Americans’ First King's Day in Amsterdam
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- Even though we have lived in Amsterdam for a few years, we always seem to be out of town on King's Day. Not this year! Join us as we walk the streets and see how crazy the party really gets in the capital city of The Netherlands, Amsterdam!
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We are Nate and Katrina, two Americans living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and traveling as much as we can to see what there is to see! Call us expats, immigrants, whatever... just call us already.
We balance work life with travel... as best we can! We would love to visit every country in Europe while we live here, and definitely keep a list of our global “must visit” destinations.
We try to give you a true view of us and how we travel and explore the world. Lots of food, definitely some jokes, and probably some swearing…. Hope you enjoy taking these trips with us!
Tompoes with your hands?
Easy! Remove the top and stick it to the bottom and you still have the complete taste, but without the mess 🤣😉
that is the best advice
As a Dutch person, Kings day in Amsterdam is like Dante's inferno.
To crowded,noice,I prefer the small villages, with Happy Kids running around whilst safe.
are you one of those driving a van in small villages looking for little kids to hand out candy?
say your prayers.
Amsterdam is pretty crazy! Thanks for watching!
Enjoy the Kingsday, the monarchi will disapear. Many Dutch people are done with it.
My first also! So fun. I'm impressed with how quickly you made this video. Putting clips together and with music. Skills I don't have!
loved it guys, embrace the dutch soul and all things good will come to you! really appreciate the gesture towards it, just feeling and experiencing it the real way even with a dislike/fobia to bigger crowds ( just as i have ) . Have a lovely day!
Very nice vlog. It gives a great impression of Kingsday! 🇳🇱🤴🏼🇳🇱🤴🏼🇳🇱🤴🏼
Great video. Enjoyed watching it!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Katrina, you are already a real Dutchie on the bike, it was another nice video Nate and Katrina
Nice vlog! I love the commitment with the orange nail polish😂🧡
Look at you wearing orange! 😊 I am prepped when I go on Holland America ship in September.
The toilets are in the back or in the front. On 9:42 you see built on the front. We have a little portable one in the front. We are 100% prepared for the massive amounts of beer pouring out of our body's ;). (and sometimes, yes the canals are the open sewage...)
Nice video again, I really enjoyed it as usual, thank you
Thanks for following along!
Love your video's and that you embrace the dutch culture so much!!! As a dutch person you've seen more from Holland than me haha
You guys are awesome... I'm watching your videos almost everyday now
Wow! Thank you! We really appreciate the support! 🤗
I don't live in Amsterdam but often work there too and found this was a nice walk around Amsterdam zuid that you guys have done on King's Day.
Still, I'm glad that it was you and not me, as I'm not the greatest with crowds of tourists either. Those tompoes BTW looked delicious.
Lovely video.
Oh what a great video! The things you do for us. And it wasn't that bad right? Real friendly people everywhere. Katrina trying to pick a fight but with no luck. I'm sure next year you'll do it again. The thing I love most in your videos is see you two having fun. This was fun. You had bad expectations and it turned out just fine. Someone recognized Katrina? Wow. Amazing. And it's all good. Maybe your fear of people and questionable streetfood is wearing off when you get older? Cudos for your outfits! You really made an effort. Thanks! 👍👍🥳
❤❤nice vlog. Ziet er gezellig uit 😊
Hi Nate (and Katrina), I admire your courage to jump into this crowd. It takes quite a bit of effort and suffering to create a vlog like this. 😎
Anyway, i did enjoy watchting it 👍
love how even your watch band was orange :)
Great video❤ 😊guys
Thanks for watching! 🤗
I love pofferjis 😮😊❤❤ my son ate my whole order once after he said he didn't want any so I had to stand in line again. 😂😂
As a Dutchie who was ill on Kingsday, thank you for sharing your experience!
One thing about the flags though, they usually come out during special occassions.
If a high-school student passes their exam you'll probably see a flag with a backpack hanging on it. Today (the 4th of May), you will probably see the flags half-raised because of Remembrance-day where as tomorrow on Liberation day they will be up again!
As a kid me and my sister always had a "competition" seeing how many flags we could count on kingsday (then queensday) Was the best fun 😂
It is a Dutch tradition that you buy some junk this year and use for your own stall next year.😁
That's for amateurs. If you're really Dutch you've got plenty of junk of your own.
@@gert-janvanderlee5307 OK....
and never not sell it with a little profit!
Well as long as its covered in cheese it's kinda Dutch, isn't it?
Also, kinda funny you found the orange tompoesen at the Flemmish bakery
I hope you enjoyed it!
Having a royal house also means crazy good times and weird feasts like these. Weird? Yes but FUN!
Great video and lovely humor you both have. We moved from Amsterdam to Portugal (Lisbon area) three years ago and the Kings day (in the past Queens day) were always favourite days throughout the year. We lived near the Vondelpark so you could choose the amount of people you like to meet. I always avoid the Prinsengracht crossing Jordaan and Westerstraat. These places always get the most tourist and no fun to be with all the drinking and music. Katrina my wife agrees totally with your dressing style. Orange in many layers. Keep up the good work and we enjoy the sunny life here.
Leuke video heerlijk Amsterdam leuk stel.
Groet,
Theo
Thanks for watching!
And kingsday is the day that the king and his family is going out to meet people. Every year a different city.
Right! Looks like he skipped Amsterdam this year!
There are just a few days a year I hang out the flag. Kingsday, memorialday at 4th of may and liberationday the 5th of may. And if your kids graduate you put out the flag with their school bag attached to it.
Joost Klein 12 points. Great vid guys.
😂😂 Thanks for watching!
Nice video and probs for going into the Amsterdam madness 🙌🏻 most dutchies will avoid the capitol. Kingsday in the smaller cities and towns is probably more suitable. With music that is not boom boom, allot of fun activities for children and just being with friends and family. Also I have never worn orange on kingsday 👍🏻
This is where children set their first steps in the world of capitalism. Sell junk, get rich. Or not 😂😂
Dutch antrupineurship bro
Hell yeah, its the cradle where it all bigins😅
Entrepreneur @@rogerlafaille9938
Amsterdam during King’s Day is verrrrry different from the rest of the country imo 😆 In most other towns it’s a bit more chill. I used to only go to Amsterdam when I was young and full of energy, now I just prefer the small town coziness and flea markets.
That might be what our future King’s Days look like. Thanks for watching!
So you have even be to the kingsday festival. Next year 538 kings Day festival?
You did exactly right. Buy your Tompouce at Hema or bakery and eat it at home. It isn’t considered street food. 😁
We thought we might have gotten lucky and found some on the street. Oh well! Thanks for watching!
you missed the leidse dwarsstraat, thats where the party is in the center
Real cool video! I bet Highly Combustible Reacts will love this one as well! 😂 He is also American and in the nearby future he wants to go to the Netherlands as well to overcome the same!
There are so many ways to eat a Tompoes. I take the top off, eat the bottomwith the cream and then finish with the glazed top
A great choice! (Now I want one.)
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to celebrate (a late) Kings day with you. Like you, I hate crowds. But I love tompouces. Like you we also did this once. It took us an hour to get through the Kalverstraat. Why am I doing this, I wondered. Seeing your video I still wonder why . I'm now almost at the end of your video and although there are not many people around me, I'm exhausted. Where is my tompouce when I need one? Btw, it's not street food. Thanks again, I'm going to have a nap.
Easiest way to eat a tompoes is to take the upper piece off and put it under the lower piece.. that way you can eat it with your hands. Hello from a Dutchie
You finally find a tompoes and then eat it like a tourist 😂.
Little education, remove the top part and stick it under the bottom. Then you can eat it without the cream squeezing out from all sides.
Nice contribution, enjoyed watching.
I’m Dutch, but I never thought of that. 😳
I’m gonna have one right now. 😬
Thanks for watching!
@@mariodriessen9740 eet smakelijk
@@erikmulder2574 : Hahaha…, ik moest ‘s avonds bij de Appie nog wat boodschappen doen en daar kreeg ik een hele doos mee. Vier stuks. Gratis. Ik heb dit ‘trucje’ of handigheidje voor het eerst getest en verrek… HET WERKT PERFECT! Ik had altijd een hekel aan tompoezen (of tompouces), omdat ik er altijd een zooitje van maakte. Maar ik heb ze alle vier met veel smaak gegeten. Ik heb nog steeds liever een goede Bossche bol, maar ik heb toch wat geleerd. Dank daarvoor! 😬👍
@@mariodriessen9740 over hoe Amerikaanse medelanders hun vlog Nederlanders iets nieuws leert
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Don’t Analyze so much just mingle and enjoy the party next time 🎉 nice video btw 🥳🥳
tompouce has cream and needs to stay cold so it's not the best food to sell in the streets as it will melt and or spoil. You will find it in Hema, bakeries and supermarkets usually
A childfree market. You might be on to something there. I'd definately come to that quiet, wonderful place. :p
Tompoes is hart to find on de street. 4 mei is dodenherdenking en 5mei is Bevrijdingsdag than you wil see more flags 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
the city places public toilets on some bigger squares usually, there is cafe's, there's spots that let you pee for 50cents, but yh.. 'wild-peeing'(literal translation from wildplassen) is a big problem on King's day
No amount of toilets would be enough for how many people were out on King’s Day! 😂 But we appreciate the city’s effort!
No orange; Goodbye! 😂😂
We don’t make the rules. We just enforce them. 😂 Thanks for watching!
hey call it junk all you want but there's always a buyer for some of it 😂
The tompouce was probably sold out at noon...
Kings Day Amsterdam?
To an introvert it is like the nine circles of hell - the closer to the city center the worse it gets.
Lol, facts
im glad i didn't go.
We had to experience it once in our lives! 😂 Thanks for watching!
5:23 have to admit as an Amsterdammer that I was a bit disgusted by that piece of ‘food’.
You guys are -old- good!
Wait a minute…
That's a pretty good tompouce eating technique you got there (compliment coming from a native)
Wow, thank you! It took a lot of practice. 😜
Ah that’s a Nice neighbourhood. Amsterdam Zuid
Pofferjays
Like number 500. ❤
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Kindervrijmarkt vs. kindervrije markt :) I understand the confusion :)
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Honest mistake! 😂
Who spotted Thierry Baudet in the Beethovenstreet at 3:30 ?
Dit you like it?
It's fun to see that all the fun in the netherlands is actually not in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is only for tourists like you. The real dutchies know where to go.
TELL US WHERE TO GO!!!! sorry I yelled.
You live near NOT JUST BIKES 😁
There was a Hare Krishna young guy that burned himself alive at Kingsday many years ago that remains to be unidentified and now seeing that walk. So I am not sure what that was about.
If you try to avoid crowds, why did you move to the Netherlands?
Not that I did any better by moving from the Netherlands to New Jersey 😂
Fair! We came for Nate’s work.
It’s not a problem until we go towards the center of Amsterdam. 🫠
Nate lived in Philly and worked in NJ quite a bit years ago!
For a tompouce you better go to a backery.
These were from a bakery! 🤗
The completely missed the Feyenoord shirt
It is not allowed in the Netherlands to fly the flag on an ordinary day 😉
Some women also just pee over the edge of the boat. You just need someone to hold your hands so you don't fall over. It's what all the bridges are for.
Or you just ask the captain nicely to make a pitstop every hour or so. There's a map of the city where they post all the places with free temporary toilets on king's day, or you just pay a euro at a cafe.
Good to know! 😂
Treasures = Pre-loved Junk...😂
Tomato, tomAHHto… 😂
leuke vlog maar wat een KKKKKKKKKK muziek verschrikkelijk gekeken zonder geluid.
Kindervrijmarkt vs. kindvrije markt, butt, how would you know the difference! 😂
cheese pretsl isn't dutch.
Hey Nate- you might want to work on your pronouncement of the word “poffertjes. “
Lol. 😜
I knew this was coming when I saw the video back. 🫠
what the heck is a pronouncement? A gender reveal for trnas people? ;p
go to zwollle city 5 mei big s bevrijding festival van the Nederlandse
There’s always next year!
"Act normal, because normal is crazy enough" is the Dutch motto. So what do you do with deep insight in statistics? Let the entire population move to another "normal" for a day". Because then the downright craziness is the "normal" for a day.
Nice vlog! Btw, it's the Netherlands, you can show your underwear! No problem! 😁
😂 Like we said… it’s not that kind of video. 😜 Thanks for watching!
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
3:29 in the right side of the screen isn't that Thierry Baudet😂
I think you are right. So the crazy Putin lover likes to enjoy the Dutch Kingsday while being paid by the mob Putin. Terrible man. For the rest nice and enjoyable video. I love to see the smile in the face of Katrina. Next year she can sell orange kisses ;-)
Do XTC next time
Speak dutch when you living here!
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Alsof je gelijk Nederlands kan praten als je hier net komt wonen. Domme uitspraak..
@@vlinder0108 als je goed luistert wonen zij hier al jaren!
However 'fun' it might be, I draw the line when young amateur 'musicians' try their craft near me. Hence you will never see me there. Sorry.
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peeing on the boots happens under the bridge,
Kingsday is dead.,...back in the 80/ early 90 it was so epic , now its just a party
We are not realy celebrating the King's birthday. Many people couldn't care less. It is just our national holiday.
Amsterdam, I don’t like. Amsterdam during kingsday is hell…..
But we survived! 🙌🏻
Good for u cry baby haha
kings day in amsterdam is the worst experiance you can have 😅🤣
It’s definitely a one and done for us. Thanks for watching!
Too many people! Argggghhh!
Tompouce isn’t street food.
12:30 they’re throwing it at “Feyenoord”, there’s a big rivalry between Ajax (Amsterdam football team) and Feyenoord (Rotterdam football team), but Ajax sucks now, so they’re only able to win from Feyenoord with silly eggs.
There was a lot of people! Thanks for watching!
I avoid Amsterdam on Kingsday
Come on guys be Dutch be honest , it’s junk 😂
it is not bad music. it is just music you 2 don’t like 👍
That’s just like, your opinion, man.
ok have a beautiful life you 2
You talk to much.
Greetings from Netherlands
It is obvious you guys do not understand the dutch republic vs the the dutch monarchy. The dutch were the one of the first modern republics. Only after the defeat of Napoleon did we get a dutch monarchy. Kings day is a sham
I'm sorry to say this, but since a few years i've grown a pretty big dislike to this 'king' and his wife, and i don't celebrate his birthday.
And like many Dutch people, also those who do party, only a handful actually celebrate his birthday, most people just grab any chance of having a party, just for the sake of having a party.
Yes. It's better to have a president. Presidents really unite a country. Nobody likes to party anymore. Look at these people in The Netherlands. Everybody is unhappy and in a bad mood. We need old men like Trump or Biden here. That will make us as good as Murica.
I don’t get why people say it is an ancient institution and it’s not something for current times. Are they going to say the same about a president in 200 years? And who knows the name of the president of Finland or Portugal? Or from our neighbor Germany for that matter. 98% don’t know them, but most of them do know the king of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Spain etc. Royals have just that tiny bit more attention. And on state visits the organizing country rather have a king and queen than a president, with the exception of the president of the US. Every president is a political appointee and subject to party politics, not something I like. Also economically it has more value to have a king and queen than a president. On state visits a king (and/or queen) can visit lots of businesses and factories and broker deals if necessary. Or behind the screens talk about or speed up the process in case of extradition, Dutch citizens in jail, human rights, Dutch appointees for international organizations, or other binational or international issues. A king (and/or queen) has more weight on the scale than a president, in most countries that is. Presidents are so often partizan or insignificant and every four or five years there is an election for a president half the country doesn’t want and doesn’t feel represented by. In that case I rather have a king (and/or queen) which I can’t choose and who is above party interest. How much more money it may cost compared to a president. Which is not as much as people think it is.
@@Jan.Folkersma ''Presidents really unite a country'' Ehh no, but they could tho.
''Nobody likes to party anymore.'' I don't think 'liking' is the problem here.
''unhappy and in a bad mood.'' Absolutely true, and the cause of that is over a decade of Rutte and friends.
And anyone wanting a Biden and his policies, is an idiot.
''as good as Murica.''
There's a lot of no good, even horrific, to find over there.
And yes, also a lot of good, but not so much as many people think.
What is a birthday other than a having a party!
If you party on Kingsday you celebrate his birthday.
O great, my second comment isn't showing up.
O well, it's time to party anyway.
shitty weather this year
The Dutch need to stop celebrating their monarchy.
Why?
@@jcvastgoed1490 Due to the power that they still hold in politics or rather the influence on people. We need to be more united as a people and have a realistic image about the royal family and how they came to power and the importance that they still give themselves.
Amsterdam is sh*t no matter what day
so you try to avoid crowds but then post it on you tube wat a bunchs of bulshit
Yeah, really bad stuff here Fryske. 😑
The only day whe are free of islam.
It’s not the kings birthday . It’s his great grand mothers birthday .
Dat was op 30 april. Toen WA koning werd is het 27 april geworden. Dus al een aantal jaren.