as a dutch girl i am always surprised what i find normal but foreigner so special. sometimes a foreigner has to open your eyes to realize again how beautiful something is again
I've lived in Nijmegen for several years and somehow never thought of it any other way than just normal. I even thought for quite a while that it was an annoying city, because of all the hilly parts. Up and down and up and down :')
Also some museums just give you a massive discount, but as been said before always check the museums you want to visit before getting the museumkaart (museumcard).
Fortunately Nijmegen in the picture, there are many beautiful cities in the Netherlands not only Amsterdam and The Hague, this is my beautiful city Nijmegen I have been living in England for a few years and have not been in the Netherlands for 2 years because of the corona I miss it well. When a real Nijmegen resident drives across the Waalbrug, we always say we're at home, that's how it feels too. Nice comment Thank you.
Thanks for showing Nijmegen to the world. I live there for 17 years now and fell in love with it. Some remarks from my side: 0:27 the statue is Moenen, which is the devil. He is part of a local saga. Moenen seduced Mariken (her statue can be seen at 14:57), but in the end love won 2:26 there are brushes that slow your bike down when you go down, and there is a little conveyor belt to help you go up. Especially for the heavier electric bikes 4:42 Yes, a lot of the old Nijmegen was destroyed by friendly fire. More than 800 people were killed, including children of a primary school. There is a monument of a swing to commemerate that 5:05 this is the Kronenburg Park, where Frank Boeijen sang about. You reacted to that song. 7:11 I gonna see Anneke van Giersbergen performe live in this church on 13 May 2022! 9:09 The bridge in the background is called De Oversteek (The Crossing). It is build on the spot where American soldiers crossed the river in rubber boats during WWII. 48 soldiers died. There are 48 lightpoles at the bridge that go on one by one and every day of the year at least one veteran and civilians walk that sunset march to honour the American fallen soldiers 9:59 The most famous Nijmegen song goes like this: “Even if I have to crawl, go barefeet. I want to hear St. Steven bang just one more time” 10:09 this park used to be a parking place full of cars 12:50 this is museum De Bastei with old Roman and medieval remains Every year Nijmegen has the world famous 4 Days Marches (with 7 days of crazy parties, including the Snollebollekes). If you are here the third week of July, you can party with us!
Fun fact, my hometown Maastricht and Nijmegen are competing for years about which of the two is the oldest city in the Netherlands. You should check out a clip of Maastricht too. Practically the same age but so different in style. I've been to Nijmegen a couple of times and it makes me feel like I'm at home. Thumbs up for your vids man, love your channel. And Nijmegen; you're absolutely beautiful ♥️
I was born near Novio Magus 👍 Oh and actually the further south you go in the Netherlands, the softer the G becomes. In Nijmegen it is very soft already.
HCR, our country is SMALL, so any growth... anywhere, needs to be organized perfectly. That is WHY the entire Netherlands is so utterly organized. It's the best use of space. NL is tetris to perfection, more or less. Quaint... it's just ...VERY small and every little bit of space we get, we care for, so it looks nice.
10.52 That's a 'mergpijp' not a 'mergel' pijp. Mergel is a kind of limestone (marl?). Merg means 'marrow'. Every supermarket sells them. Or you buy a fresh one at the bakery. It's more expensive though but worth it.
Your obsession with 'the frikadel' is so funny 😆. By the way: it wasn't mergpijp later on in the video. That was 'bokkepoot'. Looks the same, but it is a sort of a cookie. Very tasty! Looking forward to your reactions when you are able to visite The Netherlands!
where you stopped the video (at 15:20 in your own) are not the pastry that he was eating earlier, which was a mergpijp. what you see around 15:20 into your own video is a bokkepoot which is more of a biscuit/cookie.
Museum cards can still be bought. You can use them in almost all museums, also the Open Air museum in Arnhem (go there if you're over here, it's beautiful)
The open air museum is great. It is basically a big park with all kinds of historic houses, a cloths washing business, a primary school of about 200 years ago, a mill, different historic factories, middle-aged toys to play with. And people dressed up in clothes of that area, show how life was in that time. You can have a nice stroll in the park, have coffee with cake on a degrade and check out a part of Dutch history.
14.50 That's cool. That's the Valkhof museum. We knew somewhere who worked there who actually restored paintings for the museum. He took us 'behind the scenes' of the museum. I loved it.
OMG Thank you so much for reacting tho this i recemended it to you thank you so much you even pronounced it good good job! maybe one more video about the history of Nijmegen (The Roman’s) and btw Nijmegen has a festival called de vierdaagse ( 4days of walking) its so cool but still thank you so much man!❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
at 9.09 you see the third Nijmegen bridge to the far left where the 82nd. Airborne crossed the river in small boats and bypassed the German defence, (they call it up to this day Little Omaha, refering to Omaha beach DdAy 6 june 1944), crossed the river in small boats in full sight of the German defenders, attacked the main bridge from the north, while the British Grenadier Guards attacked from the south, that was how Nijmegen was liberated..... i will send you a vid. on discord with the famous Waalcrossing from the famous movie A Bridge Too Far. ...
This bridge is called De Oversteek, which means the crossing. At sunset a veteran crosses the bridge starting at the Nijmeegse side of the bridge. As soon as the citylights in Nijmegen turn on, the veteran starts marching over the bridge. On the bridge there are 48 light poles, one for every American soldier who died during the Waalcrossing on 20 october 1944. These light poles turn on one by one. At the end of the bridge the veteran goes down the stairs to a memorial monument with the 48 names. At this monument the veteran salutes to honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Everybody is free to join the veteran. The sunset march takes place every day, 365 days a year. They have been doing this since 19 october 2014, so today will be the 2577 time the sunset march will take place. My dad is one of the veterans who walks the sunset march regularly, and when he walks I walk with him. On Facebook you can find it under Sunset March (beautiful pictures and video’s) I’ve been watching lots of your reactions and getting the impression that you like the Netherlands. You even got an orange t-shirt 😉 So if you ever planning on visiting our beautiful country, I’ll be more then happy to show you around in Nijmegen, eat some mergpijpjes, and maybe we can also go to a concert (Ladies of Soul would be great). Meanwhile I’ll keep enjoying your reactions.
Yes! Lived there for avout 8 years. In the middle of nature, by an old demolished brick factory in a 100 years old horse stable😊, with the river as my backyard, looking at the skyline😊. Yet only 15 minutes by bike from city centre. The road there wasnt even paved, which is absurdly primitive for Dutch terms😂. Everybody always came to the beaches for recreation, I came there to go home😊. I still miss it. So much. Had to move when my house burned down....
Awesome this video about my home ‘town’. Haha “you gotta use “ghrhe” ..” … true, but, actually, his wasn’t that far of either. In the south of the Netherlands we speak with a soft “g” that sounds a lot different from the hard gurgly sound used in the rest of the country.
Since I study for my master in Arteducation the Museumkaart really comes in handy 'cause I have to visit a lot of museums and work with them! With just like 3 visits to different museums all over the country I already had my money out of it. Love that card haha!
Did you know that before these huge clocks are being used to inform citizens about the time...there were sort of sundials divided in 40 parts... Each part was called a moment (yes...that moment you use almost daily)...and was similar to 90 seconds...or 1,5 minute.
The same river you just saw is the same river ho is next to my village of Ochten and his name is the river Waal. Lots of big commercial boats on it. Haha
And now, and this is huge, our great friends to the south who we love so much BELGIUM (we make jokes of them, but we love them) THIS IS FASCINATING BELGIUM th-cam.com/video/fx2Z5ZD_Rbo/w-d-xo.html OK back to the Netherlands this is LIMBURG th-cam.com/video/LWc0K83mZrk/w-d-xo.html
I life only 20 minutes from Nijmegen in the little vilage called Ochten. Its in Gelderland 2 haha.. Nijmegen is a great city .. Lost of cool cafes restaurants and historic buildings . 😘👍😁
The cornie rides in Holland are very well maintained. They travel around in Holland from city to city in the summer. They build it up an check it every time. The company’s are licensed and checked often. In Holland it is called : kermis
Nijmegen is one of the oldest university cities in the Netherlands. You will probably mainly see students sitting on the grass enjoying the beautiful weather. Mergpijpje: cake with marzipan shell (no white chocolate) dipped at the ends in dark chocolate. It’s called “Mergpijpje” because it looks like a bone with marrow in it.
16:20 Hi. Actually in the south/south east of the Netherlands, which includes Nijmegen, they speak the 'g' as a soft 'g', while in other areas the hard 'g' is more common. You know, the kind you feel in your throat.
A Mergpijp! Sooo good😋 it's a tiny cake with layers of cream and raspberryjam. Covered with marzipan dipped in dark chocolat. (Delicious but very sweet.) The name means marrowbone.
we have like so many good snacks that we forget it's not internationally known so we don't mention them. Do you know about 'Gevulde koeken'? they are truly great.
The carnival rides in Europe, especially Germany and Netherlands are tested multiple times in year. We have special government agencies to check those things on safety. Also the rides in amusement parks have those check's.
I like Nijmegen. I've been there a few times. Even though it's about 65 miles from where I live, it's part of the transit district that we have here, so if you have a local bus pass, you can also go to a few places in the Netherlands that are close to the border. It takes forever to get there, but there was a time when I didn't have much to do, so I didn't care about that. I've always wanted to go back there by car, but with Covid rules changing every week I postponed that trip to a later date.
I grew up with my museum yearcard , my bank had a deal with the museumcard organisation so your bankcard doubled as a museumyearcard. Free acces to all musea.....was great.
Ongeveer 2000 jaar geleden was Nijmegen,bezet door de Romeinen. Er zijn nederzetting gevonden in en rond om Nijmegen. Dit heb ik allemaal geleerd in 1992. Toen ik 2.5 weken in het ziekenhuis lag in Groesbeek, een klein plaatsje naast Nijmegen. Groetjes uit Spakenburg Nederland. P.s. Spakenburg is a old fhising town in the provincie of Utrecht. Whit a market every Saterday Whit more than a 100 stands. And only a 7 minuten boatride from the provincie of Flevoland. Bukkes - Ming Dârrep Videoclip / Ben de Graaf th-cam.com/video/ObkcGwaUq2M/w-d-xo.html Bukkes - Héé Keeltsie / mvdjagt th-cam.com/video/uEWUnN5swcc/w-d-xo.html Videoclip Bukkes - Tetteren , Hi res / Ben de Graaf th-cam.com/video/txitu9LJWgk/w-d-xo.html
Museumcards are still a thing here. And Mergpijpjes are amazing my son is an Mergpijpje-Addict . But make sure when you are in the Netherlands . To get your hands on Speculaas 🤤 or the cream Speculoos to eat on bread . That is the best !
2.30 when I went to highschool I had to do that twice a day. You had the choice, cycle all the way over the bridge or take the stairs and push your bike up through those tracks. Just a matter of holding your bike up, the track will guide it. You have to push it though.
Born in Nijmegen. Know the history. But this was such a sweet walking around with a real friendly guy that loved the city his girlfriend showed him around . Well done.
LOL like your enthousiasm about Nijmegen...one of the oldest city on the east side of the country. Nijmegen has a university, is a nice place to be on the river de Waal, people are friendly, modest not as blunt and upfront as in Amsterdam or Rotterdam. The atmosfere of the city is openly progressive in many ways. Lot of different little shops wich emphasizes the variety of people living there.
@14:30 you can get a month museumcard for tourists as well, dont need a dutch residence for it, its a pretty permanent thing theres also similar things for other attractions where you pay a discounted lumpsum and then just get to pick and choose where to go, some citys like rotterdam have local things as well, if you do a bit of searching (im sure someone can help if you cant find) its worth the effort if you plan on doing multiple things, theres a whole budget to promote cultural activities regardless of peoples income and a good cooperation between the different musea and other attractions around ... and theres a lot of them, i would think you can probably get your moneys worth compared to full tickets in a day or 2
maybe small detail but...ok so there is this myth amongst non-dutch that the only way to talk proper dutch is to use the hard G...this is not the case for many dutch accents. Yes, some dutch people use the very throated G, the most dominant accent does this...but not all! Lots of Dutch people pronounce the G as a velar frigative (think pronunciation of the H in some british English variaties).
Im a carny and I'll clear this up for ya: Carnaval rides have to get checked every two years in the Netherlands. If even the smallest safety issue is found, even if its not dangerous, youre not allowed to open with it.
@@patriciatheunissen1262oh great.. we have some nice hofjes in the Hague. I guess it's nice to have both. Nijmegen area has some more nature, farming, nice forest and open fields. But couldn't do without the beach either. Thanks I was wondering.
@@1993hermans 45.000 people do the walking. 1.5 million visitor to watch the walkers and to attend the summer festivities. For one week the center of the town is packed with festivities. It starts around noon with all kinds of childrens stuff, street theater, music etc, and it goes on to about midnight. There is all kinds of music everywhere. Friday evening is the visies. It is basically the finale of the 4 days walking march. Many walkers will visite then the center. You can recognize them by the careful way they walk (blisters) and by the medal they are wearing. Many, many nationalities. Nijmegen is in that week a very international city.
My town! You can walk to Germany from here, lol. On a bike it's 20 minutes. They find old stuff everywhere they dig here and by European treaty they are obligated to do archeological research. They even found a Roman mummy in a sarcophagus in a main street in the old town. The birdhouses are close to where I live (I live outside of the old town but just). Old town is almost car free, so pretty quiet. Actually this area we cal the Benedenstad as the old center with the church is on a hill. I've seen some concerts in the church, including John Cale, it's used for other things than services.
16.08 I wouldn't do that either, but not because the maintenance isn't good. Rules in The Netherlands are EXTREMELY strict so the maintenance will be ok, but no way I'd go in a thing like that
I think the ones you saw in the clip from the market weren't mergpijpjes but bokkenpootjes - "buck's legs/paws" - which is almond meringue dipped in chocolate
Laura is the only person I ever heard calling the sweet treat a ‘mergelpijp’. Everyone else I know of calls it a ‘mergpijp’
True. I was correcting her both times....
True
@@MrBillybonka O no a bokkenpoot is very different
@@MrBillybonka Bokkenpoot is not the same as a mergpijp. Easiest identifiable difference is a mergpijp is soft, a bokkenpoot is crunchy.
@@MrBillybonka dat is een andere soort, mergpijp is 1 deel, met marsepein en vulling, bokkenpoot is twee koekjes met vulling er tussen.
as a dutch girl i am always surprised what i find normal but foreigner so special.
sometimes a foreigner has to open your eyes to realize again how beautiful something is again
I've lived in Nijmegen for several years and somehow never thought of it any other way than just normal. I even thought for quite a while that it was an annoying city, because of all the hilly parts. Up and down and up and down :')
Thats my town! So fun to watch this!
Wow, you pronounced 'Nijmegen' pretty much perfectly, that's awesome!
The Mergpijp is chocolate and marzipan filled with cake, cream and strawberry jam.
And there are actualy hundreds of museums in The Netherlands.
Yes man and you would need a year to see it all 😂but I’ll bet you’ll have the best time 🤍🙏🏼
lekker......or in english....yummie
I always have to laugh at your reaction, so nice 😂
Greetings from the rijk van Nijmegen! Born in the city and living close by. Nice to see you liked it!
Very cool!
Yep, the Museumkaart still exists and is highly recommendable...
Also some museums just give you a massive discount, but as been said before always check the museums you want to visit before getting the museumkaart (museumcard).
Fortunately Nijmegen in the picture, there are many beautiful cities in the Netherlands not only Amsterdam and The Hague, this is my beautiful city Nijmegen I have been living in England for a few years and have not been in the Netherlands for 2 years because of the corona I miss it well. When a real Nijmegen resident drives across the Waalbrug, we always say we're at home, that's how it feels too. Nice comment Thank you.
Waalbridge = coming home
And view from the bridge on the city is just priceless, that's when you know how lucky you are.
Thanks for showing Nijmegen to the world. I live there for 17 years now and fell in love with it. Some remarks from my side:
0:27 the statue is Moenen, which is the devil. He is part of a local saga. Moenen seduced Mariken (her statue can be seen at 14:57), but in the end love won
2:26 there are brushes that slow your bike down when you go down, and there is a little conveyor belt to help you go up. Especially for the heavier electric bikes
4:42 Yes, a lot of the old Nijmegen was destroyed by friendly fire. More than 800 people were killed, including children of a primary school. There is a monument of a swing to commemerate that
5:05 this is the Kronenburg Park, where Frank Boeijen sang about. You reacted to that song.
7:11 I gonna see Anneke van Giersbergen performe live in this church on 13 May 2022!
9:09 The bridge in the background is called De Oversteek (The Crossing). It is build on the spot where American soldiers crossed the river in rubber boats during WWII. 48 soldiers died. There are 48 lightpoles at the bridge that go on one by one and every day of the year at least one veteran and civilians walk that sunset march to honour the American fallen soldiers
9:59 The most famous Nijmegen song goes like this: “Even if I have to crawl, go barefeet. I want to hear St. Steven bang just one more time”
10:09 this park used to be a parking place full of cars
12:50 this is museum De Bastei with old Roman and medieval remains
Every year Nijmegen has the world famous 4 Days Marches (with 7 days of crazy parties, including the Snollebollekes). If you are here the third week of July, you can party with us!
thx for your additional comments
When Prince passed away the organ player in the St Stevens kerk player his song as a Tribute, it was magical !
@@aniet1641 the organ or the carrillion?
@@throughthewindowpane the carrillion
@@throughthewindowpane they alsof did a Tribute for Avicii and van halen because van halen was born in Nijmegen. You can find the Tributes on you tube
at 15.26 you see my fav. coffeeshop Kruidentuin, where they also serve a really nice fresh mint tea from Marocco
thx for doing my city of birth, grts from a nijmeegse cheesehead in Germany, pls stay safe
Thanks you too Ronny! ❤️✌️
Excellent ‘g’ pronunciation. You’re absolutely getting there! 👍👏😉
yes, but... In Nijmegen we use the soft G. :-)
Lol Highly correcting people on how to speak Dutch 😂😂
The Mergpijp is very very delicious 😋
That was very funny indeed 🤣
And very sweet.
I don't think You van wat more than one tho, you're teeth Will fall out 😂
Whhaaaa so cool! I live in Nijmegen. It's such a beautiful city.
Finally my city where I’m living now 25 years , much love to him to show some people this great video ❤️
Near Nijmegen you have Kasteel Doornenburg, a castle from the middle age. And in Groesbeek there’s a WW2 museum.
Fun fact, my hometown Maastricht and Nijmegen are competing for years about which of the two is the oldest city in the Netherlands. You should check out a clip of Maastricht too. Practically the same age but so different in style. I've been to Nijmegen a couple of times and it makes me feel like I'm at home. Thumbs up for your vids man, love your channel. And Nijmegen; you're absolutely beautiful ♥️
You tell him HXC! Use that G! my ex-inlaws have lived there all their lives. I fell in love with that city ♥ Nijmegen is so beautiful.
I'm so happy you showed so much Dutch movies, it gives me more changes to se city's around the Netherlands where i don't go to.. (super bedankt 👍). 😊
I was born near Novio Magus 👍
Oh and actually the further south you go in the Netherlands, the softer the G becomes. In Nijmegen it is very soft already.
Used to go to Uni there for a couple of years.... hasn't changed that much since I've been there.
HCR, our country is SMALL, so any growth... anywhere, needs to be organized perfectly. That is WHY the entire Netherlands is so utterly organized. It's the best use of space. NL is tetris to perfection, more or less. Quaint... it's just ...VERY small and every little bit of space we get, we care for, so it looks nice.
This is fun! I live right in city centre of Nijmegen and love seeing videos like these. Thanks for taking the time to appreciate my hometown :)
10.52 That's a 'mergpijp' not a 'mergel' pijp. Mergel is a kind of limestone (marl?). Merg means 'marrow'. Every supermarket sells them. Or you buy a fresh one at the bakery. It's more expensive though but worth it.
Yeah i was like " WTF is she calling that?". I'm more a fan of stroopwafels tho.
Yeah, definitely get one at a proper banketbakker. Skip the ones from the supermarket, they're trash.
True, it's mergpijp. You'll never see me buying one because I don't like them.... nor do I like stroopwafels! I seem to be not a very Dutch Dutchie
Thanks for your great reaction, so funny to see spots in this vid that are so normal to me. I walk often through the center of Nijmegen shopping.
Your obsession with 'the frikadel' is so funny 😆.
By the way: it wasn't mergpijp later on in the video. That was 'bokkepoot'. Looks the same, but it is a sort of a cookie. Very tasty!
Looking forward to your reactions when you are able to visite The Netherlands!
I live near Nijmegen, in Arnhem. Nice to watch😉
Also a place to visit.
Welcome to the city of van Halen and the summerfest! Welcome to my Nijmegen.
NijmeGen! 🤣 your Dutch is getting better every day
That’s where the fairy’s live, it’s not a bird house …hahaha you make me crack 🤣
I was able to search my family tree back 900 years, many of it in Nijmegen (geneology) I LOVE your reaction !
where you stopped the video (at 15:20 in your own) are not the pastry that he was eating earlier, which was a mergpijp. what you see around 15:20 into your own video is a bokkepoot which is more of a biscuit/cookie.
HxC has to try all of them! 🍪
Museum cards can still be bought. You can use them in almost all museums, also the Open Air museum in Arnhem (go there if you're over here, it's beautiful)
The open air museum is great. It is basically a big park with all kinds of historic houses, a cloths washing business, a primary school of about 200 years ago, a mill, different historic factories, middle-aged toys to play with. And people dressed up in clothes of that area, show how life was in that time.
You can have a nice stroll in the park, have coffee with cake on a degrade and check out a part of Dutch history.
16:17 Don't think maintenance on those things becomes neglected! Rules applying to them are really strict and they are checked regularly
Yeah, if there seems to be something wrong in the daily check it has to be fixed before opening the ride
One of my two favorites, besides 's-Hertogenbosch. Both are old cities by the river with great history
14.50 That's cool. That's the Valkhof museum. We knew somewhere who worked there who actually restored paintings for the museum. He took us 'behind the scenes' of the museum. I loved it.
Don't forget, Nijmegen hosts the biggest organised walk in the world, the Nijmegen 4 Days.
OMG Thank you so much for reacting tho this i recemended it to you thank you so much you even pronounced it good good job! maybe one more video about the history of Nijmegen (The Roman’s) and btw Nijmegen has a festival called de vierdaagse ( 4days of walking) its so cool but still thank you so much man!❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m now exciting to go to nijmegen. I have been there but it was long ago.
at 9.09 you see the third Nijmegen bridge to the far left where the 82nd. Airborne crossed the river in small boats and bypassed the German defence, (they call it up to this day Little Omaha, refering to Omaha beach DdAy 6 june 1944), crossed the river in small boats in full sight of the German defenders, attacked the main bridge from the north, while the British Grenadier Guards attacked from the south, that was how Nijmegen was liberated..... i will send you a vid. on discord with the famous Waalcrossing from the famous movie A Bridge Too Far. ...
Weer wat geleerd. Dank Ronny
This bridge is called De Oversteek, which means the crossing. At sunset a veteran crosses the bridge starting at the Nijmeegse side of the bridge. As soon as the citylights in Nijmegen turn on, the veteran starts marching over the bridge. On the bridge there are 48 light poles, one for every American soldier who died during the Waalcrossing on 20 october 1944. These light poles turn on one by one. At the end of the bridge the veteran goes down the stairs to a memorial monument with the 48 names. At this monument the veteran salutes to honor those who gave their lives for our freedom. Everybody is free to join the veteran. The sunset march takes place every day, 365 days a year. They have been doing this since 19 october 2014, so today will be the 2577 time the sunset march will take place. My dad is one of the veterans who walks the sunset march regularly, and when he walks I walk with him. On Facebook you can find it under Sunset March (beautiful pictures and video’s)
I’ve been watching lots of your reactions and getting the impression that you like the Netherlands. You even got an orange t-shirt 😉 So if you ever planning on visiting our beautiful country, I’ll be more then happy to show you around in Nijmegen, eat some mergpijpjes, and maybe we can also go to a concert (Ladies of Soul would be great). Meanwhile I’ll keep enjoying your reactions.
you should come by sometime. this city is fantistic. been living here for a long time. especially in summer it's a lot of fun here!
That twinkie-looking sweet is NOT called mergelpijp, but mergpijp.
Our carnirides are save they need a yearly check-up by a organization called tuv so they are pretty safe
Yes! Lived there for avout 8 years. In the middle of nature, by an old demolished brick factory in a 100 years old horse stable😊, with the river as my backyard, looking at the skyline😊. Yet only 15 minutes by bike from city centre. The road there wasnt even paved, which is absurdly primitive for Dutch terms😂. Everybody always came to the beaches for recreation, I came there to go home😊. I still miss it. So much. Had to move when my house burned down....
you turned into Woody Harrelson in Zombieland for a moment there, with those Twinkies lmao!
"tWINKIES WITH RASPBERRIES INSIIIDE!!" Lol
"...everything looks like...I dunno. Hobbit village?"
Nice👍
Awesome this video about my home ‘town’. Haha “you gotta use “ghrhe” ..” … true, but, actually, his wasn’t that far of either. In the south of the Netherlands we speak with a soft “g” that sounds a lot different from the hard gurgly sound used in the rest of the country.
That dessert is my favorite. Thnx 4 reacting and sharing this video.
O yeah! Lived there for 14 years:-)
Since I study for my master in Arteducation the Museumkaart really comes in handy 'cause I have to visit a lot of museums and work with them! With just like 3 visits to different museums all over the country I already had my money out of it. Love that card haha!
You are getting good at the dutch g 🙂 Thats my province Gelderland. My hometown Apeldoorn is cool too 🙂
wauw your pronunciation of "Nijmegen" is almost perfect
Did you know that before these huge clocks are being used to inform citizens about the time...there were sort of sundials divided in 40 parts...
Each part was called a moment (yes...that moment you use almost daily)...and was similar to 90 seconds...or 1,5 minute.
The same river you just saw is the same river ho is next to my village of Ochten and his name is the river Waal. Lots of big commercial boats on it. Haha
And now, and this is huge, our great friends to the south who we love so much BELGIUM (we make jokes of them, but we love them)
THIS IS FASCINATING BELGIUM th-cam.com/video/fx2Z5ZD_Rbo/w-d-xo.html OK back to the Netherlands this is LIMBURG th-cam.com/video/LWc0K83mZrk/w-d-xo.html
There are a lot of bridges with bike "tracks/rails" in the whole of the Netherlands
I life only 20 minutes from Nijmegen in the little vilage called Ochten. Its in Gelderland 2 haha.. Nijmegen is a great city .. Lost of cool cafes restaurants and historic buildings . 😘👍😁
Hey there. My again. On 11:00 they talked about the mergpijp and it's a dessert, it's a snack and a cake. And it's delicious and sweet.
The cornie rides in Holland are very well maintained. They travel around in Holland from city to city in the summer. They build it up an check it every time. The company’s are licensed and checked often.
In Holland it is called : kermis
Nijmegen is one of the oldest university cities in the Netherlands. You will probably mainly see students sitting on the grass enjoying the beautiful weather.
Mergpijpje: cake with marzipan shell (no white chocolate) dipped at the ends in dark chocolate. It’s called “Mergpijpje” because it looks like a bone with marrow in it.
Perfect how you say ‘Nijmegen’
16:20 Hi. Actually in the south/south east of the Netherlands, which includes Nijmegen, they speak the 'g' as a soft 'g', while in other areas the hard 'g' is more common. You know, the kind you feel in your throat.
A Mergpijp! Sooo good😋 it's a tiny cake with layers of cream and raspberryjam. Covered with marzipan dipped in dark chocolat. (Delicious but very sweet.)
The name means marrowbone.
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oh yeah man... those things are deliciuos you MUST eat it when you are ever in The Netherlands ;)
we have like so many good snacks that we forget it's not internationally known so we don't mention them. Do you know about 'Gevulde koeken'? they are truly great.
Wanner je na school naar de appie gaat en de boterkoektaart is in de aanbieding 😍😍😍
Amira Willighagen is from Nijmegen! A lovely city. I went there from Ireland for several Amira concerts in that beautiful church there..
11:23 The Mergpijp is made of milk chocolate, Marzipan, whipped cream (sort of, I don't know what to call it otherwise), yelly/jam, and cake :)
Baker's cream
The carnival rides in Europe, especially Germany and Netherlands are tested multiple times in year. We have special government agencies to check those things on safety. Also the rides in amusement parks have those check's.
The "mergpijp" is not a dessert, it's a cookie! hahaha
This is my city and I love it, there's nothing quite coming home in this city!
at time stap 8:58 you see the nijmegen bridge, one of the bridges in operation marketgarden.
You pronounce the "g" very good :)
that cookies called MERGPIJPJE
Yeah. When you cross the bridge over the river Waal you’re home. 😊
I like Nijmegen. I've been there a few times. Even though it's about 65 miles from where I live, it's part of the transit district that we have here, so if you have a local bus pass, you can also go to a few places in the Netherlands that are close to the border. It takes forever to get there, but there was a time when I didn't have much to do, so I didn't care about that. I've always wanted to go back there by car, but with Covid rules changing every week I postponed that trip to a later date.
You are welcome anytime, Benno!
@@throughthewindowpane Thank you. Dankjewel. That is very nice.
Nice, the city where I live 😁
I grew up with my museum yearcard , my bank had a deal with the museumcard organisation so your bankcard doubled as a museumyearcard. Free acces to all musea.....was great.
Ongeveer 2000 jaar geleden was Nijmegen,bezet door de Romeinen. Er zijn nederzetting gevonden in en rond om Nijmegen. Dit heb ik allemaal geleerd in 1992. Toen ik 2.5 weken in het ziekenhuis lag in Groesbeek, een klein plaatsje naast Nijmegen.
Groetjes uit Spakenburg Nederland.
P.s. Spakenburg is a old fhising town in the provincie of Utrecht. Whit a market every Saterday Whit more than a 100 stands. And only a 7 minuten boatride from the provincie of Flevoland.
Bukkes - Ming Dârrep Videoclip / Ben de Graaf
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Bukkes - Héé Keeltsie / mvdjagt
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Videoclip Bukkes - Tetteren , Hi res / Ben de Graaf
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The oldest Village/town in The Netherlands is Beek (Zuid Limburg) and it's over 7000 years old.
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yea just come here man, we have many delicious treats hahaha
15:25.. oh and that to whahaha smoke em if you got em dude.!
Museumcards are still a thing here. And Mergpijpjes are amazing my son is an Mergpijpje-Addict . But make sure when you are in the Netherlands . To get your hands on Speculaas 🤤 or the cream Speculoos to eat on bread . That is the best !
If you wanna learn something about the Netherlands you should visit the open air museum in Arnhem!
Haha, Jovie cameo at the end.
2.30 when I went to highschool I had to do that twice a day. You had the choice, cycle all the way over the bridge or take the stairs and push your bike up through those tracks. Just a matter of holding your bike up, the track will guide it. You have to push it though.
This is memorielane for me. lived and studied there for a copple of years and some of my ancestors lived in that area about 1245
Born in Nijmegen. Know the history. But this was such a sweet walking around with a real friendly guy that loved the city his girlfriend showed him around .
Well done.
Because this amazing university city is so left leaning it is known in Dutch politics as 'Havana aan de Waal' (Havana on the river Waal)
Only topped by Wageningen lol
LOL like your enthousiasm about Nijmegen...one of the oldest city on the east side of the country. Nijmegen has a university, is a nice place to be on the river de Waal, people are friendly, modest not as blunt and upfront as in Amsterdam or Rotterdam. The atmosfere of the city is openly progressive in many ways. Lot of different little shops wich emphasizes the variety of people living there.
@14:30 you can get a month museumcard for tourists as well, dont need a dutch residence for it, its a pretty permanent thing theres also similar things for other attractions where you pay a discounted lumpsum and then just get to pick and choose where to go, some citys like rotterdam have local things as well, if you do a bit of searching (im sure someone can help if you cant find) its worth the effort if you plan on doing multiple things, theres a whole budget to promote cultural activities regardless of peoples income and a good cooperation between the different musea and other attractions around ... and theres a lot of them, i would think you can probably get your moneys worth compared to full tickets in a day or 2
maybe small detail but...ok so there is this myth amongst non-dutch that the only way to talk proper dutch is to use the hard G...this is not the case for many dutch accents. Yes, some dutch people use the very throated G, the most dominant accent does this...but not all! Lots of Dutch people pronounce the G as a velar frigative (think pronunciation of the H in some british English variaties).
Big fan of Nijmegen personally
My city ❤ !!!! Most beautiful city
Im a carny and I'll clear this up for ya: Carnaval rides have to get checked every two years in the Netherlands. If even the smallest safety issue is found, even if its not dangerous, youre not allowed to open with it.
I was also born in Nijmegen. In 1999 i mved to the hague.
What a coincidence I was born in the Hague... love Nijmegen, the whole area and especially the vierdaagse. You ever think about returning?
@@MrEscen no. I like it here. The beach the different culture here. I live in a hofje in the Schilderswijk.
@@patriciatheunissen1262oh great.. we have some nice hofjes in the Hague. I guess it's nice to have both. Nijmegen area has some more nature, farming, nice forest and open fields. But couldn't do without the beach either. Thanks I was wondering.
from 1988 to 1992 Nina Simone lived in The Nederland, first in Nijmegen after that in Amsterdam
They didn't mention the Nijmeegse vierdaagse, 45.000 people from 70 countries walking 40 or 50 km on one day 4 days in a row
I don't know where you got the 45.000 from. During the 7 day festival it avareges around 1.5 million visitors :D
@@1993hermans Wikipedia mentioned 45.000 people walking a day.
@@1993hermans 45.000 people do the walking.
1.5 million visitor to watch the walkers and to attend the summer festivities. For one week the center of the town is packed with festivities. It starts around noon with all kinds of childrens stuff, street theater, music etc, and it goes on to about midnight. There is all kinds of music everywhere. Friday evening is the visies. It is basically the finale of the 4 days walking march. Many walkers will visite then the center. You can recognize them by the careful way they walk (blisters) and by the medal they are wearing. Many, many nationalities. Nijmegen is in that week a very international city.
My town! You can walk to Germany from here, lol. On a bike it's 20 minutes.
They find old stuff everywhere they dig here and by European treaty they are obligated to do archeological research. They even found a Roman mummy in a sarcophagus in a main street in the old town.
The birdhouses are close to where I live (I live outside of the old town but just). Old town is almost car free, so pretty quiet. Actually this area we cal the Benedenstad as the old center with the church is on a hill. I've seen some concerts in the church, including John Cale, it's used for other things than services.
16.08 I wouldn't do that either, but not because the maintenance isn't good. Rules in The Netherlands are EXTREMELY strict so the maintenance will be ok, but no way I'd go in a thing like that
I think the ones you saw in the clip from the market weren't mergpijpjes but bokkenpootjes - "buck's legs/paws" - which is almond meringue dipped in chocolate