Welcome to Belgium, hope you enjoy your stay with us and find the time to explore. It's a small country, but it never ceases to amaze me how much there is to see and discover!
Very cool, thanks for sharing. I lived in Brussels as a teen from 1970 to 1974 and haven't had a chance to go back... until now. Leaving next week to spend 3 weeks there with my wife and daughters. It's been 48 years and I can't wait to go back! C'est parti!
So interesting as always. In 2 weeks we are travelling to Switzerland and then onto Bruges for a few days. Both favourite places we have been before, so I'll look forward to your Bruges film. Our first holiday since before the pandemic, the first time we have felt brave enough to travel!!!
Since Belgium is not far away from my hometown Cologne and because I like it (used to live there), I'm often visiting this country (even more often than the Netherlands). I was there yesterday (Ardennes). The Friterie (2:27) is probably the most famous one. I bet your dad remembered it, because it's also very old.
40 years that's a lot, nice that you guys can now explore the places together. Three generations of a family together at a place from the past, that's incredible. Wish you a wonderful time 🍀👍👏
Tanner your dad’s excitement getting Back to Brussels was just so sweet , lovely that he got to go back ❤️ Revisit great Memories 🥰.( How long are your parents over for ?) 🤣🤣Rissa your Face at all the waffels it said enough 😋😋 just had to giggle ,known you can’t resist !! 😜 The Flower carpet was absolutely stunning 😍 wauw. Here in the Netherlands they have Bloemencorso( Flower parade) largest spring Festival in Netherlands in the Bollen streek .( Flower regions) its absoluut Beautiful the hard work put in to make the Floats or designs in gardens Just stunning . Bruges is a lovley city ,been 3 x and enjoy it every time 😜Don’t forget to Get Belguim chocolate 😋😋😋 plenty of shops to choose from😜. Aww Willa chatting at the End. So cute. Have a wonderful time with your parents / inlaws Great video . Have a Good weekend🥰🥰
Welcome to Belgium! Thank you for those beautiful images of Brussel's Grand Place. I have been living in (eastern) Belgium my whole life and I've never seen the flower carpet...
Just great 👍👍 so nice to see, you had such good time with your parents. I have never been to Brussels but now I think I should go and see it by myself 😀
Great video of arriving in Belgium. It must have really been special for your family to be there, after your dad's mission in 1980. The architecture and beauty of the building is really amazing. Glad that you had footage before, as they were setting up and the finished product of the Carpet of Flowers. I can see that it will be difficult for the 3 of you, when Tanner's parents have to leave and go back home.
The tower buildings of Mutsaard, Laken/Laeken. Some weird people live there. Curfew at 10pm, After that, you're not allowed to make any noise. Washing machine turning, preparing food, even walking around. Or you'll have some neighbour banging at your door. Had a girlfriend who lived there until she couldn't take it anymore. The police regularly patrols their parking lot too.
Tanner's dad lived in Belgium 40 years ago...I think to myself, that's a long time in the past. Then you say 1980...Oh dear....I was 16 then, was that really over 40 years ago? 😱 I spent a week in Belgium when I was fourteen, near Arlon. Time flys.... Happy to see you and your parents enjoyed your visit. 🙂
@@OurStorytoTell in 2015 I took part in a round-trip through Belgium (one week). In Brussels I loved "Smoutebollen" (deep-fried dough balls, a bit like "Schmalzkuchen" on German Christmas Markets, typical for Belgium and the Netherlands). In Belgium you also should visit Brügge and Gent, very lovely towns.
We may be a small country but we welcome any visitors/in flemish: wij zijn misschien een klein land maar we verwelkomen alle gasten! Tip:try belgium chocolates and the waffles there great🇧🇪🇧🇪
You ate Belgian fries. The name French fries dates from world War 1 when american soldiers ate them at the Belgian Frontline where fresh was spoken, but Belgium is bilingual country. Majority of the people speak flemish(kind of dutch) and the rest speaks French, so they thought they were in France which was not the case.....
omg u father, i working just at "grand place" 2 street where u see the flowers (the day of u are there), and "avenue mutsaard i living that before in the big building" (on the video ) i have 34 years old. and i remember when i'm living in "avenue mutsaard" i see a lot of missionari person ! great :P ( 14 years a go ) hahahha google killed me 😂😂 incredible destiny ! ( say hello too you father if they see my message. )
I live in the US, and am currently relearning my German. Question for Tanner. What type of work do you do that allows you to live in Germany for that long? I heard you have to leave after 90 days so I would love to know. Thanks so much!
"Dance Monkey" was the perpect song for background music. I thought Willa would have gone wild by hearing this sound - but honestly, it' snot her music☹
Hi together, I have never been to Brussels and yes amazing architecture. Once as a kid at 8 I have been to Lüttich, Liege with coal mining nearby and I remember it wasnt that clean in the city. Mhhm belgium waffles, soooo good. Good on ya Tanner to take your dad to this place even he doesnt remember everything but I guess he got some feelings back. May I ask on what kind of missionary trip he has been ? At the end I had to laugh. Willa is more and more to able to communicate and time will come when you Risa will be speechless about kids logic. 😀 Just a hint for you Tanner, when both girls starts discussing and may be fighting who is right, who is not, stay out of the dicussion who ever will call you for help, for assistances, otherwise both girls will hold together again and will blame you for everything. 😀 As I mentioned several time before, Its a shame Willa will not realy remember where she has been and what she mad. May be this time she will remember having a really good time with grand ma and grand dad. When I see such a good connection I am sure Willa will sleep overnight with them from time to time. Waiting for the huge flower carpet.
Which Belgium? Flanders or Wallonia? Flanders speaks Dutch and Wallonia speaks French. That's why street signs in Brussels have to be in two languages. I don't even know how the story ended like this. The north of Belgium didn't want to stay with the Netherlands and the south didn't want to stay French. Thus was assembled a country that constantly stresses that it doesn't fit together but has no choice but to stay together. Then there is the German minority in the east of the country. But Belgium is also particularly rich in history. Belgium got large parts of Luxembourg. Only a small part of Luxembourg remains today. But today, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg often work together because they have a common history and same interests.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The whole country was French between 1793 and 1815, then Dutch from 1815 (end of Napoleon) and 1830 (Belgian revolution). So the South could not STAY French because it was Dutch in 1830. At the time, French was the language of the elites, in the South and the North. Common people spoke a wide variety of dialects, either Roman (Walloon, Picard) or Germanic (Flemish). So the South started to speak French, but the North did not want to and started speaking Dutch.
Read your history. Saying things like we didn't want to be french or dutch shows a lot of ignorance from you.you can't talk about Belgian history without the Spanish imperium and the wars against the orange house and the Nederlands. Even after the independence they were plans to anex Belgium to France but it was disregarded by the other majors powers in Europe.Belgium was build upon agreements and as a buffer to protect England and avoid conflicts.the so called independence war wasn't even a war.again,read your history.
If you want to enjoy a Liege waffle like us belgians do, dont take toppings, Liege waffles should not have toppings (They add it to try to get more tourists to buy it). Dont forget to experience a real frituur and our chocolate (most eaten chocolate by us belgians is Cote D'or). And yes belgium was a great country before politicians ruined it and now we are even graduatly becoming a minority in own country(i am already a minority in my city and brussels has 18% Belgians...). I will be permanently leaving Belgium beginning of octobre. Thank you European and Belgian politicians for ruining our country.
Welcome to Belgium, hope you enjoy your stay with us and find the time to explore. It's a small country, but it never ceases to amaze me how much there is to see and discover!
Very cool, thanks for sharing. I lived in Brussels as a teen from 1970 to 1974 and haven't had a chance to go back... until now. Leaving next week to spend 3 weeks there with my wife and daughters. It's been 48 years and I can't wait to go back! C'est parti!
Great vlog, nice to see Tanner spending time with his dad... Belgium is beautiful place
It's so good to spend time with family. Belgium looks lovely!
So good for the soul! 💛 It is!
Welcooome :), this is so cool to see you enjoy our beautiful capital city! Have fun :))
So interesting as always. In 2 weeks we are travelling to Switzerland and then onto Bruges for a few days. Both favourite places we have been before, so I'll look forward to your Bruges film. Our first holiday since before the pandemic, the first time we have felt brave enough to travel!!!
Wow Belgium is beautiful city thanks sir greeting you from somaliland
Since Belgium is not far away from my hometown Cologne and because I like it (used to live there), I'm often visiting this country (even more often than the Netherlands).
I was there yesterday (Ardennes).
The Friterie (2:27) is probably the most famous one. I bet your dad remembered it, because it's also very old.
Love it! We make a visit to Cologne after Belgium so STAY TUNED! 🎥😊
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I hope you like it. It's so hot - we need some rain.
@@OurStorytoTell Thats cool. In my opinion the western cities in Germany are more similar to american cities. Especially Frankfurt..
40 years that's a lot, nice that you guys can now explore the places together. Three generations of a family together at a place from the past, that's incredible. Wish you a wonderful time 🍀👍👏
It really was so special! 💛 Thanks for the well wishes!
Can't wait to go to Belgium with my loved ones
Tanner your dad’s excitement getting Back to Brussels was just so sweet , lovely that he got to go back ❤️
Revisit great Memories 🥰.( How long are your parents over for ?)
🤣🤣Rissa your Face at all the waffels it said enough 😋😋 just had to giggle ,known you can’t resist !! 😜
The Flower carpet was absolutely stunning 😍 wauw.
Here in the Netherlands they have Bloemencorso( Flower parade) largest spring Festival in Netherlands in the Bollen streek .( Flower regions) its absoluut Beautiful the hard work put in to make the Floats or designs in gardens Just stunning .
Bruges is a lovley city ,been 3 x and enjoy it every time 😜Don’t forget to Get Belguim chocolate 😋😋😋 plenty of shops to choose from😜.
Aww Willa chatting at the End. So cute.
Have a wonderful time with your parents / inlaws Great video .
Have a Good weekend🥰🥰
God bless! Have an enjoyable trip together !!
welcome to belguim bro, hope u enjoyed our beautiful small country with 100000000 languages
So nice thank you for sharing! Great experience for all of you. 😘
Thanks for watching! 💛
Welcome to Belgium! Thank you for those beautiful images of Brussel's Grand Place. I have been living in (eastern) Belgium my whole life and I've never seen the flower carpet...
Da hast du etwas verpasst! Echt schön.
Hello to you in Belgium 👋 Maybe one day you can make it there? 😊
Just great 👍👍 so nice to see, you had such good time with your parents. I have never been to Brussels
but now I think I should go and see it by myself 😀
We definitely think you should! 😊
Great video of arriving in Belgium. It must have really been special for your family to be there, after your dad's mission in 1980. The architecture and beauty of the building is really amazing. Glad that you had footage before, as they were setting up and the finished product of the Carpet of Flowers. I can see that it will be difficult for the 3 of you, when Tanner's parents have to leave and go back home.
Oh yes for sure! We have loved having them here! 💗
Ohhhh willa ur so cute ,,enjoy your time w/d parents.
The tower buildings of Mutsaard, Laken/Laeken. Some weird people live there. Curfew at 10pm, After that, you're not allowed to make any noise. Washing machine turning, preparing food, even walking around. Or you'll have some neighbour banging at your door. Had a girlfriend who lived there until she couldn't take it anymore. The police regularly patrols their parking lot too.
Wow! That would be quite the experience living there and experiencing that!
Tanner's dad lived in Belgium 40 years ago...I think to myself, that's a long time in the past.
Then you say 1980...Oh dear....I was 16 then, was that really over 40 years ago? 😱
I spent a week in Belgium when I was fourteen, near Arlon.
Time flys....
Happy to see you and your parents enjoyed your visit. 🙂
Haha crazy the difference in perspective 😂 Really cool you’ve been to Belgium before. Thanks for the sweet comment.
@@OurStorytoTell in 2015 I took part in a round-trip through Belgium (one week). In Brussels I loved "Smoutebollen" (deep-fried dough balls, a bit like "Schmalzkuchen" on German Christmas Markets, typical for Belgium and the Netherlands). In Belgium you also should visit Brügge and Gent, very lovely towns.
Did you go to 't Kelderke? They have great authentic Belgian food. Tanner and his father were standing right in front of it in The grand square.
We didn’t but man that sounds tasty!! 😋
did you just called our Juicy Belgian fries "French Fries" ?
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Dear Friends
Willa is killing it, she is so cute like we say in german : I could eat her. She is an angel. ❤❤ Welcome to Europe Oma and Opa 😊😊
Thanks so much! 😊 We feel the same about her!
So cute if you like Brussels
Do you know, there is as well a „Jeanneke Pis“ (Girl) Not far away from Manneken Pis. 😊
We may be a small country but we welcome any visitors/in flemish: wij zijn misschien een klein land maar we verwelkomen alle gasten!
Tip:try belgium chocolates and the waffles there great🇧🇪🇧🇪
I hope you had the chance to taste the OG fries from Belgium. 🙂
Oh yes just wait for our video on Sunday! 😋
nice video,have fun in Brugge.
Thank you😊
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Vive la belgique
You ate Belgian fries. The name French fries dates from world War 1 when american soldiers ate them at the Belgian Frontline where fresh was spoken, but Belgium is bilingual country. Majority of the people speak flemish(kind of dutch) and the rest speaks French, so they thought they were in France which was not the case.....
omg u father, i working just at "grand place" 2 street where u see the flowers (the day of u are there), and "avenue mutsaard i living that before in the big building" (on the video ) i have 34 years old. and i remember when i'm living in "avenue mutsaard" i see a lot of missionari person ! great :P ( 14 years a go )
hahahha google killed me 😂😂 incredible destiny !
( say hello too you father if they see my message. )
Great Video, I also live in Belgium and make vlogs. I would have come to say hello to you guys, may be next time 😇
I live in the US, and am currently relearning my German. Question for Tanner. What type of work do you do that allows you to live in Germany for that long? I heard you have to leave after 90 days so I would love to know. Thanks so much!
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Hi Rissa and Tanner, will you guys maybe talk about your faith? As a German it's really interesting to learn about other religions. Just wondering.
Wild guess: they are Mormon or JW.
Good question! We have shared a bit about it on Instagram in our stories. You can go to the Q&A highlight to see those saved!😊
@@OurStorytoTell I don't have Insta, so Mormon or JW?
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Mormon (but its actually called latter day saints)
I asked in a comment a year ago and they said yes.
Wow! Then your Dad speaks Flemish and French.
"Dance Monkey" was the perpect song for background music. I thought Willa would have gone wild by hearing this sound - but honestly, it' snot her music☹
Haha she was too busy being starstruck watching the performing! 🤩
Hi together, I have never been to Brussels and yes amazing architecture. Once as a kid at 8 I have been to Lüttich, Liege with coal mining nearby and I remember it wasnt that clean in the city. Mhhm belgium waffles, soooo good. Good on ya Tanner to
take your dad to this place even he doesnt remember everything but I guess he got some feelings back. May I ask on what kind of missionary trip he has been ? At the end I had to laugh. Willa is more and more to able to communicate and time will come when you Risa will be speechless about kids logic. 😀 Just a hint for you Tanner, when both girls starts discussing and may be fighting who is right, who is not, stay out of the dicussion who ever will call you for help, for assistances, otherwise both girls will hold together again and will blame you for everything. 😀 As I mentioned several time before, Its a shame Willa will not realy remember where she has been and what she mad. May be this time she will remember having a really good time with grand ma and grand dad. When I see such a good connection I am sure Willa will sleep overnight with them from time to time. Waiting for the huge flower carpet.
Don't say "french fries" in Belgium, you will have surprises :) Better to use "pommes frites".
Haha good tip to know!! 😊 You’ll see in our next video that we might have used that term, but luckily nothing happened! 😬
If I were in Brussels I would definitely check out the European Union Headquarters as well
Ohh thanks for the tip! 😊
@@OurStorytoTell and the many parcs in Brussels. The pond of Ixelles + abbaye de la cambre,... the upper side of Brussels.
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Which Belgium? Flanders or Wallonia?
Flanders speaks Dutch and Wallonia speaks French.
That's why street signs in Brussels have to be in two languages.
I don't even know how the story ended like this. The north of Belgium didn't want to stay with the Netherlands and the south didn't want to stay French.
Thus was assembled a country that constantly stresses that it doesn't fit together but has no choice but to stay together. Then there is the German minority in the east of the country.
But Belgium is also particularly rich in history.
Belgium got large parts of Luxembourg. Only a small part of Luxembourg remains today.
But today, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg often work together because they have a common history and same interests.
You forgot something:
Brussels is officially bilingual.
A small part of Wallonia is German speaking.
The language that is most spoken in Brussels is actually Arabic today, believe it or not
It's a bit more complicated than that. The whole country was French between 1793 and 1815, then Dutch from 1815 (end of Napoleon) and 1830 (Belgian revolution). So the South could not STAY French because it was Dutch in 1830. At the time, French was the language of the elites, in the South and the North. Common people spoke a wide variety of dialects, either Roman (Walloon, Picard) or Germanic (Flemish). So the South started to speak French, but the North did not want to and started speaking Dutch.
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No, it's not.
It's French, English and Dutch.
Read your history. Saying things like we didn't want to be french or dutch shows a lot of ignorance from you.you can't talk about Belgian history without the Spanish imperium and the wars against the orange house and the Nederlands. Even after the independence they were plans to anex Belgium to France but it was disregarded by the other majors powers in Europe.Belgium was build upon agreements and as a buffer to protect England and avoid conflicts.the so called independence war wasn't even a war.again,read your history.
Enyoi Brugge
You can't come to Belgium and call them French fries
You're right!! haha our bad!
I think in the past, u got a Boy - but now i see it´s a Girl. ☺
If you want to enjoy a Liege waffle like us belgians do, dont take toppings, Liege waffles should not have toppings (They add it to try to get more tourists to buy it). Dont forget to experience a real frituur and our chocolate (most eaten chocolate by us belgians is Cote D'or). And yes belgium was a great country before politicians ruined it and now we are even graduatly becoming a minority in own country(i am already a minority in my city and brussels has 18% Belgians...). I will be permanently leaving Belgium beginning of octobre. Thank you European and Belgian politicians for ruining our country.
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