Well..., to make some suggestions to visit BESIDE Amsterdam...: Utrecht: only half an hour by train from Amsterdam (more than 6 trains per hour go to Utrecht from Amsterdam CS). The canals over there are unique because of the "werven" en "werfkelders". Also the "Paushuis" and the museums "van speelklok tot pierement", "spoorwegmuseum" or "Catharijneconvent" are worth a visit. You can also go "domunder" to decend to roman times of Utrecht. Monnickendam, Edam: Towns, just within half an hour drive from Amsterdam, are very authentic. Hoorn, Enkhuizen: Towns within an hour drive from Amsterdam with a rich VOC (you know, the world's first multinational..) history. Also the "Zuiderzeemuseum" in Enkhuizen is worth a visit. Well, lot and lots more, like: Zierikzee, Arnhem, Naarden, "nieuwe hollandse waterlinie", Maastricht (did you know that the famous d'Artagan was kia there..), Roermond, Arnhem, Deventer, ""Hunebedden", Schokland, Lemmer, Heusden, Doetinchem, Amerongen (German emperor Wilhelm II signed his abdication there on November 28th, 1918), Doorn, and lots and lots and lots more.
I live in Haarlem, in the west of the country. My city has been protected from the sea by a national park. This park contains some large dunes, and woodlands. One of the highest dunes, where some people also live on, is “Het Kopje van Bloemendaal”. This dune top is 43 meters tall, and covered with forest and some very expensive mansions. The municipality of Bloemendaal being some of the wealthiest places in the Netherlands.
There are actually a few places where you can hike in the hills (or even mountains) in the Netherlands, particularly in the province of Limburg or Guelders (with the highest points being: Vaalserberg (322m) and Signaal Imbosch (110m) respectively). There is also Mt. Scenery (887m) on the Dutch Caribbean municipality island of Saba and The Quill (601m) on the Dutch Caribbean municipality island of Sint Eustatius. In the entire kingdom of the Netherlands you can also visit the Sint-Christoffelberg (371m) on Curaçao, Mount Flagstaff (361m) on Sint Maarten or Jamanota (188m) on Aruba. Fun fact: The highest point of mainland European Netherlands (Vaalserberg (332m) is higher than that of Denmark (Møllehøj (171m)).
You can carry 5 grams for personal use, you cannot smoke cannibis in public, ww2 destroyed a lot of buildings in Rotterdam, so we have more modern buildings...
No, Rotterdam doesn't have no old buildings from the bombardment, but because the city officials decided that the old city that was bombed would be flattened and a whole new city to be built. It was a choice not to renovate the old buildings to their former state. Everywhere cities in Europe have been bombed heavily. Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, Warsaw (flattened twice: in 1938 and in 1944). Den Helder was the most bombed city in NL. Nijmegen got bombed by a mistake bombardment by American/British in 1944 (just like Enschede that night). Nijmegen had the same nr of casualties as Rotterdam in 1940, but for a city 5x smaller ! Those cities have the same structure with a lot of old buildings renovated. Only in Rotterdam they decided otherwise. (and, unlike other cities, they cultivated the bombardment 'victimhood' , how the bombardment changed the city. Sorry to mention this, and commisseration with whom had relatives perish at the bombardment. ).
The Netherlands got hammered during WWII, that's true. Although a lot of damage was caused by allied bombing with the aim to bring the occupying power, Nazi Germany, to its knees. The city of Rotterdam was bombed by Nazi germany in 1940, but for instance The Hague was bombed by the allied forces, as well as Middelburg, Hengelo, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Zutphen and Breskens to name a few (in all, around 600 bombing raids were conducted by the allied forces on the Netherlands).
I don't speak Spanish or Portuguese, but about Dutch and German: it's not the same. A good number of words are similar (like history: geschiedenis in Dutch and geschichte in German), but a lot of words are completely different as well. Depending on what someone is talking about and which words they use you might get a general idea, but it really depends on the situation. In most Dutch high schools children get German lessons though, so most should have at least a basic understanding of German. Enough to ask for directions, order a meal, that sort of thing. About us speaking English, there's something called the EF English Proficiency Index, which ranks non-English speaking countries by how proficient it's population is in English. The Netherlands is constantly ranked #1 in that. For one, linguistically Frisian (spoken in the Friesland province) is the closest language to English, and Dutch is the second closest. Besides that we also don't dub foreign tv-shows and movies (except for children) like a lot of other countries do. Instead we use subtitles, which makes it easier to learn another language. Besides that, Dutch children start learning English in school around age 8-10 (some schools start even earlier, from age 4-5) and that continues all the way through highschool. Some people from older generations might struggle a bit, but about everyone under the age of 50 should be able to have a proper conversation in English without too much trouble. About crime: there's also a lot of drug related crime here. With the harbors of both Rotterdam and Antwerp nearby, the southern part of the Netherlands has a high concentration of drug producing facilities. About the Netherlands being partially below sea level, not sure if you have seen those vids about the Delta Works, but they might be interesting to check out: th-cam.com/video/i6DRRHXt-PA/w-d-xo.html (Real Engineering - Why The Netherlands Isn't Under Water) th-cam.com/video/_LSVNW_bPqs/w-d-xo.html (Hindsight - How the Dutch solved an (almost) Impossible Problem) th-cam.com/video/76sFFiwPJ9E/w-d-xo.html (Hindsight - How the Dutch Realized this Insane Megaproject
Dutch language is not the same as German, in Holland when you say I call you back in 5 , they do that , and not in aussie 2 days later, and in Holland we curse alot with diseases. This is from a Dutchmen who lives in Aussie.
I live in south- east of the Netherlands in in the province of Limburg.My environment is cerainly not flat but hilly. It is also called the predecessor of the Alps.Every year thousands of people from all over the Netherlands come here with their racing bikes to cycle up the hills.❤👍
we start learning english in school from around the age of 9-10 (from groep 6 of the basisschool for those who know how it works) so yea by the time we turn 18 we should have a proper understanding of the english language (at least for most) even tho most kids will be introduced to it via youtube/social media and games even before that age
When I was in uni in the early 2000’s I had a few courses in English. For one of them we needed to write a paper in teams of two. We asked the professor if we could do it in Dutch since he was Dutch as well. He said we could, but also that he would expect us to be able to write it in English because we were university students. So we did and got a 9 out of 10
Not all that proficiently though. I remember, on a scale of 10, scoring an average of a 3 for French (3 years compulsory), a 5 to 6 for German (2 years compulsory) and an 8 to 9 for English (5 to 6 years compulsory). It must be pointed out though that I had no affinity with French at all and my German teacher was a dork. English, however, benefitted me because I could receive British Television channels with sci fi series I wanted to see. So affinity always helps a lot. ;-D
That viaduct/bridge in the beginning with the tramtracks is 5 min from my home.. Video about Dutch beaches (little old): th-cam.com/video/RvkVKRXqY-4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mKwEue8Ot8oOw-4n
Too bad the guy ONLY says Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague all the time. Try other cities, like Den Bosch, and many places in Limburg or Groningen or Friesland. And the East of the Netherlands, so much history there as well and many many many beautiful nature
@MoreAussieTash I was wondering, do you like Eurovision? If so, the entry of the Netherlands is absolutely going viral, maybe it's an idea to watch and comment on it. It's very much out there, I'm obsessed with it, even though the music style is not really mine, I absolutely love it, also because of the history of the singer. Maybe worth a watch?
About the flatness. Yes in the province of Limburg in the south we have rolling hills. But the highest point is just 324 meters high. Most of my country is very flat. You can climb the 'mountain' but you can easily cycle it 😂😂😂 And about our English, it is indeed learned, but so is Dutch. Most people in The Netherlands speak fluently English. The main reason is our TV programs. Many of the shows are spoken in English but we have subtitles. So children easily pick up English just by watching TV. I learned my English with Inspector Gadget and Transformers. Btw: I'm 6,3 feet tall but that's normal. There are many who are taller than me. 😂
Nope! If you think windmills are just a touristy thing! Windmills are not JUST for tourists!! From the 17th century on...And even before that: from the 14th century on....In some places.... They where here just to assure we could survive.
Morning Tash☕️ That was great. Curious how they harvest the tulips, or are the fields just to look beautiful. When I was a little girl we had a family in town that ran the bakery they were from Holland at that time. Once when they went back my friend brought me a pair of wooden clogs, are these still worn? Anyway love learning about the Netherlands maybe someday I’ll get over there! Have a beautiful day🫶
Even Rotterdam that got bombed almost to nothing, and looks very modern today, you can walk around a modern building and find a 300 year old little harbor or a very old church or water tower. You can bike in a 100 year old tunnel underneath the river and still in use. So yes there lots of old buildings left even if they got bombed. We have a lot of old building: form before christ so same age as stoneHenge in the UK to Roman Empire, spanish occupation, a france influence, and castles and dutch golden age and we preserve a lot. You find that every city has its own charm and style.
Not just Limburg, Gelderland and in particulair the Rijk van Nijmegen area and the surroundings of Arnhem are very much like Zuid Limburg or like Cornwall (England) even. And even Drenthe and (west) Brabant have some elevation.
lmao have you any idea how funny that is for someone outside of NL with real mountains and hills, like an Aussie? our land is pretty much a pancake with a few small dents and bumps hah
@@Dutch-linux Of course I have. My grandmother was born there. I've also been over the world to places like New Zealand. Where they have true hills and mountains lol. Ours are just baby hills.
In the Netherlands there are still many buildings from the past, but not Rotterdam, during the Second World War the center was bombed flat by the Germans. In Rotterdam history has been wiped away.
Haia Tash, just a suggestion.... try one of the best bands The Netherlands ever had ... The Cats ("One Way Wind" for example) ....they made some great music in the seventies.... love your reactions, you're keeping it real ... love from Delft, The Netherlands 😊
Oh no ! One of my comments about English language in The Netherlands ended up under Albert Kassenaar's comment! One of my two comments there was meant for the wider public 😅
If you whant to see a beutiful landscape , then go to the province ; Friesland with a lot of lakes and beautiful places ,And last but not least, you can drive the distens on a bike. There are a lot of places on the Ijsselmeer . Lemmer - Staveren - Workum - Makkum.
I'm Dutch Canadian...yes, we are rude. It's not a "direct" ghing. I discovered upon moving to Canada that we dutch people do not learn common conversation courtesy taught elsewhere...sorry, we're rude (by comparison) and its accurate
Hi Tash, love your reactions and hope you will be able to checkout our country in real time 😊 .... you should checkout the reaction sites of some expats that moved to The Netherlands (like Soul to Soul Travel or Buncharted - both are couples from the States, but don't let that keep you .....) ..... get some indepth look on the life here combined with humor 😊 ..... love from Delft, The Netherlands
Hiking of course you can but hill climbing only in Limburg I guess. I am from the north and is mosly flat. And in the war only Rotterdam was bombed so their centre is not that historical anymore but for the rest the historical buildings are still there.
Really hoping you will react to the Eurovision entry of the Netherlands soon, but thanks for all your content about our country anyway love it so much!!
Sometimes in my backyard smoke Cannabis. Never if i walk in the streets and shops. Yess no crime and lot of countrys follow this rule also, offcourse Germany
1. So when you said "can you climb a hill somewhere" did you actually mean a hill? because if so then yes. We have hills, biggest one is 322 meters high, its called the "vaalserberg" but its a hill, not a mountain so you'd probably do no actual climbing but more walking. If you'd look at the total of our kindom, theres an island called Saba which has a vulcano called "mount scenery" Its part of the netherlands but not in the main land. Saba is a special municipality. 2. I had 4 years german class in high school, (that's 8 years ago and never practiced again) and I can understand what they say but cant talk back. Some words sound similar but most of them are too diffrent to understand. We can, for example, perfectly understand flamish and south african. 3. Bikes dont have the right of way everywhere. For example, if you are at a juction as a biker where there's no signs or marks, you have to give the right of way to the person coming from the right (in your own perspective). If you bike on a two way road (on the right side as we do) and you want to go left at a junction, you have to give everything the right of way thats coming at you from the other side. if you have shark teeth as we call them, triangles paited on the road with the poit facing you, you have to give all drivers (including bikers cuz they drive a bike so to speak) the right of way. Just a few examples. 4. We, in our village at least, have something we call a bvo'tje. BVO stands for Bier Voor Onderweg and it translates to "beer for on the road" the tje behind it you can ignore because it basically means little if you put it behind a word but the bvo can be all sizes :). The bvo is a beer you drink when you go to someones house, drink, and then go to a pub. On your way to the pub you take a bvo'tje with you on your bike and you drink while riding it. Or when you are drinking at a friend and you're almost out of beer but another friend still has a few crates with bottles, you take a bvo'tje and you go to their place.
Bikes DO NOT have right of way everywhere. Cyclists also need to conform to various road markings and signals. At an "equal" intersection traffic coming from the right has right of way. It may very well be a car or truck, so the cyclist will have to wait.
@@Lilygirl283I can't agree with the "..not very smart.." part but where is the word Dutch coming from? People from Spain speak Spanish, people from Germany speak German, people from England speak English, people from Turkey speak Turkish, in Italy people speak Italian, Greek in Greece. Of course it all has to do with history. Dutch probably comes from Deutsch (German). There seems to be a lot of confusion here. For example, Amish. Amish people speak Dutch. They don't! Their language is much more simular to German (Deutsch). Dutch and German share a lot of words, but the language is very different. (less BS than you aimed at)
Before the 1st and 2nd war not many people spoke English. We spoke mainly Dutch dialect, German and French. The general Dutch language known as Dutch is a sort of agreed dialect coming from Haarlem. I can hop on my bicycle and cycle for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 hours and the the (tone of) language changes. Go to Brabant, Twente, Groningen or Gelderland and you will have a hard time understanding the language. Go to Zeeland or Limburg and you just won't be able to understand what they're saying! Of course everyone knows how to speak Dutch, AN (Algemeen Nederlands=General Dutch). And than we have Friesland! In Friesland people speak Fries(ch)! That's a separate language, officially! Officially, in the Netherlands, there are two languages! ❤😂
I had to laugh when Stamppot And herring mentioned in one sentence😂 of course separate dishes
Not just in same sentence, the way it sounded was as if the herring was in the stamppot... I was like noooooooo
@@vikingdragon2764 😂yes, together is 🤮🤣
Well..., to make some suggestions to visit BESIDE Amsterdam...:
Utrecht: only half an hour by train from Amsterdam (more than 6 trains per hour go to Utrecht from Amsterdam CS). The canals over there are unique because of the "werven" en "werfkelders". Also the "Paushuis" and the museums "van speelklok tot pierement", "spoorwegmuseum" or "Catharijneconvent" are worth a visit. You can also go "domunder" to decend to roman times of Utrecht.
Monnickendam, Edam: Towns, just within half an hour drive from Amsterdam, are very authentic.
Hoorn, Enkhuizen: Towns within an hour drive from Amsterdam with a rich VOC (you know, the world's first multinational..) history. Also the "Zuiderzeemuseum" in Enkhuizen is worth a visit.
Well, lot and lots more, like: Zierikzee, Arnhem, Naarden, "nieuwe hollandse waterlinie", Maastricht (did you know that the famous d'Artagan was kia there..), Roermond, Arnhem, Deventer, ""Hunebedden", Schokland, Lemmer, Heusden, Doetinchem, Amerongen (German emperor Wilhelm II signed his abdication there on November 28th, 1918), Doorn,
and lots and lots and lots more.
I live in Haarlem, in the west of the country. My city has been protected from the sea by a national park. This park contains some large dunes, and woodlands. One of the highest dunes, where some people also live on, is “Het Kopje van Bloemendaal”. This dune top is 43 meters tall, and covered with forest and some very expensive mansions. The municipality of Bloemendaal being some of the wealthiest places in the Netherlands.
I’m amazed that somebody so far away is so informed and interested about my country The Netherlands!
Australia is all by herself, countries and WW2 history has always been a interest of mine
There are actually a few places where you can hike in the hills (or even mountains) in the Netherlands, particularly in the province of Limburg or Guelders (with the highest points being: Vaalserberg (322m) and Signaal Imbosch (110m) respectively).
There is also Mt. Scenery (887m) on the Dutch Caribbean municipality island of Saba and The Quill (601m) on the Dutch Caribbean municipality island of Sint Eustatius.
In the entire kingdom of the Netherlands you can also visit the Sint-Christoffelberg (371m) on Curaçao, Mount Flagstaff (361m) on Sint Maarten or Jamanota (188m) on Aruba.
Fun fact: The highest point of mainland European Netherlands (Vaalserberg (332m) is higher than that of Denmark (Møllehøj (171m)).
You can carry 5 grams for personal use, you cannot smoke cannibis in public, ww2 destroyed a lot of buildings in Rotterdam, so we have more modern buildings...
No, Rotterdam doesn't have no old buildings from the bombardment, but because the city officials decided that the old city that was bombed would be flattened and a whole new city to be built. It was a choice not to renovate the old buildings to their former state.
Everywhere cities in Europe have been bombed heavily. Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, Warsaw (flattened twice: in 1938 and in 1944). Den Helder was the most bombed city in NL. Nijmegen got bombed by a mistake bombardment by American/British in 1944 (just like Enschede that night). Nijmegen had the same nr of casualties as Rotterdam in 1940, but for a city 5x smaller !
Those cities have the same structure with a lot of old buildings renovated. Only in Rotterdam they decided otherwise. (and, unlike other cities, they cultivated the bombardment 'victimhood' , how the bombardment changed the city. Sorry to mention this, and commisseration with whom had relatives perish at the bombardment. ).
You’re not allowed to cycle on highways or main roads but there is an extensive bicycle park network, everywhere and between every town.
The Netherlands got hammered during WWII, that's true. Although a lot of damage was caused by allied bombing with the aim to bring the occupying power, Nazi Germany, to its knees.
The city of Rotterdam was bombed by Nazi germany in 1940, but for instance The Hague was bombed by the allied forces, as well as Middelburg, Hengelo, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Zutphen and Breskens to name a few (in all, around 600 bombing raids were conducted by the allied forces on the Netherlands).
Terrible part of history
Always love Your channel !!❤️ Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and yes, I've dry feet 😂
Hello there!
I don't speak Spanish or Portuguese, but about Dutch and German: it's not the same. A good number of words are similar (like history: geschiedenis in Dutch and geschichte in German), but a lot of words are completely different as well. Depending on what someone is talking about and which words they use you might get a general idea, but it really depends on the situation. In most Dutch high schools children get German lessons though, so most should have at least a basic understanding of German. Enough to ask for directions, order a meal, that sort of thing.
About us speaking English, there's something called the EF English Proficiency Index, which ranks non-English speaking countries by how proficient it's population is in English. The Netherlands is constantly ranked #1 in that. For one, linguistically Frisian (spoken in the Friesland province) is the closest language to English, and Dutch is the second closest. Besides that we also don't dub foreign tv-shows and movies (except for children) like a lot of other countries do. Instead we use subtitles, which makes it easier to learn another language. Besides that, Dutch children start learning English in school around age 8-10 (some schools start even earlier, from age 4-5) and that continues all the way through highschool. Some people from older generations might struggle a bit, but about everyone under the age of 50 should be able to have a proper conversation in English without too much trouble.
About crime: there's also a lot of drug related crime here. With the harbors of both Rotterdam and Antwerp nearby, the southern part of the Netherlands has a high concentration of drug producing facilities.
About the Netherlands being partially below sea level, not sure if you have seen those vids about the Delta Works, but they might be interesting to check out:
th-cam.com/video/i6DRRHXt-PA/w-d-xo.html (Real Engineering - Why The Netherlands Isn't Under Water)
th-cam.com/video/_LSVNW_bPqs/w-d-xo.html (Hindsight - How the Dutch solved an (almost) Impossible Problem)
th-cam.com/video/76sFFiwPJ9E/w-d-xo.html (Hindsight - How the Dutch Realized this Insane Megaproject
Check out Dutch UNESCO places, Waddenzee, Grachtengordel, Woudagemaal, Kinderdijk and more 🇳🇱🧡
Dutch language is not the same as German, in Holland when you say I call you back in 5 , they do that , and not in aussie 2 days later, and in Holland we curse alot with diseases. This is from a Dutchmen who lives in Aussie.
I live in south- east of the Netherlands in in the province of Limburg.My environment is cerainly not flat but hilly. It is also called the predecessor of the Alps.Every year thousands of people from all over the Netherlands come here with their racing bikes to cycle up the hills.❤👍
we start learning english in school from around the age of 9-10 (from groep 6 of the basisschool for those who know how it works) so yea by the time we turn 18 we should have a proper understanding of the english language (at least for most) even tho most kids will be introduced to it via youtube/social media and games even before that age
When I was in uni in the early 2000’s I had a few courses in English. For one of them we needed to write a paper in teams of two. We asked the professor if we could do it in Dutch since he was Dutch as well. He said we could, but also that he would expect us to be able to write it in English because we were university students. So we did and got a 9 out of 10
We learn English French and German in school ✌️🇳🇱
Not all that proficiently though. I remember, on a scale of 10, scoring an average of a 3 for French (3 years compulsory), a 5 to 6 for German (2 years compulsory) and an 8 to 9 for English (5 to 6 years compulsory). It must be pointed out though that I had no affinity with French at all and my German teacher was a dork. English, however, benefitted me because I could receive British Television channels with sci fi series I wanted to see. So affinity always helps a lot. ;-D
G'Day Tash! Thank-you for this, I'm loving learning about this beautiful country along with you. 😍
More to come!
@@MoreAussieTash yeah please. Look on my channel for playlist the Netherlands, s fewy you might have seen and commented
That viaduct/bridge in the beginning with the tramtracks is 5 min from my home..
Video about Dutch beaches (little old): th-cam.com/video/RvkVKRXqY-4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mKwEue8Ot8oOw-4n
Cheers mate :)
Natuurmonumenten, natuurreservaat, for parks etc in the Netherlands. And yes, we have plenty of beaches as well
Cheers mate :)
Not all the Netherlands is flat as a pancake!! Not at all if you go further than the provinces of Holland....
Go to Gelderland and Limburg.
Will do, great suggestions :)
Too bad the guy ONLY says Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague all the time. Try other cities, like Den Bosch, and many places in Limburg or Groningen or Friesland. And the East of the Netherlands, so much history there as well and many many many beautiful nature
Small cities and towns to come :)
@@MoreAussieTash Den Bosch is not really small. It's the capital of the province I live in, in North Brabant.🥰😃
@MoreAussieTash I was wondering, do you like Eurovision? If so, the entry of the Netherlands is absolutely going viral, maybe it's an idea to watch and comment on it. It's very much out there, I'm obsessed with it, even though the music style is not really mine, I absolutely love it, also because of the history of the singer. Maybe worth a watch?
About the flatness. Yes in the province of Limburg in the south we have rolling hills. But the highest point is just 324 meters high. Most of my country is very flat. You can climb the 'mountain' but you can easily cycle it 😂😂😂
And about our English, it is indeed learned, but so is Dutch. Most people in The Netherlands speak fluently English. The main reason is our TV programs. Many of the shows are spoken in English but we have subtitles. So children easily pick up English just by watching TV. I learned my English with Inspector Gadget and Transformers.
Btw: I'm 6,3 feet tall but that's normal. There are many who are taller than me. 😂
Nope! If you think windmills are just a touristy thing!
Windmills are not JUST for tourists!! From the 17th century on...And even before that: from the 14th century on....In some places....
They where here just to assure we could survive.
People from around the world are not only living in the big cities they are all over the Netherlands, I live in Groningen ✌️🇳🇱
Morning Tash☕️ That was great. Curious how they harvest the tulips, or are the fields just to look beautiful. When I was a little girl we had a family in town that ran the bakery they were from Holland at that time. Once when they went back my friend brought me a pair of wooden clogs, are these still worn? Anyway love learning about the Netherlands maybe someday I’ll get over there! Have a beautiful day🫶
Theres a vid suggestion for us, "how they harvest tulips :)
@@MoreAussieTash awesome 👏
Doing the safety dance while watching an aussie speak 'bout me country
Even Rotterdam that got bombed almost to nothing, and looks very modern today, you can walk around a modern building and find a 300 year old little harbor or a very old church or water tower. You can bike in a 100 year old tunnel underneath the river and still in use. So yes there lots of old buildings left even if they got bombed.
We have a lot of old building: form before christ so same age as stoneHenge in the UK to Roman Empire, spanish occupation, a france influence, and castles and dutch golden age and we preserve a lot. You find that every city has its own charm and style.
Every City have is own style. Veendam, Sneek, Klijndijk nearby Emmen, Zuidlaren. Its not only Amsterdam and Den Hague
as he said in Limburg you have roling hills some pretty high or deep ones !!!!
Not just Limburg, Gelderland and in particulair the Rijk van Nijmegen area and the surroundings of Arnhem are very much like Zuid Limburg or like Cornwall (England) even. And even Drenthe and (west) Brabant have some elevation.
lmao have you any idea how funny that is for someone outside of NL with real mountains and hills, like an Aussie? our land is pretty much a pancake with a few small dents and bumps hah
@@SlowdriftKADM you ever been in limburg ?? i guess not !!!
@@Dutch-linux Of course I have. My grandmother was born there. I've also been over the world to places like New Zealand. Where they have true hills and mountains lol. Ours are just baby hills.
@@Dutch-linux Our highest point is 322m, Australia's highest point is 2228.
In the Netherlands there are still many buildings from the past, but not Rotterdam, during the Second World War the center was bombed flat by the Germans. In Rotterdam history has been wiped away.
Haia Tash, just a suggestion.... try one of the best bands The Netherlands ever had ... The Cats ("One Way Wind" for example) ....they made some great music in the seventies.... love your reactions, you're keeping it real ... love from Delft, The Netherlands 😊
Oh no ! One of my comments about English language in The Netherlands ended up under Albert Kassenaar's comment! One of my two comments there was meant for the wider public 😅
we got more crimes like that .. even murder or kidnapping etc
There is no hill climbing possibilty in The Netherlands, there are no hills in our country, the highest hill is 344 meters
If you whant to see a beutiful landscape , then go to the province ; Friesland with a lot of lakes and beautiful places ,And last but not least, you can drive the distens on a bike. There are a lot of places on the Ijsselmeer . Lemmer - Staveren - Workum - Makkum.
Watch dutch entry eurovision 2024 from Joost Klein - Europapa
Dropping in a few days :)
Cool, i am looking forward for that video and of course like to now if you like it or not? 🤔
Idk if you refered to Sirenal -Wasteland (‘‘No More Mind Games, Why Waste The Time’’),if so kudo's for that! But in any case you're spot on Tash!
I'm Dutch Canadian...yes, we are rude. It's not a "direct" ghing. I discovered upon moving to Canada that we dutch people do not learn common conversation courtesy taught elsewhere...sorry, we're rude (by comparison) and its accurate
Dutch people are NOT rude…we are direct. I have met more rude people from other countries than back home in the Netherlands.
Hi Tash, love your reactions and hope you will be able to checkout our country in real time 😊 .... you should checkout the reaction sites of some expats that moved to The Netherlands (like Soul to Soul Travel or Buncharted - both are couples from the States, but don't let that keep you .....) ..... get some indepth look on the life here combined with humor 😊 ..... love from Delft, The Netherlands
I will check it out
Hiking of course you can but hill climbing only in Limburg I guess. I am from the north and is mosly flat.
And in the war only Rotterdam was bombed so their centre is not that historical anymore but for the rest the historical buildings are still there.
Welkom in Nederland
Really hoping you will react to the Eurovision entry of the Netherlands soon, but thanks for all your content about our country anyway love it so much!!
Chek Kamp Vucht it was a natzi Camp. its close to my home in the netherlands.🙂
Coming soon :)
no!! bikes do not have the rightaway everywhere !!!!!
Vaalserberg is about 300 meters high.
You can dance if you wannoo!
Sometimes in my backyard smoke Cannabis. Never if i walk in the streets and shops. Yess no crime and lot of countrys follow this rule also, offcourse Germany
1. So when you said "can you climb a hill somewhere" did you actually mean a hill? because if so then yes. We have hills, biggest one is 322 meters high, its called the "vaalserberg" but its a hill, not a mountain so you'd probably do no actual climbing but more walking. If you'd look at the total of our kindom, theres an island called Saba which has a vulcano called "mount scenery" Its part of the netherlands but not in the main land. Saba is a special municipality.
2. I had 4 years german class in high school, (that's 8 years ago and never practiced again) and I can understand what they say but cant talk back. Some words sound similar but most of them are too diffrent to understand. We can, for example, perfectly understand flamish and south african.
3. Bikes dont have the right of way everywhere. For example, if you are at a juction as a biker where there's no signs or marks, you have to give the right of way to the person coming from the right (in your own perspective). If you bike on a two way road (on the right side as we do) and you want to go left at a junction, you have to give everything the right of way thats coming at you from the other side. if you have shark teeth as we call them, triangles paited on the road with the poit facing you, you have to give all drivers (including bikers cuz they drive a bike so to speak) the right of way. Just a few examples.
4. We, in our village at least, have something we call a bvo'tje. BVO stands for Bier Voor Onderweg and it translates to "beer for on the road" the tje behind it you can ignore because it basically means little if you put it behind a word but the bvo can be all sizes :). The bvo is a beer you drink when you go to someones house, drink, and then go to a pub. On your way to the pub you take a bvo'tje with you on your bike and you drink while riding it. Or when you are drinking at a friend and you're almost out of beer but another friend still has a few crates with bottles, you take a bvo'tje and you go to their place.
English is just as well a west-Germanic language and Frisian is the closest language to old-English.
Nice and interesting video again
Bikes DO NOT have right of way everywhere. Cyclists also need to conform to various road markings and signals.
At an "equal" intersection traffic coming from the right has right of way. It may very well be a car or truck, so the cyclist will have to wait.
It’s flat as pancake for 95%
why run around the bush and waste time when you can be straight to the point and get more done ..... chit chat is not needed !!
Nijmegen is the oldest city
the word dutch is only used by englich speakers (not very smart people !! ) Nederlanders speak Nederlands .
What BS are you talking about?😂
@@Lilygirl283I can't agree with the "..not very smart.." part but where is the word Dutch coming from?
People from Spain speak Spanish, people from Germany speak German, people from England speak English, people from Turkey speak Turkish, in Italy people speak Italian, Greek in Greece.
Of course it all has to do with history. Dutch probably comes from Deutsch (German). There seems to be a lot of confusion here. For example, Amish. Amish people speak Dutch. They don't! Their language is much more simular to German (Deutsch). Dutch and German share a lot of words, but the language is very different.
(less BS than you aimed at)
Before the 1st and 2nd war not many people spoke English. We spoke mainly Dutch dialect, German and French. The general Dutch language known as Dutch is a sort of agreed dialect coming from Haarlem.
I can hop on my bicycle and cycle for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 hours and the the (tone of) language changes. Go to Brabant, Twente, Groningen or Gelderland and you will have a hard time understanding the language. Go to Zeeland or Limburg and you just won't be able to understand what they're saying!
Of course everyone knows how to speak Dutch, AN (Algemeen Nederlands=General Dutch).
And than we have Friesland! In Friesland people speak Fries(ch)!
That's a separate language, officially! Officially, in the Netherlands, there are two languages! ❤😂
The crime rate is increasing, this video is misleading...
Hahaha.
Jij stemt zeker op de neo nazi partijen.
Volk als jij...verkocht mijn grootouders voor drie knaken.
De enige goede nazi is dood .
Who cares?