I’ve lived my entire life in Den Haag and I can assure you weren’t the only one mistaking the bus lane at Plein 1813 for the normal road haha. Glad to see someone who’s not just visiting Amsterdam for once. Not that I have anything against the city, but the Netherlands is so much more than just Amsterdam.
Hey guys i am dutch and yes calve pindakaas with the Gruyter hagelslag i eat it stil almost every day (58years old) i used to take a bite and then take a zip of hot tea so the hagelslag melts in your mouth, that's awesome. Thanks for visiting the Netherlands. you both are great, i described a long time ago and love your content. Thank you for that !!
It’s was seriously so nice and heartwarming as a Dutch person to see you relive your childhood moments with such warmth and nostalgia. The breakfast was spot on, only I prefer the red Hagelslag (pure chocolate) but yeah, white bread not toasted is my guilty pleasure as well. Thanks for the tribute video!
I’m from the USA. When I was a young girl I had a friend from Denmark named Kostin. He let me wear his wooden shoes around AND I remember once when I ate lunch at his house I was served soup and a chocolate sandwich. In between 2 slices of bread was a rather soft, thin square piece of chocolate. Like as if it was a slice of cheese. To me that memory is still strong and that was 60+ years ago. Yeah, memories can be so moving. Thank you for sharing. It is so nice!
Oh yesss I’ve eaten those - like thin chocolate rectangles (you can buy them in Sweden too, since it’s so close to Denmark!) delicious! Yummy things really can bring back brilliant memories 😍
we have a beautiful country, which I love very much... But... small, many people, many rules, and in winter it is very gray in our flat country. And in a hundred years there will probably be 10 meters of water in Amsterdam, and hopefully we can come and live in your beautiful Italian country 😉 (we will do our best to build gigantic water works, you can be sure 🇳🇱👍🏻)
I love this video. 20 years ago I lived for two years in Leiden and den Haag and this brings so many memories, especially shopping in Albert hejin! Leiden is my favourite town in the Netherlands. Now you made me thinking of going back for a visit:)
That was nice. I grew up there, I will always have a soft spot for Leiden and I want to go back when I am older. It used to be a major European city centuries ago and the world just forgot about it. It was still very poor up to the 1980's but now it's booming again. We were lucky to grow up in a place like that.
I am German but that Dutch breakfast is a tradition in my family. 😋 We've been eating it since I was a toddler and every time when I had a sleepover with my friends they were surprised to see us eat that. 🙈
Just discovered your channel as you left the UK and I really like your vlogging style. I don’t know that part of the Netherlands but spent a good amount of time in Limburg for work between 2003 and 2014 and you’ve given me a reminder to go back and visit. Safe onward travels.
Nostalgia is that feeling of past happy memories of places (or music) that made a deep impact on your growing up years which are hard to forget . . . and I can totally relate with you Adriana . . . and that's a lovely community you grew up in . . .
As a boy I use to live in Leiden, when to work in the Leiden main hospital, now I live in Melbourne Australia, it really brings back memories of Leiden Amsterdam and of course the rest of the Netherlands, as I was born and now, I live in Melbourne Australia, thank you both for the memories in both the Netherlands and of course Australia. I have been to the Netherlands a few times through the years,
White bread with butter, pindakaas and hagelslag is my favorite breakfast for 60 years 😊. Appeltaart, stroopwafels, warme chocolademelk: so normal to us, but you makenit special. When our spanish friends visit us they always want to eat that as well. Also nice to see that you are visiting other cities than Amsterdam. There are so many cities much more genuine than Amsterdam! Enjoy your roadtrip through main land Europe!
After you buttered your bread, spread a bit of peanut butter on it and then hagelslag. To complete it, sprinkle a little salt on it, just to pick up the chocolate a bit. it's really good!
Thnx for this amazing vid! As a "Hagenees" i found it wonderful to see "my" city through your eyes!. I was suprised that Adriana is Swedish. Sverige är min andre hemland. När man älskar ett land, måsta du lära spräket!
Awe, I love that you're so sentimental.... it's charming. I've never even heard of fries with peanut sauce but I love fries, especially good ones so I'd try it for sure 😁🤗💞
Your videos always just seem so sincere and really chill me out! Also, my niece lived in The Hague and really makes me realise that I should visit the Nederlands
Nice to see you visiting Leiden! Can imagine the good times you had while living there! We always enjoy coming to the city, no matter what the season is. Summer's best though, sitting on one of the terrace boats along the canals. In the sun enjoying lunch while watching pleasure boats passing by.
Aww Adriana your emotion was just bubbling under the surface, Leiden looks beautiful .. glad to made it back and lots of photos and memories to share with your mum soon ❤ love from North Wales xxx
Last time I was in the Netherlands was in 2018. Watching this episode gave me so much heimwee. I know the feeling of coming back to, in my case was the city of eindhoven.
Oh sweet sweet Adriana, I smiled throughout this whole video and then a few happy tears at the end. Thank you for taking us on this special journey home with you, beautiful to watch and experience with you
Wow,I would never of thought to put peanut sauce on chips,I will now 😋 I love the Dutch food,scenery and the people. It looked emotional Adriana,glad you made it back 😊
After trying the fries with pindasaus, go really Dutch and try patatje oorlog (or flip depending on the region) which is fries with pindasaus and mayo. It's honestly really good!
I lived in Den Haag and would often visit Leiden. We would go to the same cafe and have the apple cake. What memories. Feel a little emotional when realising how much we miss the place. Enjoy your trip guys. You're awesome 👍
That was a blast from the past! 1984 Four of us- student nurses travelled around Europe using an Autorail card- very much on a budget- stayed in a youth hostel in Den Haag….. and sampled the bread and sprinkles for breakfast! Good times x
Totally loved this one, Leiden is such a beautiful place even with rain, it's amazing that you guys could get to the Netherlands in your house on wheels Elton, and that you're going to Switzerland too with your house on your back, that's so convenient, can't wait to see one video of you guys at Switzerland cause that's a gorgeous country as well. Cheers
Thank you! Oh yes you’re right - having our home with us makes everything soooo much smoother 😍🤗 incredible! We are really looking forward to exploring more of Switzerland!
Just got home (UK) from 2 weeks in Leiden and I'm just soaking up these scenes! My favourite cafe is Borgmans, just across the Sint Sebastiaansbrug from Cafe Snijers. :)
I loved seeing you enjoy Leiden so much! I live in Leiden, in fact you walked past my house in the video, and I ADORE Leiden too. It's such a special place to live, and I love seeing other people's heart being warmed by this little city. Also on bread with hagelslag: what I would recommned is toasting some wholegrain bread, putting butter on top, and adding dark chocoladevlokken!
Untoasted is definitely the most common way! Tho there's not really a wrong way imo. With untoasted you get the crunch from the hagelslag and the fluffy bread. With toasted (still warm) you get the crunch from the bread and the hagelslag starts to melt so it becomes gooey, which is nice as well 😁 Basically, you can't lose 😉
I must visit the Netherlands. You both made it look so homely, and I can tell you're so happy to be there. Food looks so yummy. I'm glad the coffee machine made an appearance, haha
We are aussies, however my mum is Dutch so we were brought up with the ‘chocolate hail/sprinkles’ on bread with butter. Delicious! I want to see you get some Dutch salted licorice! I love it but it’s an acquired taste hahaha
Amazing!! 😍🤗 off-camera I’ve eaten a few bags of salted liquorice already!! It’s so good (we also have it in Sweden so I grew up with that taste… Dylan can’t stand it haha!!)
Let's nitpick. For chocolate hagelslag you gotta go with the Venz brand. For the rest de Ruijter is fine. Also, I agree that the best way is to have hagelslag is on fresh (non-toasted) bread, but the bread you bought was meant to be toasted, it says so on the packaging. Even though you can eat that bread without toasting it just fine, it would be subpar compared to what else is available. The Netherlands has so much good bread, easily accessible in supermarket, but for this special occasion a trip the bakery was warranted. If you bought some non-sliced fresh white bread and spread the butter and Venz hagelslag on it, it would have been really heavenly.
hahah :) As a Dutch person, so nice to see your enthusiasm about my country. Of course, since you have spent your teenage years here there is some nostalgia that adds to your experience. But also, if you are from Sweden, that also helps. I feel close to the Nordic countries, in terms of spirit and values. Much like brothers, in a way. Love your video and you both are very lovely people. I hope you will have a beautiful trip and make many meaningful, joyful and positive memories! :) PS you should have given your boyfriend / husband a taste of Dutch licorice! You know, the salty kind that usually nobody likes except dutch and nordic people lol! Its always so funny 😅
Cute to see you revisit your old living space with fond memory's of our country. I didnt know the Rembrand house is in Leiden. Im going to Leiden tomorrow, I should stop by there
Hi I am Dutch, I also used to study in Leiden and live in The Hague. The house you lived in I exactly know where it is :-) and yes Leiden has something magical even for us Dutch. But Delft has to most magic especially on a Saturday morning. It’s nice for me to see someone who actually is not Dutch feel so connected to our culture and cities. Thank for sharing your experience. Maybe you remember that in 2006 there where big celebrations in Leiden because of the birth of Rembrandt 400 years ago, I remember partying in Leiden was so much fun. And not to forget het Leids ontzet. (3 october)
Oh yes Saturday morning is the best time for Leiden! I can still remember leaving the market with my hands full of flowers and kibbeling! 😍 It was such a wonderful place to spend time and it will always feel magical and special! I feel so lucky to be part of the group of people that got to call this place home at some point! 🤗😍
My best friend lives in the UK now and she has 2 boys and I alwys need to bring them hagelslag, calve pindakaas and stroopwafels. So happy for you that you had a good time. I even recognized Bodegraven!
14:45 For adults as well. I don't eat breakfast often, but if I do it's usually stuff like hagelslag, but I prefer it on beschuit instead of bread. Also really good with a thin layer of Nutella instead of butter! And yes, bread not toasted is the standard. 19:23 Dutch apple pie is the best ♥ About koffie verkeerd ('wrong coffee'), not sure if there is an English word for it. It's basically half warm milk, half coffee. Latte might come closest, but is made with espresso and steamed milk. us Dutchies don't go that fancy 😜 Loved the vid, and seeing how you felt being back after all those years! ❤
Very nice video. Happy journey on your way to Switzerland. Just in case no one has mentioned it, the pindasaus on frites was sort of a happy accident/invention after the Dutch Indonesians began emigrating to the Netherlands in the 50s and 60s. It is actually sate sauce, sans the chilli pepper sambal, that is usually put on Indonesian kebab. And yes it is pretty much a Dutch thing.
I would totally try hagalslak! Another terrific vlog. It's very nice to see your reactions to your former adopted home. For everyone who has moved on to other places, I'm guessing most of us have or will return and so I relate to your nostalgic emotions. I remember breaking into tears when I walked onto the tennis court at my school, where I taught myself to play and spent many years 😂. Lovely to see you both.
You should. It is spelled Hagelslag. I recommend at least trying the pure chocolate and milk chocolate. There are more flavors and even very sweet sugary ones but I would stick to the two basic chocolate ones to start. If you eat it once in a while then that’s fine, I don’t think anyone here really eats it daily
Beautiful video. I know the feeling, I've been living in the Netherlands (Den Haag) for 10 years now. It's amazing how one get to love a place as your own, live new things that will always stay with us forever. I'm glad you had good memories, enough to make you come back. Safe travels.
I grew up in Wassenaar, a village in between The Hague and Leiden. We lived on the Leiden side of the village, so my mum and I often went to Leiden when went to town. I love Leiden. Even when I left home to live on my own I moved to Leiden eventhough I studied in The Hague (it's only 12 minutes by train).
As a Dutch person living near Leiden en being born in The Hage it was so much fun to see you. Hagelslag is being eaten by children and adults. Koffie verkeerd is like A café latte. Or a cafe white. Lots of milk. Enjoy your time here.
What a lovely couple the two of you are. What a nice trip you are doing. This was a sentimental journey to Leiden, but first Den Haag. Coincidentally I was in Den Haag for a party in Het Paard, a well known venue. I studied in Leiden for a short while, my Godson was born there, but I haven't been there to wander. I know some spots like the university, obviously, as well as the Museum voor Land en Volkenkunde (Museum of Land and Ethnology). My hometown is Rotterdam. Peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles is indeed what I grew up with. Try it with „ontbijtkoek" (translated as gingerbread, but that's not completely accurate, as many don't have ginger in it) which is what I still eat. Enjoy the trip🌸
Oh how lovely!! 😍 Next time we come to the Netherlands we will have to visit Rotterdam! 🤗 Oooooo I’ve tried ontbijtkoek before and it was soooo soft and delicious 😍
As you may know, the Netherlands is split south/north over the naming of French fries. In the south they are called "friet" and in the north "patat" but you also read "patat friet" sometimes, although nobody says that. I think The Hague is in "patat" territory.
In New Zealand we have " hundreds and thousands fairy bread" it will be on table at any children's birthday parties and always gets devoured fast 😋 , it's very special feeling standing on old home soil,rather refreshing on the soul ❤️❤️
That bread, butter and chocolate sprinkles combo is also extremely popular in Java. I spent a month there last year and had it for breakfast almost every day! haha And you're right, way better when its not toasted bread
Java was an old Dutch colony and they brought some habits with them. One of them is the hagelslag. And the Dutch brought the Indonesian cuisine back to the Netherlands, that why we eat pindakaas and saté saus
Great to see you visit my hometown Leiden. Hope you liked coming back. Which high school did you go to?? You missed the Burcht! A small castle on a hill in the middle of the city centre where the old and new Rhine river meet. Great little secret.
Absolutely loved coming back! I went to an international school called the American School of The Hague (but it’s actually in Wassenaar haha!) 🤗 Oh something to keep for our next visit!
We ate the hagelslag some 60 years ago, although it wasn't called such at our place. Nowadays I only would eat it when in great misery and nothing else were on hand. We also liked raw eggs with sugar back then.
French fries (Friet or Patat) are actually from Belgium. For some time Belgium was part of the Netherlands, that is why the best fries are in the Netherlands and Belgium. 😊
Great vid as usual…just a cheap and easy fix for your coffee machine…put two hooks either side of the machine in the wall and put a elastic bungee round to secure 👍
Such a stunning place to visit, Leiden looks so nice, the thought of visiting in a campervan is so cool, I hope one day my wife and I have the courage to do it. We worry so much about finding places to park up safely which I think stops us from adventures like yours, awesome channel guy's Safe travels Lee
The main difference between our hagelslag and random sprinkles, is the cacao content. They need a minimum % to be legit. Untoasted is definitely the best way: a soft white bun, with real butter and hagelslag is divine. Toast just melts the hagelslag, at that point, you might as well get a chocolate spread.
Not just that, sprinkles in other countries are often auger coated (like venz hagelslag here) which makes them quite different. Main reason why I don't like the venz brand much.
Hagelslag + pindakaas has sustained me for 22 years. If your feeling spicy: you can either add a some spice to your sandwich, or throw it into the toaster, or even better both!
@@2Passports1Dream My wife and I will be following you all throughout your journey. What you two are doing is something that people like us can only dream of.
I am from the Netherlands, I love the Part about the Peanut sauce over Frites.... But the best Peanut sauce, you can get, you have to go to Indonesia, or Suriname..... then you get the real one. And I love you're dutch tradition , Peanutbutter with Chocolate sprinkles, oftewel Pindakaas met hagelsag, ik doe altijd nog roomboter op het broodje eronder. And not only young ones, or some older people, i am almost 50 and still eating it....... I am from Alphen aan den Rijn, born in Amsterdam, and had my Highschool also in Leiden...... That way... I love you're story, and reminds me also....
No idea why this came up in my recommendations but was pleasantly surprised when you mentioned Leiden. Brought back so many memories as I was working there in 1990. Unfortunately due to the time since I left & the relatively short time I was there means what you showed in the video didn't have any familiarity. I had a great time there & wanted to stay there for good. My first childs upcomming birth made that impossible along with my girlfriends reluctance to even move out of her road, let alone country 🤣 I often wonder how my life would have been had we moved there.
Oh that’s so lovely! 😍 It’s such a nice place… it’s impossible to know all of the what ifs, I’m sure that the path you ended up taking instead was the one that was meant to be!
As a dutchman it is hartwarming to see how much you enjoyed your boterham met hagelslag. Nice to see you having positive chilhood memories about the Netherlands, altough I’m not quite sure about the hagelslag-pindakaas combination.
@@2Passports1Dream It has been my go to topping since childhood. But you need to put butter on the bread, then the pindakaas and then the hagelslag. Makes it less dry and sticky.
I still eat witbrood with roomboter and pindakaas and hagelslag. De puur variety. Your Dutch is getting better each episode! Eet smakelijk! By the way: Zegveld is in the Zuid Holland cheese region! Do try that as well 🤪
Loving this video....Adriana love the look you get with each childhood memory you were having. And your breakfast with the sprinkles you will fit in if you come to Australia ...here we have "fairy bread" . normally for children's parties (but adults like it too ) it is bread, butter and hundreds and thousands (the little round candy sprinkles they put on cookies and cakes. Some will argue and say you should use sprinkles instead. (personal preference) but the sprinkles aren't as hard.
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I’ve lived my entire life in Den Haag and I can assure you weren’t the only one mistaking the bus lane at Plein 1813 for the normal road haha.
Glad to see someone who’s not just visiting Amsterdam for once. Not that I have anything against the city, but the Netherlands is so much more than just Amsterdam.
It has happened me in Antwerpen
Hehe that makes us feel a lot better!! 😅 Thank you so much 😍
Thank you for sharing authentic dutch culture and for giving exposure to cities other than Amsterdam!
So glad you enjoyed it 😍🤗
Yeah, when I saw the stroopwafels and fries I thought, here we go again, but Leiden was a very nice surprise. I did part of high school there.
Hey guys i am dutch and yes calve pindakaas with the Gruyter hagelslag i eat it stil almost every day (58years old) i used to take a bite and then take a zip of hot tea so the hagelslag melts in your mouth, that's awesome. Thanks for visiting the Netherlands. you both are great, i described a long time ago and love your content. Thank you for that !!
Thank you so much!! 🤗 Oh yes it’s soooo good 😍
It’s was seriously so nice and heartwarming as a Dutch person to see you relive your childhood moments with such warmth and nostalgia.
The breakfast was spot on, only I prefer the red Hagelslag (pure chocolate) but yeah, white bread not toasted is my guilty pleasure as well. Thanks for the tribute video!
Thank you very much for watching 🙏🏼
I’m from the USA. When I was a young girl I had a friend from Denmark named Kostin. He let me wear his wooden shoes around AND I remember once when I ate lunch at his house I was served soup and a chocolate sandwich. In between 2 slices of bread was a rather soft, thin square piece of chocolate. Like as if it was a slice of cheese. To me that memory is still strong and that was 60+ years ago. Yeah, memories can be so moving. Thank you for sharing. It is so nice!
Denmark is not the Netherlands… 🤔
Oh yesss I’ve eaten those - like thin chocolate rectangles (you can buy them in Sweden too, since it’s so close to Denmark!) delicious! Yummy things really can bring back brilliant memories 😍
How lovely! I like everything about this country💛
we do too! ❤️
we have a beautiful country, which I love very much... But... small, many people, many rules, and in winter it is very gray in our flat country. And in a hundred years there will probably be 10 meters of water in Amsterdam, and hopefully we can come and live in your beautiful Italian country 😉 (we will do our best to build gigantic water works, you can be sure 🇳🇱👍🏻)
I love this video. 20 years ago I lived for two years in Leiden and den Haag and this brings so many memories, especially shopping in Albert hejin! Leiden is my favourite town in the Netherlands. Now you made me thinking of going back for a visit:)
Oh amazing!! Yes I was sooo happy to be back to visit again 😍 I didn’t realise how much I missed it until now!
You both have the loveliest smiles, it is very infectious. I find myself smiling all through your videos.
Ah thank you - so kind of you to say! ❤️😍😁
This is so lovely the reaction of you seeing ur old house is so sweet 😊
Thank you!! 😊
That was nice. I grew up there, I will always have a soft spot for Leiden and I want to go back when I am older. It used to be a major European city centuries ago and the world just forgot about it. It was still very poor up to the 1980's but now it's booming again. We were lucky to grow up in a place like that.
Such a beautiful place! You’re so right - so lucky 😍
I love the Netherlands! I was lucky to travel near Leiden (Oegstgeest actually) for work and was able to take in the sights. Beautiful town!
Ah amazing! It’s such a beautiful and quaint place 😍
I am German but that Dutch breakfast is a tradition in my family. 😋 We've been eating it since I was a toddler and every time when I had a sleepover with my friends they were surprised to see us eat that. 🙈
It’s SO GOOD! I can see why! Hehe 😍 it’s an excellent tradition to have!
Just discovered your channel as you left the UK and I really like your vlogging style. I don’t know that part of the Netherlands but spent a good amount of time in Limburg for work between 2003 and 2014 and you’ve given me a reminder to go back and visit. Safe onward travels.
Thank you so much! Happy to have you on board 😍🤗
Nostalgia is that feeling of past happy memories of places (or music) that made a deep impact on your growing up years which are hard to forget . . . and I can totally relate with you Adriana . . . and that's a lovely community you grew up in . . .
Oh it’s so true! Some smells or tastes or sounds can you transport you back to any age and feeling… it’s really incredible!
@@2Passports1Dream Ohhhh . . . Dylan will give you now a tight HUG🫂 Adriana . . . (just like in this outro)
Thank you for this video. Wonderful. Beautiful Netherlands. Lots of good food. It's must have been really sentimental reliving your past memories.
It was so so nice to be back! Thank you 🤗😍
@@2Passports1Dream Wonderful. 😄
As a boy I use to live in Leiden, when to work in the Leiden main hospital, now I live in Melbourne Australia, it really brings back memories of Leiden Amsterdam and of course the rest of the Netherlands, as I was born and now, I live in Melbourne Australia, thank you both for the memories in both the Netherlands and of course Australia. I have been to the Netherlands a few times through the years,
Oh amazing!! 😍 yes Leiden is so incredible - amazing memories there! ❤️
White bread with butter, pindakaas and hagelslag is my favorite breakfast for 60 years 😊. Appeltaart, stroopwafels, warme chocolademelk: so normal to us, but you makenit special. When our spanish friends visit us they always want to eat that as well. Also nice to see that you are visiting other cities than Amsterdam. There are so many cities much more genuine than Amsterdam! Enjoy your roadtrip through main land Europe!
Hehe sooo many delicious things that are soooo Dutch 😍
Skip the butter
After you buttered your bread, spread a bit of peanut butter on it and then hagelslag. To complete it, sprinkle a little salt on it, just to pick up the chocolate a bit. it's really good!
Next time! lol 😀
Thnx for this amazing vid! As a "Hagenees" i found it wonderful to see "my" city through your eyes!. I was suprised that Adriana is Swedish. Sverige är min andre hemland. När man älskar ett land, måsta du lära spräket!
Hehe thank you 🤗🤗
You must have had a great childhood. What a wonderful place and feelings. Thanks for sharing.
I really did, thank you so much for watching & for your kind comment!
Awe, I love that you're so sentimental.... it's charming. I've never even heard of fries with peanut sauce but I love fries, especially good ones so I'd try it for sure 😁🤗💞
It’s definitely a dish to try! So tasty 😍😍
Your videos always just seem so sincere and really chill me out! Also, my niece lived in The Hague and really makes me realise that I should visit the Nederlands
Oh wow thank you so much! That makes us so happy 😍😍 so glad you feel that way!
Nice to see you visiting Leiden! Can imagine the good times you had while living there! We always enjoy coming to the city, no matter what the season is. Summer's best though, sitting on one of the terrace boats along the canals. In the sun enjoying lunch while watching pleasure boats passing by.
Oh yes summer is the best time, but it’s always lovely 😍🤗
Aww Adriana your emotion was just bubbling under the surface, Leiden looks beautiful .. glad to made it back and lots of photos and memories to share with your mum soon ❤ love from North Wales xxx
Hehe thank you so much!! So so nice to be back 😍
Last time I was in the Netherlands was in 2018. Watching this episode gave me so much heimwee. I know the feeling of coming back to, in my case was the city of eindhoven.
Ahw that’s so lovely 🤗🤗
Oh sweet sweet Adriana, I smiled throughout this whole video and then a few happy tears at the end. Thank you for taking us on this special journey home with you, beautiful to watch and experience with you
Thank you very much for watching 🙏🏼❤️
Wow,I would never of thought to put peanut sauce on chips,I will now 😋
I love the Dutch food,scenery and the people.
It looked emotional Adriana,glad you made it back 😊
It’s sooooooo good! 😍😍 ah yes, it’s incredible! Thank you so much 🤗
After trying the fries with pindasaus, go really Dutch and try patatje oorlog (or flip depending on the region) which is fries with pindasaus and mayo. It's honestly really good!
I lived in Den Haag and would often visit Leiden. We would go to the same cafe and have the apple cake. What memories. Feel a little emotional when realising how much we miss the place. Enjoy your trip guys. You're awesome 👍
That’s amazing! The apple cake is out of this world 😍 Thank you so much!
I love the way she is explaining, wish you both have nice holiday, greatt...
Thank you 😊😊
So lovely to see your emotions with Leiden, the town where I was born and have lived in my youth and still visit regularly.
It’s such a wonderful place
I'm in Australia and I purchased that exact brand of chocolate sprinkles from Aldi 😂 I'll try tomorrow. Great vlog as usual.
Its so good! haha Enjoy!
That was a blast from the past! 1984 Four of us- student nurses travelled around Europe using an Autorail card- very much on a budget- stayed in a youth hostel in Den Haag….. and sampled the bread and sprinkles for breakfast! Good times x
Oh wow that sounds amazing!!
Totally loved this one, Leiden is such a beautiful place even with rain, it's amazing that you guys could get to the Netherlands in your house on wheels Elton, and that you're going to Switzerland too with your house on your back, that's so convenient, can't wait to see one video of you guys at Switzerland cause that's a gorgeous country as well. Cheers
Thank you! Oh yes you’re right - having our home with us makes everything soooo much smoother 😍🤗 incredible! We are really looking forward to exploring more of Switzerland!
So great I’ve just been back and also lived in Holland when I was younger ❤ best country everrrrrr
Oh amazing 😍😍
Just got home (UK) from 2 weeks in Leiden and I'm just soaking up these scenes! My favourite cafe is Borgmans, just across the Sint Sebastiaansbrug from Cafe Snijers. :)
Oh that’s so lovely 😍
I loved seeing you enjoy Leiden so much! I live in Leiden, in fact you walked past my house in the video, and I ADORE Leiden too. It's such a special place to live, and I love seeing other people's heart being warmed by this little city.
Also on bread with hagelslag: what I would recommned is toasting some wholegrain bread, putting butter on top, and adding dark chocoladevlokken!
Oh no way! How cool that we walked past your house! It’s such a wonderful city 😍 we will have to give that a try, it sounds delicious 😍
Untoasted is definitely the most common way! Tho there's not really a wrong way imo. With untoasted you get the crunch from the hagelslag and the fluffy bread. With toasted (still warm) you get the crunch from the bread and the hagelslag starts to melt so it becomes gooey, which is nice as well 😁 Basically, you can't lose 😉
Hahaha so true! It’s really a win win 😍😍
I must visit the Netherlands. You both made it look so homely, and I can tell you're so happy to be there. Food looks so yummy. I'm glad the coffee machine made an appearance, haha
It’s incredible! An amazing country to visit for sure! 😍🤗
Nice that you had fun here!!! 👍🏻👍🏻 Welcome every time. 😘😘
Wohoo! Thank you so much! 🤗
you brought tears to my eyes. Dank je...
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We are aussies, however my mum is Dutch so we were brought up with the ‘chocolate hail/sprinkles’ on bread with butter. Delicious! I want to see you get some Dutch salted licorice! I love it but it’s an acquired taste hahaha
Amazing!! 😍🤗 off-camera I’ve eaten a few bags of salted liquorice already!! It’s so good (we also have it in Sweden so I grew up with that taste… Dylan can’t stand it haha!!)
If you like Dutch licorice, you are definitely a Dutchie 🇳🇱👍👍😄
I have just found your channel! You two are gorgeous! So fresh and genuine! Love from Australia !
Oh thank you so much!! ❤️❤️
Let's nitpick. For chocolate hagelslag you gotta go with the Venz brand. For the rest de Ruijter is fine. Also, I agree that the best way is to have hagelslag is on fresh (non-toasted) bread, but the bread you bought was meant to be toasted, it says so on the packaging. Even though you can eat that bread without toasting it just fine, it would be subpar compared to what else is available. The Netherlands has so much good bread, easily accessible in supermarket, but for this special occasion a trip the bakery was warranted. If you bought some non-sliced fresh white bread and spread the butter and Venz hagelslag on it, it would have been really heavenly.
Oh yessssss! It sounds impossible to make it more delicious but even better bread - I can imagine 👀😍
As a Dutchie I support the comment on the bread, but De Ruijter is da BEST!
Venz is new school, De Ruijter is old school and the real deal.
My favorite channel and content. It's great. I love it. Thank you. 👍👍👍😍😍😍
Thank you Sharon ❤️❤️❤️
hahah :) As a Dutch person, so nice to see your enthusiasm about my country. Of course, since you have spent your teenage years here there is some nostalgia that adds to your experience. But also, if you are from Sweden, that also helps. I feel close to the Nordic countries, in terms of spirit and values. Much like brothers, in a way. Love your video and you both are very lovely people. I hope you will have a beautiful trip and make many meaningful, joyful and positive memories! :)
PS you should have given your boyfriend / husband a taste of Dutch licorice! You know, the salty kind that usually nobody likes except dutch and nordic people lol! Its always so funny 😅
Hahahaahah he’s tried before and HATED IT!! I love drop so much 😂😍 you’re right, there are many similarities between the Netherlands and Scandinavia!
I am Dutch, so yes I grew up with hagelslag. And it's delicious. Though these days I eat it on whole wheat bread.
Cute to see you revisit your old living space with fond memory's of our country. I didnt know the Rembrand house is in Leiden. Im going to Leiden tomorrow, I should stop by there
Definitely with a visit! The area immediately around it is also so peaceful and lovely to see!
for the coffeemachine stick heavy duty velcro on the bottom or magnets
Hi I am Dutch, I also used to study in Leiden and live in The Hague. The house you lived in I exactly know where it is :-) and yes Leiden has something magical even for us Dutch. But Delft has to most magic especially on a Saturday morning. It’s nice for me to see someone who actually is not Dutch feel so connected to our culture and cities. Thank for sharing your experience.
Maybe you remember that in 2006 there where big celebrations in Leiden because of the birth of Rembrandt 400 years ago, I remember partying in Leiden was so much fun. And not to forget het Leids ontzet. (3 october)
Oh yes Saturday morning is the best time for Leiden! I can still remember leaving the market with my hands full of flowers and kibbeling! 😍
It was such a wonderful place to spend time and it will always feel magical and special! I feel so lucky to be part of the group of people that got to call this place home at some point! 🤗😍
Also, I don’t remember the celebrations but I asked my mom and she remembers it well!! 😍
@@2Passports1Dream it is almost 20 years ago, and when I studied there it was in the mid 90’s. Times flies.
My best friend lives in the UK now and she has 2 boys and I alwys need to bring them hagelslag, calve pindakaas and stroopwafels. So happy for you that you had a good time. I even recognized Bodegraven!
Oh amazing!! 😍😍 hehe
14:45 For adults as well. I don't eat breakfast often, but if I do it's usually stuff like hagelslag, but I prefer it on beschuit instead of bread. Also really good with a thin layer of Nutella instead of butter! And yes, bread not toasted is the standard.
19:23 Dutch apple pie is the best ♥ About koffie verkeerd ('wrong coffee'), not sure if there is an English word for it. It's basically half warm milk, half coffee. Latte might come closest, but is made with espresso and steamed milk. us Dutchies don't go that fancy 😜
Loved the vid, and seeing how you felt being back after all those years! ❤
Ah amazing 😍😍 it’s so yummy hehe
Very nice video. Happy journey on your way to Switzerland. Just in case no one has mentioned it, the pindasaus on frites was sort of a happy accident/invention after the Dutch Indonesians began emigrating to the Netherlands in the 50s and 60s. It is actually sate sauce, sans the chilli pepper sambal, that is usually put on Indonesian kebab. And yes it is pretty much a Dutch thing.
Very good accident 😂
I would totally try hagalslak! Another terrific vlog. It's very nice to see your reactions to your former adopted home. For everyone who has moved on to other places, I'm guessing most of us have or will return and so I relate to your nostalgic emotions. I remember breaking into tears when I walked onto the tennis court at my school, where I taught myself to play and spent many years 😂. Lovely to see you both.
Oh that’s so nice 😍🤗 memories can really just come flooding back when you least expect it! So lovely 😍
So true, eh?
You should. It is spelled Hagelslag. I recommend at least trying the pure chocolate and milk chocolate. There are more flavors and even very sweet sugary ones but I would stick to the two basic chocolate ones to start. If you eat it once in a while then that’s fine, I don’t think anyone here really eats it daily
@@iamalexwolfI’m almost 70 years old and I think there hasn’t gone a day by without me eating hagelslag 😊 And I’m not even diabetic 😉
Beautiful video. I know the feeling, I've been living in the Netherlands (Den Haag) for 10 years now. It's amazing how one get to love a place as your own, live new things that will always stay with us forever. I'm glad you had good memories, enough to make you come back.
Safe travels.
Thank you very much for watching 🙏🏼
I grew up in Wassenaar, a village in between The Hague and Leiden. We lived on the Leiden side of the village, so my mum and I often went to Leiden when went to town. I love Leiden. Even when I left home to live on my own I moved to Leiden eventhough I studied in The Hague (it's only 12 minutes by train).
As a Dutch person living near Leiden en being born in The Hage it was so much fun to see you. Hagelslag is being eaten by children and adults. Koffie verkeerd is like A café latte. Or a cafe white. Lots of milk. Enjoy your time here.
Thank you very much for watching 🙏🏼
Welkom in Nederland! Leuk om jullie zo te zien genieten van Stroopwafels en Hagelslag. Veel Plezier!
Dankjewel 😍🤗
What a lovely couple the two of you are.
What a nice trip you are doing.
This was a sentimental journey to Leiden, but first Den Haag.
Coincidentally I was in Den Haag for a party in Het Paard, a well known venue.
I studied in Leiden for a short while, my Godson was born there, but I haven't been there to wander. I know some spots like the university, obviously, as well as the Museum voor Land en Volkenkunde (Museum of Land and Ethnology).
My hometown is Rotterdam.
Peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles is indeed what I grew up with. Try it with „ontbijtkoek" (translated as gingerbread, but that's not completely accurate, as many don't have ginger in it) which is what I still eat.
Enjoy the trip🌸
Oh how lovely!! 😍 Next time we come to the Netherlands we will have to visit Rotterdam! 🤗 Oooooo I’ve tried ontbijtkoek before and it was soooo soft and delicious 😍
Being Dutch, I am of course familiar with hagelslag. But my favourite is the vanilla and chocolate flakes that you can also buy.
Ooooooh 😍😍
SO nice to come back to Leiden, and see how much you're still connected to that beautiful city.
So amazing to be back❤️ only you were missing (& Valle ofc!) 🤗😍
As you may know, the Netherlands is split south/north over the naming of French fries. In the south they are called "friet" and in the north "patat" but you also read "patat friet" sometimes, although nobody says that. I think The Hague is in "patat" territory.
Oh no!!! Haha oops 😅 Should have called them patat!
@@2Passports1DreamEen Haag is South West
In New Zealand we have " hundreds and thousands fairy bread" it will be on table at any children's birthday parties and always gets devoured fast 😋 , it's very special feeling standing on old home soil,rather refreshing on the soul ❤️❤️
In Oz as well...😊😊
Sounds absolutely delicious 😍😍
You are a true Dutchie. I am Dutch and i love all ur suggestions
Hehehe ❤️❤️
I discovered your channel today. I love you both. Dutch guy here 😊
Thank you so much ❤️🇳🇱
Lovely episode guys, a little return to your older Asia-era vlog format which we really enjoyed. Happy travels as always, guys!
Thank you! We’re loving being back on the road
so wonderful. love the emotion. Huge hugs.
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Great views from Netherlands.
Do try the Pindakaas and Hagelslag on warm toasted bread! The Pindakaas will melt a bit and so will the Hagelslag, delicious!
Oooooh that actually sound so good!
That bread, butter and chocolate sprinkles combo is also extremely popular in Java. I spent a month there last year and had it for breakfast almost every day! haha And you're right, way better when its not toasted bread
Oh no way!! That’s awesome 😍 we must go to Java 👀🤗
Java was an old Dutch colony and they brought some habits with them. One of them is the hagelslag. And the Dutch brought the Indonesian cuisine back to the Netherlands, that why we eat pindakaas and saté saus
There is just one place for french fries and that is Reitz in Maastricht just across from the town hall.
Noted hehe!
Great to see you visit my hometown Leiden. Hope you liked coming back. Which high school did you go to??
You missed the Burcht! A small castle on a hill in the middle of the city centre where the old and new Rhine river meet. Great little secret.
Absolutely loved coming back! I went to an international school called the American School of The Hague (but it’s actually in Wassenaar haha!) 🤗 Oh something to keep for our next visit!
what a lovely couple you both are, I only find you today and I enjoine your video's. I am born in The Hague. worked and lived there til I was 24.
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼
You could try good quality nanotape to fixate the coffee machine.
We ate the hagelslag some 60 years ago, although it wasn't called such at our place. Nowadays I only would eat it when in great misery and nothing else were on hand. We also liked raw eggs with sugar back then.
Hahah nooooo it’s surely not as bad as raw eggs with sugar (which sounds interesting but not really yummy… 👀)
Thank you for another wonderful adventure.
Thank you for watching 🤗
where did you get the cute pink and green shirt?! oh and welcome (back) to the netherlands! 🇳🇱
Pull and bear ☺️🙏🏼
i live in leiden i feel the same nostalgic way everytime i come back
❤️ that’s so lovely
French fries (Friet or Patat) are actually from Belgium. For some time Belgium was part of the Netherlands, that is why the best fries are in the Netherlands and Belgium. 😊
Ohhhh 😍🤗 makes sense! Absolutely delicious!
Great vid as usual…just a cheap and easy fix for your coffee machine…put two hooks either side of the machine in the wall and put a elastic bungee round to secure 👍
Oh yes that’s a good idea!! 🤗
Such a stunning place to visit, Leiden looks so nice, the thought of visiting in a campervan is so cool, I hope one day my wife and I have the courage to do it. We worry so much about finding places to park up safely which I think stops us from adventures like yours, awesome channel guy's
Safe travels Lee
Try it in the Uk first you will be ok! Maybe get a smaller van than ours lol 😂
The main difference between our hagelslag and random sprinkles, is the cacao content. They need a minimum % to be legit.
Untoasted is definitely the best way: a soft white bun, with real butter and hagelslag is divine. Toast just melts the hagelslag, at that point, you might as well get a chocolate spread.
Not just that, sprinkles in other countries are often auger coated (like venz hagelslag here) which makes them quite different. Main reason why I don't like the venz brand much.
They’re the best sprinkles ever and honestly I can’t believe they’re not sold in more countries! Better than Nutella!
Hagelslag + pindakaas has sustained me for 22 years.
If your feeling spicy: you can either add a some spice to your sandwich, or throw it into the toaster, or even better both!
Ooooh that sounds good 😍
Beautiful video, lots of memories and emotions ❤
Thank you so much! ❤️
I'm a sucker for a good apple pie/cake, it looked delicious with the cream😋
It was absolutely incredible 😍😍
Yes it’s beautiful loved the ringing bells this is your home or it was
Wow! How awesome it was to live in a house which is so historic. I'm a history buff myself, and I would love to have that chance. ❤
It was a really lovely place to live 😍 I’m so lucky my mom had good taste in location hehe!
@@2Passports1Dream My wife and I will be following you all throughout your journey. What you two are doing is something that people like us can only dream of.
Oo… I’ve never tried chocolate sprinkle with peanut butter. Interesting. We (in Indonesia) usually have it with regular butter or margarine.
Try with peanut butter! It is amazing!
Try a warm croissant with salty cream butter and hagelslag for breakfast. It is such a treat.
Oh wow what a combo! 😍
Your history to your country ❤
Bread, peanutbutter and hagelslag is the best!!! Great pronunciation of hagelslag with a great dutch g, wich is not easy when your not dutch!!!
Hehe thank you!! 😍😍
A koffie verkeerd is basically a latte but made with filtered coffee.
I am from the Netherlands, I love the Part about the Peanut sauce over Frites.... But the best Peanut sauce, you can get, you have to go to Indonesia, or Suriname..... then you get the real one.
And I love you're dutch tradition , Peanutbutter with Chocolate sprinkles, oftewel Pindakaas met hagelsag, ik doe altijd nog roomboter op het broodje eronder.
And not only young ones, or some older people, i am almost 50 and still eating it.......
I am from Alphen aan den Rijn, born in Amsterdam, and had my Highschool also in Leiden......
That way... I love you're story, and reminds me also....
Oh that’s so lovely! Thank you 🤗🤗
Dutchies from almost 60 here, we still have bread with hagelslag on our age. My wife takes the “puur” and I take the “melk” variant
Ooooh good to know! We can keep eating it until forever 😍😍
You should definitely try herring and kibbeling.
Hehehe 😅😅
No idea why this came up in my recommendations but was pleasantly surprised when you mentioned Leiden. Brought back so many memories as I was working there in 1990. Unfortunately due to the time since I left & the relatively short time I was there means what you showed in the video didn't have any familiarity. I had a great time there & wanted to stay there for good. My first childs upcomming birth made that impossible along with my girlfriends reluctance to even move out of her road, let alone country 🤣 I often wonder how my life would have been had we moved there.
Oh that’s so lovely! 😍 It’s such a nice place… it’s impossible to know all of the what ifs, I’m sure that the path you ended up taking instead was the one that was meant to be!
As a dutchman it is hartwarming to see how much you enjoyed your boterham met hagelslag. Nice to see you having positive chilhood memories about the Netherlands, altough I’m not quite sure about the hagelslag-pindakaas combination.
Hehe it’s so lovely to be back 😍 (oh you really must try putting pindakaas under your hagelslag 😍)
@@2Passports1Dream It has been my go to topping since childhood. But you need to put butter on the bread, then the pindakaas and then the hagelslag. Makes it less dry and sticky.
I still eat witbrood with roomboter and pindakaas and hagelslag. De puur variety. Your Dutch is getting better each episode! Eet smakelijk! By the way: Zegveld is in the Zuid Holland cheese region! Do try that as well 🤪
Oh delicious 😍😍 hehe thank you very much! 🤗
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We will be back 👀😍😍
Loving this video....Adriana love the look you get with each childhood memory you were having. And your breakfast with the sprinkles you will fit in if you come to Australia ...here we have "fairy bread" . normally for children's parties (but adults like it too ) it is bread, butter and hundreds and thousands (the little round candy sprinkles they put on cookies and cakes. Some will argue and say you should use sprinkles instead. (personal preference) but the sprinkles aren't as hard.
Need to try fairy bread when we are in AUS 😀