@@somewherestuckinl.a.3239 No, I think Efteling did a better job. I have been in Disney Paris. It is fun. But you wait for hours without entertaining by waiting. By the efteling you also are waiting, but with entertaining. The music is also better. But it is just what you want to see. Disney sure stole ideas. But efteling also stole ideas. I think it is not a problem to help and stimulate each other.
That's just plain wrong. Disney never visited the Efteling and never stole anything. However Disney and the Efteling did work on several projects together and did exchange ideas which is why some attractions are very simular. You might want to actually read up on this before you say things like this which are just plain wrong.
Efteling is the oldest theme park. That said Disney has some fun rides as does efteling . I think that no matter what country your from every theme park has pro's and con's
The Netherlands is also very car friendly, you can get everywhere by car except for some city and town centers where you can walk, bike or take public transport comfortably. Sometimes these video's make it look like Dutch people don't drive cars but they do, almost everyone has a car but sometimes it's nicer to take a bike or public transport.
It's not completely the case 'everyone has a car', depending on how you look at it. Just to clarify for those reading. Technically 'everyone' has a car because of how we share the vehicles. Typically it's 1 car per household. Two cars is much less common, often considered a luxury. This means everybody of that household uses the same car. So technically everybody has a car, but they don't own their own car independently. All people try to find a job that doesn't require a car - if you're able to bike to work that's considered the ultimate luxury. But most households still have at least one car because simply not everything is possible using public transport, even if we would like to.
@@lolololol7573 Actually almost every family that i know has two cars, one for the father and one for the mother usually. I lived with my parents till the age of 21 so we even had 3 cars around the house. i know it's different for people who live in or close to cities, but in towns and villages it's pretty common to have two cars per family.
@@valentijnrozeveld3773 Statistically it’s 1,0 car on average per household in the entire Netherlands according to CBS (Central Buro of Statistics). The highest amount of cars per household is Staphorst with 1,5 cars. The lowest is in Amsterdam with 0,4 cars per household in average.
@@lolololol7573 that's because most people live in or near the city, like I said it's different for people in cities. also, a lot of students can't afford a car.
I recon Giethoorn (the canal village) is basically like Venice. You can go there by car, if I'm not wrong. But within, you can basically only walk or take a boat. Just like Venice, the boats are the cars.
@@TimvanderWeydenBetter be quick then. Group travelling was just allowed by the Chinese government, what means within the next few weeks it will be flooded with 'photographers' again.
The wooden shoes, called klompen: they were not mainly for safety reasons. We're a river land, as stated. That means we have a huge amount of clay-ground. Ever tried to walk on that with shoes? Or boots? You'd have noticed that this is very hard; your shoes keep sticking in the ground. With wooden shoes it's easy however. So, since we are nothing if not a people that loves efficiency....They were used often. But people stopped having veggie gardens of their own, and if they do now, they use other ground to cover the clay. Easier to work on, and to walk on.
It's a bummer they left out some old rockers. Like the Golden Earings (Radar love) or Shocking Blue (Venus). And Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop) Jan de Bont, (Speed) Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner/Wedlock) Etc. ❤
Giethoorn is literally just around the corner here. It does have roads, but the old village is all about waterways, bridges and small paths used for walking or cycling. Well worth a visit. Just as we also have the Weerribbeni-Wieden close by. Northwestern Europe's largest marsh lands nature reserve. They used to be two separate areas. But a few years ago they were joined together, near a small town called Muggenbeet (Mosquitobite). From there Blokzijl is just a few kilometers away. One of the towns that used to be on the Zuiderzee coast. You can still drive across the old sea dike, but it's now in the middle of farmland. Some towns such as Blokzijl and Blankenham still have a cannon placed in there. They were fired in the past to warn for flooding.
7:25 Well, speaking of amusement parks. If you ever go to the Netherlands and want to go to an amusement park, I recommend the Efteling. I think it is the best one. And you can get there by bike, bus or car. 😂 17:35 Cloggs served as safety shoes before the modern ones were created.
In a not-shell: using a road-infrastructure for the Dutch is about moving people and not (only) cars. In principle is the size of a country not important for this way of buiding succesfull infrastructure for cars, bikes and padestrians. In return you get lifeble, walkeble and clean cities. After WW2 the USA choose to create a car-centric country by destroying it's ancient- and well-operating train infrastructure. The rest is history.....
23:07 they said it was onely 1 neighbourhood where i live its just like denmark or germany we go to work with car and jsut live a normal daily life like yall do on tyhe rest of the world we dont have schoolbusses but we bik too school
The village of Giethoorn does have a simple walk and bike path through the village but otherwise relies heavily on its waterways. Like in many countries that (used to) have a lot of swampland, peat was won in this village and tranported by boats. The moats often double as property borders on thats how the village developed as it is now. It was kept this way at first because it did not modernise at the same pace as other bigger villages did and secondly to keep a historic village thst could benefit from toerism. The rest of the Netherland however does not rely heavily on it's waterways. Although we are not car centric most of us do use cars do drive to work and driving in the Netherlands is at large a very satisfying experiance not dispite but because we are not car centric (less cars, means less conjestion, see not-just-bikes video's). In large city areas you are better off to travel by foot, bike or (in comparison) excellent public transit (trams, metro, trains, busses, ferries and the like). Public transit in the Neherlands (and most of Europe) is fast, easy, timely and frequent. So in short, Giethoorn exist and does primaraly use waterways but it is an exception.
This is a video about how driving is so nice in the Netherlands. We don't hate cars necessarily, but it is just very inefficient to drive your car to a place where cycling/walking/public transport would be faster. This video does explain that having more options to travel decreases traffic jams and makes driving more enjoyable: th-cam.com/video/d8RRE2rDw4k/w-d-xo.html
You’re about to be bombardet with video requests about the Efteling, I guess you asked for it 😂 And yeah you can drive there they have a huge parking lot.
One of the islands above the Netherlands has a festival for a few days every year in June (always around my birthday). 50 000 people a year come there (Oerol)
Much of Europe is not car focused. I usually only visit major cities, and the train systems and public transportation are often excellent and so much more relaxing and easier than driving. I haven’t been to Netherlands yet, tho my hubby has and it’s so easy to get around. His friends live in the country and they do have a car, but his wife bicycles to work around an hour every day. They just think differently about transport and exercise I think:) North American countries and cities are planned much differently.
Europe is really car centric (not as much in major cities but still) even though MUCH less than most of North America. "Most" because there are some exceptions on the east coast, most notably New-York.
@@miles5600 I've never been. Going this weekend. I'm from France, in Montréal right now, which is also kind of walkable. I mean I know that Montréal is not like a European city (well... depends on which country and which individual city) but you can live there without a car. As for NYC I have not experienced it but it has kind of the same reputation.
As I said, I only tend to go to major cities. All walkable and getting more so with many streets becoming pedestrianized. I didn’t say there weren’t cars, but folks tend to use public transportation a lot more as it’s much easier and less costly.
@@vjscott4240 Another thing is that the centres are really well served by PT, but the suburbs are much more sprawling (still less than in the US) and tend to have less frequent PT. People living in single families homes in the suburbs tend to take far less the PT especially because those tend to have more money than those that live in poorer suburbs in apartment complexes. At least this is the French reality. I know that French cities have been much more sprawling during the late 20th century than, say, Spanish ones. I once found a map of Europe with the type of homes the majority live in in each country and France was one of the very few in western Europe where it was detached house
Hahah we have many water here. But most people go by bike, train or car to there work. Maybe a very small percentage is going by boat. I am going by car it is about 25 miles. The Netherlands has one of the best infrastructures for cars, bikes and trains in the world. I think you can find plenty of videos about it.
Ofcourse you can take your car to the amusementparks. They have big carparks. But often the citycenters are easier to reach by bike or walking. And if you ever come to The Hague go and also visit the Panorama Mesdag. That's a painting of 120meters in circumfrance and 14 meters high, and you are standing in the middle of it, feeling like you stepped back in time to Scheveningen in 1880.
Think you guys will love driving here. Then also get the option to cycle when you want. That’s the difference. We can choose to cycle or drive. Most other places you don’t get the choice
Never heard of "the walden islands" though, i do know "de Wadden eilanden". Philips is still located in Eindhoven in the Netherlands thought they also had an smaller location until 2004 in hasselt. The Efteling started a long time ago as a theme park, about fairytales, later there were attractions added like roller-coasters. One of the founders of the efteling was Anton Pieck, he was the designer of the fairytale forest, with tales like snow-white and some 10 others. You should really go there if you visit the Netherlands,
We have cars, as mentioned by another viewer. A lot of people are going by bike to work, or going to the train and take the bike into the train. So we have cars, busses, tains, metro, motorbikes, mopeds, underground.... Have fun with exprloring.
Fun fact, in the Netherlands, we can drive, bike and walk, to America, without having to cross the ocean. It's a place in the Netherlands, just like Holland used to be a place in the USA, before it sunk. lol. Heck, we can go to a swizz place, without leaving the country, as well. Heh, a landyacht, funny that that clip showed a drawn picture of one of the oldest ones, form the 80 year war with Spain. As for the G don't think the G of Gould, but the G of Gold, when saying Gouda, is yellow, not grey. lol Windmill waterpump/sawmill/grain-mill, ect, ect. All wind powered. Just that we have a few windmills, does not mean they all where waterpumps.
Hi there, You look like a great couple! About the Netherlands. We do have many canals, rivers, lakes etc but we don't go to work, school etc, by boat. We do love cars. I myself are a car guy. I love driving. We have a dense network of highways. But what's different here is that pretty every driver is a cyclist. We have a vast network of bike paths separate from the roads. For short trips, Lets say, going for an errand or something we bike or walk. For longer distances we take the car or use public transportation. You should check the channel Not Just Bikes. It's from a Canadian guy who lives in The Netherlands.
There are also some that actually do drive long distances. One example being my late grandfather's brother (great uncle to me I believe?) Anyway he lives in Drenthe (East) and up to his 60's he cycled to my grandparents in Holland (West)
We don't *drop* on a boat, people have cars but the difference between the netherlands and the US is that the public transportation system is very good, and everybody owns a bike, since its a small country the bike is a perfect transportation system.
We love to brag about our love of cycling.. And yes we do have on average 1,5 bike per person. But we cycle mostly in our own town or city. In between cities we mostly drive, The Netherlands does have one of the densest road and motorway network. One of the big differences is that bikepaths and roads/streets for cars are often separate, with cars being blocked from driving true innercities and having to go around. This way cycling within cities is really save and it’s often faster to cycle than to drive..
Actually the oldest stock exchange was in Antwerp Belgium dated 1460 under philip the good, It was replaced in 1531as the Old Exchange on Hofstraat had become too small. It was the first exchange ever built specifically for this use, and became the model for other exchanges all over the world. The building, which was designed by the Antwerp architect, Domien De Waghemakere (1460-1542), burnt down on two occasions, in 1583 and 1858. (Just FYI and for the critics i know Belgium got only formed in 1830 but still we gotta take proud in it)
The Belgium exchange was not a stock exchange but a trade exchange. The world's first issued stocks were of the VOC and they got exchanged on the Amsterdam stock exchange.
the ou is pronounced like the ou in pronounced :D. about the G, don't bother learning non-dutch speakers how to pronounce it, even half of the dutch people can't :P
Im born there but my German grandmother who lived almost 50 years in The Netherlands couldn't pronounce the G. My granddad can but he started a company here and got Dutch lessons. My nan learned speaking Dutch at the supermarket. Funny thing is that my nans grammar was excellent compared to my granddad who was good lol
we have cars in the Netherlands and i think most households own a car i even have an america car (chevy) but we don't have to drive our car every day, i'll jump on my bike to go to work (i'm a truck driver) and a lot of dutchies going to their work by bike and if you live in a city you realy don't have to own a car and if i'll be honest, i realy don't need a car here you can go to the shops or whatever you need by bike and if you need to go furder the public transportation is realy good too but to have your own car is just easy and you're free to go anywhere you want, our cars are just a lot smaller the the average car in the states and that has everything to do with road tax....the havier the car the more you pay for your road tax and if you thing your gas price is high,just double that price and you're still have cheaper gas than over here but we also like cars but we don't realy need them
If you want to take a car to a amusement park, just be early :) That's all, see, it's easy. If you have to be later, no problem, you just might need to walk a tiny bit longer or you might be lucky and there is a dedicated bus to take you to the entrance from the parking lot. But usually, you'll be fine, no worries
Yes. I wake up, put on my flippers and snorkel, and hop in my canoe. At my job they have a crane which lifts me and the canoe out of the water and parks us in the canoe parking spot. As far as I know like 90% of all the country travels by canoe, the rest either swims or goes by jetpack. It's not easy, but it keeps us in shape!!!
Very nice, very factual, and very correct. Just 'Walden islands' should be 'Wadden islands' (9:28). It has nothing to do with Walden Media or whatever, but 'wad' stands for muddy shallow. Extremely unpleasant to be ther in a boat during a storm. 'Holland' is just a hypocorism, like 'Blighty' is for the English. 'The Netherlands' is rather formal, so using 'Holland' is quite OK. The US president visits The Netherlands', Americans visit 'Holland'. The royal palace in Amsterdam is not *the* royal palace. It's one of the royal palaces, owned by the state, and made available to the royal houshold. The Amsterdam palace is the official state reception palace. Paleis Noordeinde iin The Hague is the royal business palace. The royal family lives in Huis ten Bosch in The Hague. Reclaimig land actually started with draining the Purmer Lake, Neemster Lake, Purmer Lake and Schermer Lake. These large lakes threatened the nearby cities like Amsterdam during westerly storms. DJ Armin van Buuren is a distant relative of the Dutch royals. The latter hold the title of Earls of Buren since 1551. Don't go to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Too crowded, long waiting lines. Besides, the majority of Van Gogh's paintings are in Otterlo, on the other side of Holland. Gin was actually invented in today Belgium.
Well, mostly people that actually live in Holland are quite OK with saying Holland instead of the Netherlands. But that is mostly because they are not aware that there is actually more country outside their city limits. Talk to people outside Holland and many are annoyed quite a bit. Not for the tourists saying Holland, but for the Hollanders that seem to forget that most Dutch people do NOT live in Holland and most of the Netherlands is NOT Holland.
@@vogel2280 Well, I live in Holland. Just not in Noord-Holland or Zuid-Holland. But I surmise you refer to 'Randstad'. Which is a conurbation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht, covering the western half of The Netherlands. A third to a half of the Dutch population lives in the Randstad.
The official Dutch government policy is now not to use Holland as a substitute for the Netherlands. Edit: You can drive to all the sights. Well, not the ones in Amsterdam, or I wouldn't advise you to drive a car in the city center. You're likely to hit tourists on bikes or on foot standing in the middle of streets. Also I was in a Texas supermarket and asked a guy if the had any gouda cheese and he told me it was pronounced goodah. I told him no... Ietsism is what he means. Iets means something, so somethingism (I don't know if there's a god or not but there's something). I grew up with clogs, tiny clogs when we were kids. We could run in them. And my dad always used them for gardening. It's hard to cut a toe off while gardening when in clogs. And easy to put a spade in the ground. The town with the canals 'only' has roads to get there and public transport going there as well. You can walk around most of it too.
If you come to the Netherlands please look past Amsterdam. We have some actual clogmuseums where they make clogs. Not those ugly yellow painted machine made ones you get in Amsterdam.
Gouda in American, how-duh in Dutch/Netherlands and gow-duh in German (gow like g-OW!) I know the German way of saying it because I dated a woman in Berlin for a few years.
haha they have paddleboats, we not that backward guys the boat have motors and the town is small (2805 population) and its only the centre as the town grew they got roads. its not goodah cheese its pronounced the same as the english word house
Giethoorn is the canal village. I think the nickname “Dutch Venice” is a little misleading. Venice is an old city with a lot of cultural highlights. Giethoorn is a rural village. I grew up near Giethoorn and we went there in the weekend and on holidays. Nowadays there is a lot of international tourism. We could have never imagined that people from Asia and America would visit that small vilage. Nowadays it crowded with tourists. For an impression you could watch a video about Giethoorn. th-cam.com/video/fjZxugQlzXo/w-d-xo.html
Hi Dems... nice reaction vid. Don't be fooled... Don't actually think "Giethoorn" doesn't have roads... that info is actually false. The main part of the village actually doesn't have the canals, yet it's the outer parts of the village that have most houses bordering small canals and waterways... What is rarely shown in this kind of vids though is the fact that most (if not all) of these houses have some kind of bridge as an access to a road. They are just most often photographed and captured from the opposite sides (that doesn't show those bridges) Another myth this video highlighted was the fact that The Netherlands have the tallest people on earth... actually (according to my own research) Lithuania tops that, thus Basketball being Lithuania's top national sport. Y'all are welcome to come visit. Keep up the good work.
No one in the world can say the G like we dutch do, but thanks for trying. We say it like growling; Grrrrr... everbody says rrrrrrrr. It was effective when we needed a password for the germans back in 1940/1945. Gouda, Groningen, 's Gravenhagen (den Haag) 's hertogenbosch😂❤ Good video, i am enjoying it😊
The "ou" in gouda is pronounced "ow!" You know when u stub your toe or something The "g" You put the back of your tongue against the top of your mouth And then just let air flow through
gouda the hard ''G'' first and the ''ou'' part is pronounced like what you call out then you hurt yourself ''auw'' the ''da'' part ,,,, the ''a'' in da is pronounced like the ''a'' in the word pArt or Astronomie so that makes it more or less Gauwda i hope this will help you guy,s a bit
@@TheDemouchetsREACTit's normal but 'Goudse Kaas' is boujie and expensive-even here in the Netherlands. If you can eat Gouda cheese on the daily, you have euros to spend 😂. Another thing about the Dutch: they love to guess how much money people have. A neighbour buys a new car and it's:"hmmm...things must go really well..." But ask a Dutch person how much money the make and they give you the 'none of your business' death-stare. It's funny because the Dutch who are wealthy, are reluctant to 'flaunt' it(except in the big cities). They know if they step out with their LV-bag, they are gonna get stares from equally wealthy people who are more calvinist about their money. It's the whole 'act normal' thing. Which means: don't make a 'spectacle of yourself'. I call it covert envy😂
so when visiting the netherlands and wanting to go to a amusement park the most known is Walibi Holland. but you could also check out the Efteling and many more. next to walibi Holland is a big piece of land where the biggest festival in the Netherlands takes place Defqon.1 my absolute fav festival out there. i highly recommend you 2 to watch a video or 2 about Defqon.1
Efteling is a older parc then Disney. Disney took inspiration from the Netherlands. ;-)
@somewherestuckinl.a.3239 no its not, It's being renovated now, disney still stole our ideas though..😂😂
@@somewherestuckinl.a.3239Walt Disney I fisted the Efteling and got inspired to make Disney get your facts straight
@@somewherestuckinl.a.3239 No, I think Efteling did a better job. I have been in Disney Paris. It is fun. But you wait for hours without entertaining by waiting. By the efteling you also are waiting, but with entertaining. The music is also better. But it is just what you want to see. Disney sure stole ideas. But efteling also stole ideas. I think it is not a problem to help and stimulate each other.
That's just plain wrong.
Disney never visited the Efteling and never stole anything.
However Disney and the Efteling did work on several projects together and did exchange ideas which is why some attractions are very simular.
You might want to actually read up on this before you say things like this which are just plain wrong.
Efteling is the oldest theme park. That said Disney has some fun rides as does efteling . I think that no matter what country your from every theme park has pro's and con's
The Netherlands is also very car friendly, you can get everywhere by car except for some city and town centers where you can walk, bike or take public transport comfortably. Sometimes these video's make it look like Dutch people don't drive cars but they do, almost everyone has a car but sometimes it's nicer to take a bike or public transport.
Or just easier/faster.
It's not completely the case 'everyone has a car', depending on how you look at it. Just to clarify for those reading.
Technically 'everyone' has a car because of how we share the vehicles. Typically it's 1 car per household. Two cars is much less common, often considered a luxury. This means everybody of that household uses the same car. So technically everybody has a car, but they don't own their own car independently.
All people try to find a job that doesn't require a car - if you're able to bike to work that's considered the ultimate luxury. But most households still have at least one car because simply not everything is possible using public transport, even if we would like to.
@@lolololol7573 Actually almost every family that i know has two cars, one for the father and one for the mother usually. I lived with my parents till the age of 21 so we even had 3 cars around the house.
i know it's different for people who live in or close to cities, but in towns and villages it's pretty common to have two cars per family.
@@valentijnrozeveld3773 Statistically it’s 1,0 car on average per household in the entire Netherlands according to CBS (Central Buro of Statistics). The highest amount of cars per household is Staphorst with 1,5 cars. The lowest is in Amsterdam with 0,4 cars per household in average.
@@lolololol7573 that's because most people live in or near the city, like I said it's different for people in cities. also, a lot of students can't afford a car.
I recon Giethoorn (the canal village) is basically like Venice. You can go there by car, if I'm not wrong. But within, you can basically only walk or take a boat. Just like Venice, the boats are the cars.
I can confirm the car park is never more than a 5 minutes walk away.
Only in the old part you can't drive into but around it there are normal roads and modern houses. They just only show the old part.
Giethoorn, Venice of the North. 🙂 It has been 25 years ago I was there. Maybe I should visit again. 😅
@@TimvanderWeydenBetter be quick then. Group travelling was just allowed by the Chinese government, what means within the next few weeks it will be flooded with 'photographers' again.
Going by car to Venice (IT)? Unless your car is also a boat, that ain't happening. Venice is an actual city on water.
10:56 the dutch also invented wifi and bluetooth!
The wooden shoes, called klompen: they were not mainly for safety reasons. We're a river land, as stated. That means we have a huge amount of clay-ground. Ever tried to walk on that with shoes? Or boots? You'd have noticed that this is very hard; your shoes keep sticking in the ground. With wooden shoes it's easy however. So, since we are nothing if not a people that loves efficiency....They were used often. But people stopped having veggie gardens of their own, and if they do now, they use other ground to cover the clay. Easier to work on, and to walk on.
It's a bummer they left out some old rockers. Like the Golden Earings (Radar love) or Shocking Blue (Venus). And Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop) Jan de Bont, (Speed) Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner/Wedlock) Etc. ❤
Dutch people are one of the most confident folks ive personally interacted with!!
Arrogant not confident
@@irma567 sometimes, there's no difference
@@irma567 We might be small but our nuts are big hahaha
@@irma567arrogance is just extra confidence.
Giethoorn is literally just around the corner here. It does have roads, but the old village is all about waterways, bridges and small paths used for walking or cycling. Well worth a visit. Just as we also have the Weerribbeni-Wieden close by. Northwestern Europe's largest marsh lands nature reserve. They used to be two separate areas. But a few years ago they were joined together, near a small town called Muggenbeet (Mosquitobite).
From there Blokzijl is just a few kilometers away. One of the towns that used to be on the Zuiderzee coast. You can still drive across the old sea dike, but it's now in the middle of farmland. Some towns such as Blokzijl and Blankenham still have a cannon placed in there. They were fired in the past to warn for flooding.
Giethoorn is pronounce geet horn at best in English.
Correct...I live around the corner too 😊
7:25 Well, speaking of amusement parks. If you ever go to the Netherlands and want to go to an amusement park, I recommend the Efteling. I think it is the best one. And you can get there by bike, bus or car. 😂
17:35 Cloggs served as safety shoes before the modern ones were created.
In a not-shell: using a road-infrastructure for the Dutch is about moving people and not (only) cars. In principle is the size of a country not important for this way of buiding succesfull infrastructure for cars, bikes and padestrians. In return you get lifeble, walkeble and clean cities. After WW2 the USA choose to create a car-centric country by destroying it's ancient- and well-operating train infrastructure. The rest is history.....
There was nothing told about the inventions. bluetooth, wifi, microscoop for excample. ASML.
Yup, share your corrections.
Found this video today, love you guys, subsribed and watching more of your stuff next!
Much love! Welcome to the family!
Huehue, to be fair, we celebrate the king's birthday just so we have an excuse to party. Hahaha.
Guilty as charged xD I like that day for the day off it provides me lol
And coronations are fun, too. Party party.
23:07
they said it was onely 1 neighbourhood where i live its just like denmark or germany we go to work with car and jsut live a normal daily life like yall do on tyhe rest of the world we dont have schoolbusses but we bik too
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The village of Giethoorn does have a simple walk and bike path through the village but otherwise relies heavily on its waterways. Like in many countries that (used to) have a lot of swampland, peat was won in this village and tranported by boats. The moats often double as property borders on thats how the village developed as it is now. It was kept this way at first because it did not modernise at the same pace as other bigger villages did and secondly to keep a historic village thst could benefit from toerism. The rest of the Netherland however does not rely heavily on it's waterways. Although we are not car centric most of us do use cars do drive to work and driving in the Netherlands is at large a very satisfying experiance not dispite but because we are not car centric (less cars, means less conjestion, see not-just-bikes video's). In large city areas you are better off to travel by foot, bike or (in comparison) excellent public transit (trams, metro, trains, busses, ferries and the like). Public transit in the Neherlands (and most of Europe) is fast, easy, timely and frequent.
So in short, Giethoorn exist and does primaraly use waterways but it is an exception.
This is a video about how driving is so nice in the Netherlands. We don't hate cars necessarily, but it is just very inefficient to drive your car to a place where cycling/walking/public transport would be faster. This video does explain that having more options to travel decreases traffic jams and makes driving more enjoyable: th-cam.com/video/d8RRE2rDw4k/w-d-xo.html
You’re about to be bombardet with video requests about the Efteling, I guess you asked for it 😂 And yeah you can drive there they have a huge parking lot.
lol We did huh?
One of the islands above the Netherlands has a festival for a few days every year in June (always around my birthday). 50 000 people a year come there (Oerol)
Much of Europe is not car focused. I usually only visit major cities, and the train systems and public transportation are often excellent and so much more relaxing and easier than driving. I haven’t been to Netherlands yet, tho my hubby has and it’s so easy to get around. His friends live in the country and they do have a car, but his wife bicycles to work around an hour every day. They just think differently about transport and exercise I think:) North American countries and cities are planned much differently.
Europe is really car centric (not as much in major cities but still) even though MUCH less than most of North America. "Most" because there are some exceptions on the east coast, most notably New-York.
@@miles5600 I've never been. Going this weekend. I'm from France, in Montréal right now, which is also kind of walkable.
I mean I know that Montréal is not like a European city (well... depends on which country and which individual city) but you can live there without a car. As for NYC I have not experienced it but it has kind of the same reputation.
As I said, I only tend to go to major cities. All walkable and getting more so with many streets becoming pedestrianized. I didn’t say there weren’t cars, but folks tend to use public transportation a lot more as it’s much easier and less costly.
@@miles5600 Yeah, I just learned about this place doing my research
@@vjscott4240 Another thing is that the centres are really well served by PT, but the suburbs are much more sprawling (still less than in the US) and tend to have less frequent PT. People living in single families homes in the suburbs tend to take far less the PT especially because those tend to have more money than those that live in poorer suburbs in apartment complexes.
At least this is the French reality. I know that French cities have been much more sprawling during the late 20th century than, say, Spanish ones.
I once found a map of Europe with the type of homes the majority live in in each country and France was one of the very few in western Europe where it was detached house
Hahah we have many water here. But most people go by bike, train or car to there work. Maybe a very small percentage is going by boat. I am going by car it is about 25 miles. The Netherlands has one of the best infrastructures for cars, bikes and trains in the world. I think you can find plenty of videos about it.
Ofcourse you can take your car to the amusementparks. They have big carparks.
But often the citycenters are easier to reach by bike or walking. And if you ever come to The Hague go and also visit the Panorama Mesdag. That's a painting of 120meters in circumfrance and 14 meters high, and you are standing in the middle of it, feeling like you stepped back in time to Scheveningen in 1880.
No u can go anywhere u want with a car still but you juist dont have 2 a lot of the time its juist faster witch a bike in the cities that is
Hey nice to see u interesting in the netherlands, did u know about the company ASML then u know how important the dutch are👌 great videos
I'm Dutch and I never heard of ASML... What did I miss? O.o
12:38 Almost. :) You pronounce the "ou" in "Gouda" as the "o" in "now". 🙂
Think you guys will love driving here. Then also get the option to cycle when you want. That’s the difference. We can choose to cycle or drive. Most other places you don’t get the choice
Also, try finding some TH-cam video’s about the Efteling. There are many
Never heard of "the walden islands" though, i do know "de Wadden eilanden".
Philips is still located in Eindhoven in the Netherlands thought they also had an smaller location until 2004 in hasselt.
The Efteling started a long time ago as a theme park, about fairytales, later there were attractions added like roller-coasters.
One of the founders of the efteling was Anton Pieck, he was the designer of the fairytale forest, with tales like snow-white and some 10 others.
You should really go there if you visit the Netherlands,
Walden Islands is the English name I think. Also the Efteling started as a small walking park witha few fairytale statues ;)
We have cars, as mentioned by another viewer. A lot of people are going by bike to work, or going to the train and take the bike into the train. So we have cars, busses, tains, metro, motorbikes, mopeds, underground.... Have fun with exprloring.
Which country is the best to drive a car?? Watch 'not just bikes'.
Fun fact, in the Netherlands, we can drive, bike and walk, to America, without having to cross the ocean.
It's a place in the Netherlands, just like Holland used to be a place in the USA, before it sunk. lol.
Heck, we can go to a swizz place, without leaving the country, as well.
Heh, a landyacht, funny that that clip showed a drawn picture of one of the oldest ones, form the 80 year war with Spain.
As for the G don't think the G of Gould, but the G of Gold, when saying Gouda, is yellow, not grey. lol
Windmill waterpump/sawmill/grain-mill, ect, ect.
All wind powered.
Just that we have a few windmills, does not mean they all where waterpumps.
Hi there, You look like a great couple! About the Netherlands. We do have many canals, rivers, lakes etc but we don't go to work, school etc, by boat. We do love cars. I myself are a car guy. I love driving. We have a dense network of highways. But what's different here is that pretty every driver is a cyclist. We have a vast network of bike paths separate from the roads. For short trips, Lets say, going for an errand or something we bike or walk. For longer distances we take the car or use public transportation. You should check the channel Not Just Bikes. It's from a Canadian guy who lives in The Netherlands.
Thank you for sharing.😊
There are also some that actually do drive long distances. One example being my late grandfather's brother (great uncle to me I believe?) Anyway he lives in Drenthe (East) and up to his 60's he cycled to my grandparents in Holland (West)
We don't *drop* on a boat, people have cars but the difference between the netherlands and the US is that the public transportation system is very good, and everybody owns a bike, since its a small country the bike is a perfect transportation system.
We love to brag about our love of cycling.. And yes we do have on average 1,5 bike per person. But we cycle mostly in our own town or city. In between cities we mostly drive, The Netherlands does have one of the densest road and motorway network. One of the big differences is that bikepaths and roads/streets for cars are often separate, with cars being blocked from driving true innercities and having to go around. This way cycling within cities is really save and it’s often faster to cycle than to drive..
Philips was not invented in Belgium, but in Eindhoven what is in the south of the Netherlands
The company was founded in eindhoven. The cassette tape was invented in Belgium. That's what they said in the video.
@@GullibleTarget also in Eindhoven, Hasselt was a production plant
The place where there are the waterways is only a very very small part called Giethoorn.
Actually the oldest stock exchange was in Antwerp Belgium dated 1460 under philip the good, It was replaced in 1531as the Old Exchange on Hofstraat had become too small. It was the first exchange ever built specifically for this use, and became the model for other exchanges all over the world. The building, which was designed by the Antwerp architect, Domien De Waghemakere (1460-1542), burnt down on two occasions, in 1583 and 1858. (Just FYI and for the critics i know Belgium got only formed in 1830 but still we gotta take proud in it)
The Belgium exchange was not a stock exchange but a trade exchange. The world's first issued stocks were of the VOC and they got exchanged on the Amsterdam stock exchange.
@@JanJaapZwaag must have been misinformed than for some time .. that was what i was taught back in the day 😅. Good to know
Gouda is not hard to pronouns. The G, then stump your toe, and then the 'da'... Gouda.
yes, but pronounce the G like you need to get something out of your throat, please
@@caennanu haha yes!
the ou is pronounced like the ou in pronounced :D. about the G, don't bother learning non-dutch speakers how to pronounce it, even half of the dutch people can't :P
@@spijkie83 hahah, you are totally right haha.
Im born there but my German grandmother who lived almost 50 years in The Netherlands couldn't pronounce the G. My granddad can but he started a company here and got Dutch lessons. My nan learned speaking Dutch at the supermarket. Funny thing is that my nans grammar was excellent compared to my granddad who was good lol
we have cars in the Netherlands and i think most households own a car i even have an america car (chevy) but we don't have to drive our car every day, i'll jump on my bike to go to work (i'm a truck driver) and a lot of dutchies going to their work by bike and if you live in a city you realy don't have to own a car and if i'll be honest, i realy don't need a car here you can go to the shops or whatever you need by bike and if you need to go furder the public transportation is realy good too but to have your own car is just easy and you're free to go anywhere you want, our cars are just a lot smaller the the average car in the states and that has everything to do with road tax....the havier the car the more you pay for your road tax and if you thing your gas price is high,just double that price and you're still have cheaper gas than over here but we also like cars but we don't realy need them
If you want to take a car to a amusement park, just be early :) That's all, see, it's easy. If you have to be later, no problem, you just might need to walk a tiny bit longer or you might be lucky and there is a dedicated bus to take you to the entrance from the parking lot. But usually, you'll be fine, no worries
I rent out boats in Giethoorn, teach them how to operate the boats, and I sail in tour boats, explaining about the village.
I lived in the Netherlands for 5 years ❤❤❤ in a city about 45 minutes from Rotterdam.
You did not say it out loud, but I saw on his face he was wondering "what colour were carrots before?". The answer is: white.
and purple also!
And yellow
Proud to be dutch💪
Yess i from Groningen, And under sea gas also
Yes. I wake up, put on my flippers and snorkel, and hop in my canoe. At my job they have a crane which lifts me and the canoe out of the water and parks us in the canoe parking spot. As far as I know like 90% of all the country travels by canoe, the rest either swims or goes by jetpack. It's not easy, but it keeps us in shape!!!
I from the Nederlandse i like bike is pity good for you. like the video.
most hose holds own 2 cars so there are alot of cars also
Very nice, very factual, and very correct.
Just 'Walden islands' should be 'Wadden islands' (9:28). It has nothing to do with Walden Media or whatever, but 'wad' stands for muddy shallow. Extremely unpleasant to be ther in a boat during a storm.
'Holland' is just a hypocorism, like 'Blighty' is for the English. 'The Netherlands' is rather formal, so using 'Holland' is quite OK. The US president visits The Netherlands', Americans visit 'Holland'.
The royal palace in Amsterdam is not *the* royal palace. It's one of the royal palaces, owned by the state, and made available to the royal houshold. The Amsterdam palace is the official state reception palace. Paleis Noordeinde iin The Hague is the royal business palace. The royal family lives in Huis ten Bosch in The Hague.
Reclaimig land actually started with draining the Purmer Lake, Neemster Lake, Purmer Lake and Schermer Lake. These large lakes threatened the nearby cities like Amsterdam during westerly storms.
DJ Armin van Buuren is a distant relative of the Dutch royals. The latter hold the title of Earls of Buren since 1551.
Don't go to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Too crowded, long waiting lines. Besides, the majority of Van Gogh's paintings are in Otterlo, on the other side of Holland.
Gin was actually invented in today Belgium.
Well, mostly people that actually live in Holland are quite OK with saying Holland instead of the Netherlands. But that is mostly because they are not aware that there is actually more country outside their city limits. Talk to people outside Holland and many are annoyed quite a bit. Not for the tourists saying Holland, but for the Hollanders that seem to forget that most Dutch people do NOT live in Holland and most of the Netherlands is NOT Holland.
@@vogel2280 Well, I live in Holland. Just not in Noord-Holland or Zuid-Holland.
But I surmise you refer to 'Randstad'. Which is a conurbation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag and Utrecht, covering the western half of The Netherlands. A third to a half of the Dutch population lives in the Randstad.
@@_PJW_ half the country? those 3 provinces together are 6.850km2 of the total landmass of 33.671km2. That is 20%
@@vogel2280 Actually it is 7,594.21 km² of 41.543 km², making it 18.3%
But the map image makes it look different.
@@_PJW_ Statics can vary depending on things like calculating landmass with or without water bodies, such as lakes and rivers.
The official Dutch government policy is now not to use Holland as a substitute for the Netherlands.
Edit: You can drive to all the sights. Well, not the ones in Amsterdam, or I wouldn't advise you to drive a car in the city center. You're likely to hit tourists on bikes or on foot standing in the middle of streets.
Also I was in a Texas supermarket and asked a guy if the had any gouda cheese and he told me it was pronounced goodah. I told him no...
Ietsism is what he means. Iets means something, so somethingism (I don't know if there's a god or not but there's something).
I grew up with clogs, tiny clogs when we were kids. We could run in them. And my dad always used them for gardening. It's hard to cut a toe off while gardening when in clogs. And easy to put a spade in the ground.
The town with the canals 'only' has roads to get there and public transport going there as well. You can walk around most of it too.
Dont forget the parking fees in inner city Amsterdam lmao 😂
Texans are funny people 😂
where English speaking people struggle with the Dutch G, the Dutch don't have "th" so we speak it as "d"
Personally, I pronounce th. But I may have an unfair advantage as I grew up with an Irish stepfather... 🤔
@@Jaezrar ..you answered it yourself...
If you come to the Netherlands please look past Amsterdam. We have some actual clogmuseums where they make clogs. Not those ugly yellow painted machine made ones you get in Amsterdam.
giethoorn , people should know , 1 bicycles , 2 the outer ring around giethoorn does have roads , 3 boats.
the animal crossing bridges is a EU wide thing - it's a regulatory requirements in forested/nature areas
Kind of yeah, it's really only seen on the most recent roads though.
oh i love being dutch and just watch people react to my birth country 💖
Gouda in American, how-duh in Dutch/Netherlands and gow-duh in German (gow like g-OW!)
I know the German way of saying it because I dated a woman in Berlin for a few years.
hell yes, we love the belgian!
But the Belgiums don't like us that much 😄
The Dutch own more bicycles than people, and yes in Uithoorn, some people take the boat, but the bike and boat could be combined 😂
i go to my work whit bicycle, and than by train (than again bycicle) 😃 so why need a car?
I go everywhere with the car, it is just 1 small village without roads
haha they have paddleboats, we not that backward guys the boat have motors and the town is small (2805 population) and its only the centre as the town grew they got roads. its not goodah cheese its pronounced the same as the english word house
Giethoorn is the canal village. I think the nickname “Dutch Venice” is a little misleading. Venice is an old city with a lot of cultural highlights. Giethoorn is a rural village. I grew up near Giethoorn and we went there in the weekend and on holidays. Nowadays there is a lot of international tourism. We could have never imagined that people from Asia and America would visit that small vilage. Nowadays it crowded with tourists. For an impression you could watch a video about Giethoorn.
th-cam.com/video/fjZxugQlzXo/w-d-xo.html
We will check it out.
Yep Efteling..
Has a huge Parkinglot
we have cars but usely we bicycle even when we have a car because quicker and green
There are roads in Giethoorn😂
Actually, the ou in Gouda, pronounced as the au in automobile,
Giethoorn is your canal town. Schiermonikoog is your island that has banned cars
Hi Dems... nice reaction vid.
Don't be fooled... Don't actually think "Giethoorn" doesn't have roads... that info is actually false.
The main part of the village actually doesn't have the canals, yet it's the outer parts of the village that have most houses bordering small canals and waterways...
What is rarely shown in this kind of vids though is the fact that most (if not all) of these houses have some kind of bridge as an access to a road.
They are just most often photographed and captured from the opposite sides (that doesn't show those bridges)
Another myth this video highlighted was the fact that The Netherlands have the tallest people on earth... actually (according to my own research) Lithuania tops that, thus Basketball being Lithuania's top national sport.
Y'all are welcome to come visit.
Keep up the good work.
We will definitely have to visit y’all after learning so much about your culture.
No one in the world can say the G like we dutch do, but thanks for trying.
We say it like growling;
Grrrrr... everbody says rrrrrrrr.
It was effective when we needed a password for the germans back in 1940/1945.
Gouda, Groningen, 's Gravenhagen (den Haag) 's hertogenbosch😂❤
Good video, i am enjoying it😊
The "ou" in gouda is pronounced "ow!" You know when u stub your toe or something
The "g"
You put the back of your tongue against the top of your mouth
And then just let air flow through
Giethoorn is the town with just canals, no cars.
Indonesians have never migrated on large scale towards Netherlands..
gouda the hard ''G'' first
and the ''ou'' part is pronounced like what you call out then you hurt yourself ''auw''
the ''da'' part ,,,, the ''a'' in da is pronounced like the ''a'' in the word pArt or Astronomie
so that makes it more or less Gauwda
i hope this will help you guy,s a bit
You Americans and Gouda, thats just basic cheese to us ;)
Well tell us more☺️
@@TheDemouchetsREACTit's normal but 'Goudse Kaas' is boujie and expensive-even here in the Netherlands. If you can eat Gouda cheese on the daily, you have euros to spend 😂. Another thing about the Dutch: they love to guess how much money people have. A neighbour buys a new car and it's:"hmmm...things must go really well..." But ask a Dutch person how much money the make and they give you the 'none of your business' death-stare. It's funny because the Dutch who are wealthy, are reluctant to 'flaunt' it(except in the big cities). They know if they step out with their LV-bag, they are gonna get stares from equally wealthy people who are more calvinist about their money. It's the whole 'act normal' thing. Which means: don't make a 'spectacle of yourself'. I call it covert envy😂
ha ha ha ha ha LOL, ditch the car Americanies 😁😂😉
so when visiting the netherlands and wanting to go to a amusement park the most known is Walibi Holland. but you could also check out the Efteling and many more. next to walibi Holland is a big piece of land where the biggest festival in the Netherlands takes place Defqon.1 my absolute fav festival out there. i highly recommend you 2 to watch a video or 2 about Defqon.1
It's wadden islands, not walden...
they have yaughts big boats
People that are around horses also wear them, you don't want a horse to step on your sneakers.....
And still in my hard want repetitions for all the suffering 😂😂
Gouda is pronounced Gawda 😊
i am from the netherlands i love your cars, but they are tho big for here
And break down to mutch
Im from the Netherlands and you can give me a car anyday over a bike. 😂 trust me… i know a lot of dutch people who would prefer a car.
Doesnt matter. Because that has nothing to do with my origin. Still know DUTCH people who would prefer the car.
Not Goeda cheese but Gauda cheese ;p
No its not sayt like g its like ch chouda or dutch gouda
The nickname of the Americans Yankee comes from the Dutch Jan Kaas
When something hurts you, you say AUW. Loose the W, put a G before and DA after. Then start grauweling GGGGGouda. Job done......
Watch Soul to Soul travels, you will learn a lot off us.
Go to the efteling and make a review 😂
De Rijn komt in Katwijk uit !
Motor boat or boot dutch
It’s oke Americans 😂
Willem van Oranje was not our first King
The No roads section is a lie. It's not possible to have a town and no roads
I love american muscle cars
Could you pin a link to the original video to the top of comments please? 💜
kids drive their own bikes though
your cars i mean
Its... CH au. Da. Gouda
2:28 het is Noord-Brabant kut!!!
Hit 'translate' on what you posted...😂
The translation is too kind😅
Amsterdam is our only capital.
Huh....I better get off the ghost followers list 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
😂😂 We thought you were apart of the family!
Si la France remet l'armée obligatoire nous deviendrons l'une des 5 puissances mondiales