Netherlands and Belgium Family Bicycle Tour - Vlissingen to Bruges - Part 4
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- In the summer of 2017, our family returned to Europe to do another awesome bike tour. We started in Amsterdam and bicycled 800 km in a circle to Brussels and back to Amsterdam. This part of the bike tour takes us from Vlissingen crosing the Belgian border to Bruges.
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This bike touring video was shot using Gopro Hero and Session cameras.
I think I'll go for a ride on my bicycle after watching your inspirational video.. you're such a cool family
Thanks so much that is the effect we were hoping to have! More biking is better for everyone!💜 🚲🚲💜
The bike path along the river is called a "jaagpad" and was used by horses to pull the ships in the old days. And the castle in Sluis is actually a belfort, the only one in modern day Netherlands.
Thanks so much for this extra information!! Great to know the origin of these amazing paths.
Didn't know that (jaagpad), i'd life for 7 years in Brecht at the canal (bridge 9) Next to "Trapke op" ...
Another inspiring video. More please, please, please.
+Jimmy McDowell Thanks so much!
Great video! Thank You. Your videos seem to be getting better with every new one released.
Thanks that is very encouraging! Glad you liked it.
With winds mostly from the southwest it's better to circle the other way round and do the path along the coast from Vlissingen to Rotterdam. Like your vlog!
Good advice! Thanks for your comments.
We did not prioritise the bikes with that ferry. It used to take cars as well. But the tunnel made that ferry obsolete to cars.
+Peter Koning Thanks for sharing!
These Fery s were HUGE and I took these ferry s a lot to Zeebrugge with the truck, to unload privisions on board of ships in Zeebrugge., nowa day s the ferry s are tiny and small only for bikers and walkers,.
" Bruges means bridges" hahahahaa ! Not even close. But agreed with the fact that Belgian beer is the best in the world ;)
Yes , this new tunnel is not that old, and before that there were only ferry s to cross the water,, also were you guy s went , I went how many times with the truck from Rotterdam to Zeebrugge in Belgium with this huge ferry,. now it s a small one only for walkers and bikers,..,. also you can go via Antwerp, but that is a pain in the butt, specially during rushhours, you will be stuck in the trafficjams., and after the ferry you were still in Holland s provence Zeeuws Vlaanderen,., , near Sluis is the border and then soon comes Zeebrugge,. Port.
NICE VIDEO
I'm not a Belgium fan but I have to admit Brugge looks very nice
Hi, being half-Belgium/half-Dutch and lived in both countries you realize the complete opposite between both countries.
Still , visiting the historic centre of Belgian cities you kind of realize that they were from the time The Netherlands weren't divided yet in the republic of the Netherlands (first one in Europe) and the spanish Netherlands ,
that could not join the republic.
Architecture of the 15th-16th century and before that was in fact "Netherlandish"
After the separation in the end of the 16th century both countries went their own way (apart from a short period of
a rejoined "kingdom of the Netherlands " including Belgium) both countries grew very much apart.
From that early time on the common architecture began to differ as culture
differs like a more "anglo-saxon Netherlands (or Holland) and a catholic
"latin" later called Belgium.
Only the language stayed a common language, though the Flemmish have a strong southern French/Spanish like accent.
For about infrastructure I tend to feel more Dutch.
For about the kitchen I tend to feel more Belgian.
Really interesting. Thanks for the historical/cultural background!
0:38 to 2:16 is part of my daily jogging route :)
Cool!!
Weird I have seen your videos and did't give a thumps up.
Did you try mussels with fries in Vlissingen? (it is really good in that province)
I wish we did, we love mussels too! Only there for one day so we will have to return to try this!
we have always wind in Zeeland maybe 2 -3 days in a year no wind. so thats no problem for us
god bless your sheperds
They use the sheep to "mow" grass (the sheep only eat certain plants) without damaging other vegetation (industrial mowers mow everything and leave big tire marks) so using sheep is very eco friendly
Hi
extremely thanku to get me going free
Lol, why should you go to Belgium by bike? There infrastructure is soooo 1960...
Ha! You should see where we live!
I lived for 7 years in Brecht and St. Job in't goor... ;)
Especially the roads. I'm 57 now and I can still FEEL it when I enter Belgium. I've never seen more huge holes in highways than in Belgium. We even had a broken axle the last time we drove there.
Yep, our roads are pretty awful compared to The Netherlands. Luckily things have been generally improving, though I don't think our urban planning can ever get as good as The Netherlands.
@@Maxime_K-G Even the Belgian trains are anti-bike. There are no lifts in the stations and for some peculiar reason the trains are about a metre above the platform - getting my bike on trains with touring gear was a nightmare. In the Netherlands you just roll your bike on to the train and EVERY station has a lift. Also, I've never felt more unsafe cycling on public highways because the road system is so confusing - cars just suddenly come out of side roads without warning because they have priority. MADNESS!!
In Dutch it's Brugge, not Bruges. Say Bruhggggggggguh
Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for the help with pronunciation.