edit- guess i could have googled it 😂 i really thought they just thought the name was cute
12:19 Good one.
Disneyland!
I don't like windmills, but the invention of the saw mill has changed the course of world history, allowing the Dutch Republic to build ships 30 times faster and, in combination with modern finance and early central banking, dominate the trade in Europe. The Dutch had more merchant ships than the rest of Europe combined and it took the British Empire until around 1800 to take over as the world's biggest trader. Without getting filthy rich that way, the Dutch Republic would have been crushed by the superpowers Spain and later France and Britain, those two even attacking togehter and together with German states.
De Zaanse schans is not a museum . People are living there. It’s Dutch Heritage. De open lucht museum in Arnhem , is a big open air museum .The houses are real , brought from all over the country and built there again. In Enkhuizen in Noord-Holland there is also a very nice open air museum . You can reach it by boat and train, in both museums you can see how the Dutch lived in the past,
i understand that people live at zaanse schans (and not at the arnhem openlucht museum), but they’re real, historic zaan homes and many were relocated there - no?
@@buncharted The difference between the Zaanse Schans and the museums in Arnhem and Enhuizen is that the Zaanse Schans is an existing village, where people lived since 1961-1963, that in contrast to the museums in Arnhem and Enkhuizen. The houses that have been rebuilt in Arnhem and Enkhuizen are also original houses that come from all over the Netherlands, including the Zaanstreek.The houses and some of the windmill’s on the Zaanse Schans came also from the Zaanstreek , but the big difference remains that this is sinds the beginning an existing village and the museums in Arnhem and Enkhuizen are not. These are structured as museums where visitors can see how the Dutch used to live.
The Zaanse schans was set up as a hamlet / buurtschap , Reason : It was very important to preserve the wooden Zaanse houses and windmills and protect them from decay, to protect our cultural heritage, habitation was a important requirement .
From the beginning it was not set up as a museum, unlike our open-air museums.
By the way, would you like to visit a very very nice open-air museum in Belgium? It’s in Bokrijk. It’s between Genk and Hasselt. You can find info from it on internet. Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk , with their own station a 5-minute walk away they are also easily accessible by train.
ik weet niet of jullie er al geweest zijn maar wat dacht je van Madurodam in Den Haag en doe dan een wedstijd hoeveel gebouwen jullie al gezien hebben bij jullie reizen door ons land het is ook een open lucht museum (attractie) met een hoop toeristen , en nog iets wat ik altijd raar vind en misschien jullie ook als toeristen originele Hollandse waren proberen bijvoorbeeld de stroopwafel nemen ze altijd andere troep erop ( M&M's , Nutela , kruimels ) terwijl ze gewoon naturel het lekkerste zijn (vind ik) weer met veel plezier naar de video gekeken bedankt en op naar de volgende THANKS GUYS ................
dat komt niet door de toeristen , maar door de verkopers die zo meer proberen te verdienen
maar ik ben het met je eens, bij vrijwel ALLES zijn de originele smaken het beste. vanille vla, paprika chips, aardbeien yoghurt, hazelnootpasta. pleurt een end op met je kaneelsuiker pringles of wasabi chocola.......
we went to madurodam in our first den haag video last year and we loved it!
it would be interesting to return at some point and see how many of the buildings we’ve seen now. we’ve seen a lot more of the netherlands since then!
Liquor for children 😭😭😭 HAHAHAHAHA
@buncharted: typo in description - "n this episode, " needs a leading I.
thanks - fixed!
You know that nutmeg is hallucinogenic when consumed in large quantities?
that explains the euphoric feeling i get whenever i eat mustard soup
zaanse schans is een walhalla voor zakkenrollers/pickpockets
yeah, i can imagine, with those big crowds 😅
Based just on the title of the video (haven't seen it yet): YES this is a huge tourist trap
Zaanse Schans was never intended to be for tourists.. It was meant to preserve the wooden buildings and windmills. The first 15-20 years there were no tourists there, but a tour operator in Amsterdam organized tours to Edam-Volendam-Marken and he was the one that got the idea to bring the tourists to Zaanse Schans too. Most of the (entrance/toilet) fees go to the preservation of the buildings.
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Me being Dutch never been there. 😅
😂😂😂
Ok, i am ashamed, you have seen more of the Netherlands, than I have ever seen. Please stay, you belong here.
Michelle and Alex did you ever visit a Hunebed?
what is it? 🤔
@@buncharted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen
Een hunebed of dolmen is een megalithische (Oudgrieks: μέγας megas: groot, λίθος lithos: steen) grafkamer uit het neolithicum (4000-3000 v.Chr.) die bestaat uit ten minste drie, maar vaak (veel) meer staande draagstenen, overdekt door een of meer dekstenen.
Hunebedden zijn volgens de gangbare theorie resten van prehistorische grafkamers. Ze zijn echter niet te beschouwen als graven in de gewone betekenis, maar eerder als knekelhuizen. Het is niet met zekerheid te zeggen dat grafsignalisatie de oorspronkelijke functie van al deze bouwwerken is geweest. Er zijn dolmens waarvan vermoed wordt dat ze enkel als heiligdom dienstdeden.
In Nederland worden ze vooral gevonden in Drenthe, veelal op de Hondsrug. Ze zijn gebouwd tussen 3350 en 3050 v.Chr.,[1] in de meest westelijke uitloper van het territorium van de trechterbekercultuur. In totaal zijn er daar 52 hunebedden bewaard gebleven in Nederland. In Duitsland en Denemarken zijn er nog honderden te vinde
And English it fund in the east part of the Netherlands: A dolmen (/ˈdɒlmɛn/) or portal tomb is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000-3000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound). Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance.[1] In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone "skeleton".
A certain type of dolmen. Megalithic tombs. Over 5000 years old.
Enkhuizen Zuiderzee museum, you'll love it better!
let’s hope so 😅
Yes, partly
Tiktok famous. 😂
If anything screams "don't go there!", it's "tiktok famous"...
agreed but that chocolate cookie thing with the cream in the middle in amsterdam is worth it 😂
lmao the opening shot even looks like some kind of fake greenscreen image
we filmed this entire video in our house 😉
I watch 0,01 second and yes is a tourist trap.
Zaanse Schans is a lttle village were people live.
So when you look into the home there actually real poeple live and have their pivacy before and after the tourists leave !
that’s so cool!
I live right next to it ,Purmerend, but never visit it. I have bin canoeing there. I think its more an asian tourist trap. I love the video,verry informative thanks. Atleast i do not have to go there now😉❤
if you live that close it might be cool to go after the stuff in the park is closed (or before it opens)
you can walk around and explore even though the restaurants and shops are closed :)
Great video! We live close to it (Beverwijk, try the Bazaar 😉), did you know people actually live in quite a number of these 'museum' houses? There is a great restaurant just accross the bridge in the street behind the windmill on the corner, café de Slager. De Zaanse Schans is almost always packed with people as it's close to Amsterdam 🫤
@@deborahpolman2427 Thanks. Restaurant de Slager, i will go there.👍
Completely Dutchified with the Dopper in your bag already?
haha yeah we both use doppers 😎
The cocoa smell delicious? what do you smell that is so nice, cause i find it smell’s disgusting