Thanks for the efforts in creating the Vlog ...this popped up as I was searching for Amsterdam vlogs .... ....the commentary and pace of your rendition was like a seasoned professional Media person ...AMAZED at the Superlative quality of the commentary in the vlog ...Keep up the Good work ! 👍👍
It is too bad people are not catching your awesomely sarcastic jokes. I busted a gut a couple of times. Well done sir! Anything you didn't get to see that you feel you really missed out on? heading there next week for a similar 2 days.
The biggest things we could have tried to fit into our itinerary if we had been a bit more efficient in our planning was Vondelpark, close to the museums we visited, and North Amsterdam, with a free ferry ride from behind Amsterdam Centraal. The station also has a Sex Museum very close to it that might have been interesting to see. There are really a number of museums that might have been worth exploring. If we had a third day, we would have taken a train out of Amsterdam to visit The Hague. I hope you enjoy your trip!
Ah, good to know. We didn’t research this museum much in advance. For any others reading this thread, can you explain a bit more about what makes it a tourist trap?
0:54 ?? Jordaan = Jordan 🤔😡 not really. Jordan is pronounced short, Jordaan is a long, drawn-out sound. yes how come amsterdam is so dirty?? 80% of this is due to tourists not cleaning up their mess.
If you listen again closely to those segments, you will get the jokes. And, yes, I’m certain tourists being irresponsible is the source of many problems there. Amsterdam is a lovely place.
Bad tour guide. These houses are slanted forward to hoist goods to the warehouse upper floors, these ar all houses of private merchants and private merchants made their money from the European trade, because the Asian trade and the transatlantic trade had monopolies of the VOC and WIC. Those had their own warehouses, so how many VOC and WIC warehouses did you see? None probably because there ever were only a few. The colonial trade was tiny compared to the European trade anyway, and the Dutch did more than half of all European sea trade. That's how they got filthy rich before the colonial entreprise started to return any profts and kept getting richer from the European trade.
The tour guide actually did mention the pulley system of moving items to different floors. The slanting I'm referring to in this video was sideways, not forward, which the guide said was because of uneven sinking on soft flood land. As for the hoisted items, he didn't connect that with any particular trade. The discussion of colonization was separate. The specified reason for the pulley system was because of tax being levied on the basis of a building's width, incentivizing people to build upward, even if it meant the building would be quite thin, making it difficult or impossible to get furniture and other large items up through the ground floor and up inside the building.
@@UnnecessaryTravel Amsterdam was planned city from when it stopped being a fishing village, it was planned as a trade city. So canals were dug and all the plots werer narrow to get as many merchants as possible direct access to the canals. Their living spaces in the same house were secondary, that's not why they were canal side. So what you see at a boat tour is the private merchants houses who were not allowed to trade with Asia or the Americas but who started to fully dominate the European trade in the 1590's and that's where the prosperity came from. The VOC had quite a huge warehouse in Amsterdam, with generally more expensive stuff per volume and weight, but that was outside the city centre and still only a tiny bit of floor space for storage in comparison. Amsterdam tour guides don't have to do an exam or something, and often just make stuff up or follow the fashionalbe and simplistic narrative that the Dutch Republic got rich from colonialism, particularly popular with tourists from former or current empires. The Dutch had started modern capitalism, with upward social mobility, freedom of religion and print, high literacy, high trust in paper and institutions, a de facto central bank for high trust in money and low interests, industrialized shipbuilding with windmill power, specialized small crew merchant ships, and a broad big spending middle class. It was the first modern society and economy no one could compete with for over a century. The colonial past is a dark edge to a quite bright history that doesn't need to be sugarcoated, but these tour guides should not make Amsterdam far less interesting than it really was.
Thank you for sharing this information and perspective. The guide mentioned a number of positive things along these lines about the origins and evolution of Amsterdam. I think the point he was making was that the negative aspects of history must also be acknowledged. It wasn’t to negate the many great things about the city and the Netherlands as a whole.
Such a shame to see how dirty Amsterdam has become over the years. When I was living there 12 years ago, it was a remarkably clean city, just some streets with lots of tourists were a bit dirty. I know the city has problems with collecting garbage, and both locals and tourists make a mess, but I hope they manage to solve these issues so it becomes as clean as it was before. And yeah, service in Amsterdam is not really great either. I think it's better in smaller cities.
That Colonial story is historical untrue, the netherlands made insane amount of money transporting wood from Norway and Sweden into the south of Germany, thousands of boats sailed daily. All the travels travels to the Colonies were all prestige projects and costed the Netherlands a lot of money. Half of all the ships didn't made it back home. We constantly had to fight the English and Portuguese. In 500 years we transported less than can fit in a modern cargo ship today, nowadays about 100 cargo ships load and unload in Amsterdam.
It’s not only the tour guide who mentioned the colonial history, but the Rijksmuseum with its various exhibits. The sources I’ve seen indicate that the Netherlands engaged in slave trade for over 300 years to support its colonial operations.
@@UnnecessaryTravel I am not disputing that the Netherlands has a colonial past with slave trade. I am disputing that is was a financial success. It has also been scientifically proven, we have still lots of logbooks and port administration. Musea probably like the romantic story, the truth about the wood trade is a bit boring.
There is no "fan co".... PLEASE vvvvvan with qa vvvvv g oh gh , g and gh are pronounced like CH in loCHness, o is pronounced like o in dog.... Stop giving the painter a CHINESE name please!!!! No more Fan KO Put some effort into your videos....
Thanks for the efforts in creating the Vlog ...this popped up as I was searching for Amsterdam vlogs .... ....the commentary and pace of your rendition was like a seasoned professional Media person ...AMAZED at the Superlative quality of the commentary in the vlog ...Keep up the Good work ! 👍👍
Thank you so much for your very kind words. We truly appreciate it!
It is too bad people are not catching your awesomely sarcastic jokes. I busted a gut a couple of times. Well done sir!
Anything you didn't get to see that you feel you really missed out on? heading there next week for a similar 2 days.
The biggest things we could have tried to fit into our itinerary if we had been a bit more efficient in our planning was Vondelpark, close to the museums we visited, and North Amsterdam, with a free ferry ride from behind Amsterdam Centraal. The station also has a Sex Museum very close to it that might have been interesting to see. There are really a number of museums that might have been worth exploring. If we had a third day, we would have taken a train out of Amsterdam to visit The Hague. I hope you enjoy your trip!
@@UnnecessaryTravel: sex museum is a tourist trap.
Ah, good to know. We didn’t research this museum much in advance. For any others reading this thread, can you explain a bit more about what makes it a tourist trap?
lovely sights, lovely humor!🤭
Thank you for watching!
Don't forget that the Netherlands only consists of Amsterdam.
Our wealth was based on grain trade with the Baltic, and farming and fishing, the rest was extras.
0:54 ?? Jordaan = Jordan 🤔😡 not really. Jordan is pronounced short, Jordaan is a long, drawn-out sound.
yes how come amsterdam is so dirty?? 80% of this is due to tourists not cleaning up their mess.
If you listen again closely to those segments, you will get the jokes. And, yes, I’m certain tourists being irresponsible is the source of many problems there. Amsterdam is a lovely place.
@@UnnecessaryTravel sorry but i don't like 020, i'm more a 030 guy😉
Thank you for sharing. You have a good personality for sharing in a dynamic way.
I appreciate that!
Bad tour guide. These houses are slanted forward to hoist goods to the warehouse upper floors, these ar all houses of private merchants and private merchants made their money from the European trade, because the Asian trade and the transatlantic trade had monopolies of the VOC and WIC. Those had their own warehouses, so how many VOC and WIC warehouses did you see? None probably because there ever were only a few.
The colonial trade was tiny compared to the European trade anyway, and the Dutch did more than half of all European sea trade. That's how they got filthy rich before the colonial entreprise started to return any profts and kept getting richer from the European trade.
The tour guide actually did mention the pulley system of moving items to different floors. The slanting I'm referring to in this video was sideways, not forward, which the guide said was because of uneven sinking on soft flood land. As for the hoisted items, he didn't connect that with any particular trade. The discussion of colonization was separate. The specified reason for the pulley system was because of tax being levied on the basis of a building's width, incentivizing people to build upward, even if it meant the building would be quite thin, making it difficult or impossible to get furniture and other large items up through the ground floor and up inside the building.
Hear, hear. Bedankt Den Uitvreter. Ik heb je uitleg hierover (VOC en WIC) vaker gelezen. Het gros van de mensen blijft dit verhaal geloven. Jammer.
@@UnnecessaryTravel Amsterdam was planned city from when it stopped being a fishing village, it was planned as a trade city. So canals were dug and all the plots werer narrow to get as many merchants as possible direct access to the canals. Their living spaces in the same house were secondary, that's not why they were canal side. So what you see at a boat tour is the private merchants houses who were not allowed to trade with Asia or the Americas but who started to fully dominate the European trade in the 1590's and that's where the prosperity came from. The VOC had quite a huge warehouse in Amsterdam, with generally more expensive stuff per volume and weight, but that was outside the city centre and still only a tiny bit of floor space for storage in comparison.
Amsterdam tour guides don't have to do an exam or something, and often just make stuff up or follow the fashionalbe and simplistic narrative that the Dutch Republic got rich from colonialism, particularly popular with tourists from former or current empires. The Dutch had started modern capitalism, with upward social mobility, freedom of religion and print, high literacy, high trust in paper and institutions, a de facto central bank for high trust in money and low interests, industrialized shipbuilding with windmill power, specialized small crew merchant ships, and a broad big spending middle class. It was the first modern society and economy no one could compete with for over a century.
The colonial past is a dark edge to a quite bright history that doesn't need to be sugarcoated, but these tour guides should not make Amsterdam far less interesting than it really was.
Thank you for sharing this information and perspective. The guide mentioned a number of positive things along these lines about the origins and evolution of Amsterdam. I think the point he was making was that the negative aspects of history must also be acknowledged. It wasn’t to negate the many great things about the city and the Netherlands as a whole.
Such a shame to see how dirty Amsterdam has become over the years. When I was living there 12 years ago, it was a remarkably clean city, just some streets with lots of tourists were a bit dirty. I know the city has problems with collecting garbage, and both locals and tourists make a mess, but I hope they manage to solve these issues so it becomes as clean as it was before. And yeah, service in Amsterdam is not really great either. I think it's better in smaller cities.
That Colonial story is historical untrue, the netherlands made insane amount of money transporting wood from Norway and Sweden into the south of Germany, thousands of boats sailed daily.
All the travels travels to the Colonies were all prestige projects and costed the Netherlands a lot of money. Half of all the ships didn't made it back home. We constantly had to fight the English and Portuguese.
In 500 years we transported less than can fit in a modern cargo ship today, nowadays about 100 cargo ships load and unload in Amsterdam.
It’s not only the tour guide who mentioned the colonial history, but the Rijksmuseum with its various exhibits. The sources I’ve seen indicate that the Netherlands engaged in slave trade for over 300 years to support its colonial operations.
@@UnnecessaryTravel I am not disputing that the Netherlands has a colonial past with slave trade.
I am disputing that is was a financial success.
It has also been scientifically proven, we have still lots of logbooks and port administration.
Musea probably like the romantic story, the truth about the wood trade is a bit boring.
300+ years seems like a long time for a financially failing operation.
Party town ? There much more to our capital than only the recreational aspects 😂
oude kerk, ou as in now kerk with è like as in pat.. [ow duh k èrk] .
Amsterdam i not dirty by itself, it’s dirty because of the people who don’t give a damn about others.
Very true!
It is Not Kurk, it is kerk with an è...
There is no "fan co".... PLEASE vvvvvan with qa vvvvv g oh gh , g and gh are pronounced like CH in loCHness, o is pronounced like o in dog.... Stop giving the painter a CHINESE name please!!!! No more Fan KO Put some effort into your videos....
Amsterdam???? Go see the real Netherlands!!! Amsterdam smells...