What did Rick miss? About 10 other provinces. The Delta Works in Zeeland, Maastricht and its lime stone quarry caves in Limburg, all of Friesland with its historic towns, lakes, the 32 kilometer 'Afsluitdijk' (1932) and Eise Eisinga's home made Planetarium (the oldest still working Planetarium in the world, built by amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga, his brother and his dad in the ceiling of his living room in 1778), the city of Utrecht, all of the historic cities of the medieval Hanseatic League (a 12th to 15th century trading league of over 200 European cities running trade from way north in modern day Estonia all the way down the coast of the Baltic Sea to what is now the north/middle of Germany, Poland and the whole of the Netherlands), the city of Groningen, multiple star-fortress cities from 1600 onwards. So much more. Basically, he covered about 1/6th of the Netherlands.
You're absolutely right. The solution was proposed by our gouvernement a couple of years ago ; No more 'Holland' for our export products....but 'The Netherlands '. Now it's up to you to promote your provinces. I absolutely agree with you : bring tourism to the east of the Netherlands ! 😊
@@richardhltrp1791 You're right offcourse. But the provinces in the east aren't known enough. Holland and Zeeland 'governed ' the world seas' in the 17th century. The eastern provinces didn't really got their part although they produced much of it. We 'Holland' people were not the kindest people. 😢 But now they have to work to promote their towns and country-side. And I do agree.....it's magnificent ! So spread the word : people from America : Visit Gelderland ; Overijssel and all the rest of the Netherlands ! Much cheaper than Amsterdam and often more fun ! ❤
During the German occupation in World War II, windmills in the Netherlands were used to send signals by positioning their sails in specific ways. This form of communication was utilized by the resistance to convey messages discreetly. The practice was an adaptation of traditional methods used for non-verbal signaling.
Well it's indeed beyond Amsterdam, but still only focusses on the Holland bit of the country as most other RUclips vids about the NL's, which is a shame seeing the rest of the country has a lot to offer as well and doesn't get the credit it deserves imo. PS: The NL's are not nordic, we're at the same latitude as southern England, Germany and Ontario, but contrary to the latter we have a temperate maritime climate and thus no severe winters or hot summers. Culturewise however we do have a lot in common with countries like Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Smoked eel is one of the absolute best eats you can get. It doesn't taste like fish, it's nice and smokey, fatty, and absolutely delicious. It's kind of like a good smoked brisket...
He does all across Europe. So glad you've decided to pick his series. He has also done a fair bit of areas of the UK. The production values are really good. Please, please continue with rick Steves. U will get to see and learn so much.
Funny, it’s supposed to be about the Netherlands but all the footage is just about the 2 provinces North and South Holland… there’s far more to see in the entire country
Herring is not raw. It's 'gekaakt'. Ripend in brine and the enzymes of its own pancreas, which is left in the freshly caught fish and only removed upon sale (if you manage to find a real traditional 'haringkar'.
Awesome to see my city in this video. He did miss quite a few things, but would have made the video 3 hours long. The oldest museum in the Netherlands for example, called Teylers Museum. Founded around the time of the American Revolution. It was visited by Emperor Napoleon & Albert Einstein, just to name of few. The museum is located on the banks of the Spaarne river, that flows through my hometown of Haarlem. And yes, it’s the original Haarlem, spelled with two A’s. Love your channel guys!
You can trust the fish everywhere in the Netherlands. Food is heavily regulated, all food. I wouldnt trust someone selling it on the street if they were like, on a cloth and not refrigirated but you dont see that here, thats against health regulations. The markets are 100% trustworthy.
Aalsmeer flower auction is the biggist commercial building in the world. 80% of all cut flowers in the world comes from the Netherlands. Not to mention plants, fruits and vegetables
We swim in our ocean. On new year’s morning we have the tradition to have a dip in the ocean in Scheveningen (near The Hague). During summer we love to swim, otherwise we love to walk on our beaches and have the winds help clear our heads. 😊
33:53 Amsterdam's latitude is roughly 52°N so more northern than Vancouver and Calgary. However, in part due to the warm gulf stream of the Atlantic Ocean, its climate is much warmer. In summer (certainly in the last 2 decades), temperatures can reach in the high 20s° Celsius and occasionally even low 30° C. So yes, in summer the wide sandy beaches are packed and people swim. The temperature of the coastal waters of the North Sea in summer can reach 22° C, although 16 to 18 (celcius) is more likely.
"Rick Steve's Europe as a european is definitely some of my favourite travel content, he does an amazing job showing and getting involved with local culture as well as teaching. Hes been doing this show for well over 20 years now so some of them might be back in the early 2000s like the nothern ireland one, which is really nostalgic to see how things were during my childhood.
Next video you should watch is how the Dutch made these dikes in the olden days from generation to generation very interesting. There is one famous video about it. Unfortunately I forgot the name. One is called " De Storm". Greeting from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
41:03 no, it became fresh water from an arm of the Rhine river flowing north named the Ijssel. Fresh water pushed salt water out, so the ginormous lake is also a freshwater reservoir for drinkingwater.
Have the viewers of the videos noticed that when the visitor asks something in English, they get an immediate answer in their own language? Try this in another country. Greetings from the Netherlands.
I promise you, and I am.not a real fish person a vegetarian even these days, but smoked eel is so delicious especially on a bun. Try it if you ever visit the Netherlands!
LOL, your comments about eating fish far from the sea. ever heard of deep freeze ;-) The herring intestines are removed just after catch at sea (near Denmark and Norway btw), the fish is salted and instantly deep frozen on board. All fish (not only herring) mend to be eaten uncooked has, according to law, been deep frozen for a certain period of time to prevent a certain parasite to damage the human body. As you know.. deep frozen food can be transported over very long distances. So it's safe to eat salted herring where ever you are. The fish monger defrosts the herring and lets it cure so long the herring has optimal texture and taste and to sell it cleaned from skin and bones. That's why there is difference between fish mongers.. the way they cure the herring and how they clean it.
The windmail was a multifunctional tool, they could easily attach a saw and that was one of the reason we ruled the seas when we could mass process logs to build ships in a time everyone else used a hand saw to turn logs into planks
@@jankokoens1838 it's a sad situation. The EU should put more pressure on members to follow EU laws concerning environmental issues and wildlife protection.
Your reaction was great. It's nice to see positive reactions to my country. The original video shows Holland as a pittoresk village. That's funny. Based on the footage throughout the video, you would never guess it is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
And if you find this amasing, try the Eise Eisinga planetarium in Franeker in the Friesland provence. Mr Eisinga build a moving solarsystem in his ceiling. It's all made of wood too. His whole house is a planetarium he started building the solarsystem in 1774 en was done with it in 1781. In that time there were only 6 planets. It still runs and its still acurate. (for those 6 known planets). If you want to marvel at someting go there.
22:07 Not really the blue collar people, the gentlemen on these paintings are more comparable to modern day Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs. Some of them became so rich, they could very well be considered the Bill Gates’s, Zuckerbergs and Musks of their time.
The Ijsselmeer is pure fresh water now. All the salt has been flushed out by the rivers, so we have the biggest freshwater lake in Europe now. Good thing to have actually.
The Dutch made ships ten times faster than any country in the 15th till 17th century because we used windmills to saw the wood... Temperatures in the Netherlands are between winter 28 F and 86 F in summer.
Love this reaction, but one thing, which you should’ve learned by now is… never just assume anything if you haven’t been there. You can swim in the North Sea, but only in the summer. Then the water get’s warmed enough to swim and enjoy it. In the winter there are still those Dutch “pinguins” swimming in incecold water. Not for me either 😅 The Netherlands is as high on the map as northern mainland USA, so don’t they swim there? Is that what you’re saying? Oh and the North Sea isn’t that healthy to swim because it’s the busiest sea route in whole Europe. The water is poluted by all the ship and boat traffic. It’s a wonder that there are still animals living in the sea here haha 😂 The most touristic destinations are In North and South Holland provinces. But the rest of the Netherlands is equally interesting. There are many fortified cities with lots of history to explore, many towns with great city centers just to enjoy and even the smaller cities and places have interesting and surprising things to explore 😅 It’s not so that all places outside of Amsterdam are in a swamp and that there’s nothing to do there. You would be surprised if you visit the Netherlands or any other country in Europe. After visiting the Netherlands go to Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark and so on. You’re in for a surprise for sure. There are many Americans who think that the USA invented everything. You will see that that’s absolutely not the case. To give a few examples… I’m sure you’re using wifi and bluetooth making this reaction video. Those are some recent Dutch inventions. And all European countries have their own inventions made in the past thousand years. Even in the ages when there was no electricity, they made it all work and we’re still using many of those techniques in modern time. So keep exploring the world. There’s so much to learn, for all of us 👍
Most of the water pumping nowadays is done by diesel engines. Windmills nowadays are used to grind grains in the traditional way, creating baking products like bread and cake. You can buy these products in the super market. We do swim in the sea, but the water is very cold. Eel tastes fishy but the meat has a firmer texture than fish. It's quite delicious once you get over the 'eel' part. While he did venture out of Amsterdam, it looks like he only hit tourist attractions. The towns he visits are known for their tourism. Nothing wrong with it, but this is not the Netherlands that most of us live in.
There are also lots of old windmills inland from the coastal area. These were predominantly sawmills and grain mills. It's just a huge wind powered engine, hook something up to the output shaft and your imagination is the limiting factor.
37:19 if you like such museums, also bookmark the historic town of Orvelte (Or-vell-tuh), the museum area 'Zaanse Schans' (a place where several historic buildings mainly from across the province of North Holland were moved to. It's a bit of a (Chinese) tourist trap through) and the Open Air Museum in Arhem (similar to Zaanse Schans in that it is a collection of historic buildings which were moved to the museum area, but much larger, much more varied and much less tourist trappy).
Would love more Rick Steve's Europe. As a Dane, I think he captured the experience of Denmark the best out of every youtube video on the site. The video title: Denmark beyond Copenhagen. Also, he just has great vibes 😍
Really enjoyed your reaction to this video ( and to the video itself) Kind greetings from a Dutchie; by the way, you'd LOVE smoked eel...it's really really good!
Do you really want those Chinese, American, and other tourists taking over your villages? Advice: do NOT visit North Brabant, nothing to see, boring as hell.
At 18:36 min.: Misconception about herring: the notion that herring is eaten 'raw' is misleading. After the fish is caught and - crucially - cleaned aboard (Dutch invention) a trawler, the herring is put in salt straight away. The salt functions as a strong food preservative, and an enzyme ripening process is started. The herring will stay fresh for a very long time thereafter!
Om heel technisch te zijn, 'rauw' omvat toch ook producten die een mate van fermentatie (zijn) ondergaan. Er zijn geen externe processen toegepast om het product, de samenstelling of de smaak aan te passen. Kortweg: rauw omvat ook producten die gefermenteerd zijn.
Today most of the polders depend on electric powered "pumps" (gemalen) to keep the water out of the polders. But the windmolens are still there, they just don't have to operateur daily anymore. Most are on Saturday though....
The windmills still work the oldfasioned way. But most of the time electrical pumps in pumpingstations are used to keep us dry. This one probably has more a sightseeing function than the actual pumping function. And if it does, as said the pumping stations assist.
He he Gerookte Paling is super healthy and tastes delicious. There is also a competition Nederlands 🇳🇱 Palingroken and My husband has won 1st prize several times.🏆 Also Haring with uitjes is yummy 😋 In this video there are places I have been, Haarlem, Enkhuizen been to the Windmill. I myself come from a fishing village of VOLENDAM on the Zuiderzee, I can see Marken from the dijk of Volendam. You can see my village Volendam from The ship on the water WoW 🤩 From Amsterdam it is it approximately 20 kilometers 🥰 Thanks guys, it was great to see this again. 🇳🇱🌷🙋🏼♀️
Summer temperatures varies from 68 to 77 Fahrenheit, average. Never rely on sunny weather, always expecting rain. I'm a born and raised Dutchy. And, at 60 years old, I'm still not adjusted to the weather. For me, to cold and to less sun
Geat reaction mad lads. Learned a few more things (and I'm even Dutch :) We ain't too bad :) Love our ancestors. (and our painters. no photos so they thought; hey why not let's pre-emptive this coming madness) Yes we can !
Delftware forms part of the worldwide family of blue and white pottery, using variations of the plant-based decoration first developed in 14th-century Chinese porcelain, and in great demand in Europe.
38:00 Smoked eal is the most delicious thing on earth !!! Very (VERY) expensive today ! The eals are born in Holland and cross the Ocean to the Saragosse Sea. Once they're grown up; they come back to Holland to lay there eggs. ( Some 15 years later !!!) But because of our waterworks...well, they can't really enter the Netherlands. So they became rare. As à child ; 45 years ago, I remember fishing them in my hometown. Now they are a bit taboo in Holland. 😢
There are churches in the Netherlands that are older than the USA as you know it. The oldest ones have their origines in the 10 th century. The colonisation of America started in 1492 with Columbus. Most of the stones ones are build in the 1200-1300 AC. So yeah.... But you are right. Often the churches were the only stone bluildings in the city often also build on a high point, or created high point like a terp (manmade hill, Vikings used them in the olden days as protection to flooding) When a storm would hit, all the people would gather in the church, because that would be the safest place to be. So remember, a whole town would fit in a church. Now adays that would be insane.
The IJsselmeer (IJssel lake) is now fully fresh water because of a dam and a dike in the north and a fresh water river ( the IJssel) that floats into the lake.
One hidden gem for foreigners is Den Bosh with the river the Binnendieze running below the city. You can take a boat tour that basically goes below the city. Plus the city itself is really nice, with a large part of the defending walls still there.
Once on a "afdelingsuitje" me and my colleagues from work went on boat trip through Den Bosch. I loved all the new things I learned even though I visit the city often enough.
Im from South Holland and take all this for granted as if its not big of a deal.... seeing this and especially your reaction makes me appreciate the ground i life on more as of now .....them old Dutch Bastards were pretty inventive ...well ....not me 😂😂😂
Felt so dorry for the camera msn,he cut another second piece of cheese and looked and gestured for the camera man Rick took it straight awsy and ate it!
Thank's guys for your comments. If you come to visit the Netherlands : don't forget the cities of Alkmaar en Schagen. ( In the North. Only half an hour by train from Amsterdam) Den Helder for it's large beaches and many bars and restaurants. I ride trough West Friesland. In South Holland Delft and Leiden and Gouda ! Utrecht is beautiful and all the small towns with their castles... Brabant is wonderful. Or try Groningen in the north-east ( brings tears to my eyes every time I think about this county !) Zutphen ; Arnhem ; Apeldoorn should be on your list. Nijmegen also. And Drenthe...to do by bike. Please enjoy my country. ❤❤❤❤
You guys do realize that these windmills fulfill a historical function. It's hundreds of years old obsolete technology. Today our water management is computer controlled and doesn't need much attention or maintenance to keep working 24/7.
And that same water management is now one of the products that the Netherlands sells all over the world. If you want to keep your feet dry, you call the Dutch.
Don't drink the water, but definitely eat the eel! Also, Rick missed a lot. Like f.i: Giethoorn (you get around in boats only); Groningen (do the boat tour); the entire Afsluitdijk; Arnhem. Much more. :)
2:45 atcually he does stick to Amsterdam... everything shown is in the West, not more then an hourr away from Amsterdam.. It be an amazingly good video if he went North, cross the Enclosuredike ( Afsluitdijk in Dutch) and made a roundtrip through all the provinces... Netherlands is mor ethen the Hollands and it is ashame it isn't shown, but rather good video production.
We swim, only in the last part of summer - at least I do. 🤣 And by the way smoked eel is very good, not “fishy”. It’s a shame they almost got extinct. Not because of fishing but because of the young eel cannot enter the ‘inside’ waters because everting is locked by dykes locks and other measures to keep the sea outside.
The smoked eel is delicious and a New Years tradition in our family. Unfortunately it’s also an endangerd species. So eating it is accompanied with a bit of a guilty feeling. It’s like eating a panda…..
Skip Amsterdam, go to Haarlem which feels like Amsterdam but without the tourists and go to Utrecht when you like the good life and canals. Then also go to Maastricht for a greater European experience, French influence, a big river flowing through it and enjoy the catholic burgundian lifestyle. Wine, beer and incredible food. Outside of Maastricht you can cross over into Germany, Belgium and back into the Netherlands in three steps. And if you want to see original old buildings brought in from all over the Netherlands go to the Dutch open air museum in Arnhem. People there demonstrate and explain the workings of a windmill f.e.
The Dutch are build different ! 😂🤣 you know that the best products always go far ! so the good fish is not near the sea !! just like our best flowers always go out side of the Netherlands ! ( good export products pay's better ) the sea water in the Netherlands is very good ( not to cold and not to warm for nice refreshment in summer !
Actually the Dutch herring fishery always remained more profitable than the whole VOC (Dutch East India Company) with it's Asian trade, including but certainly not exclusively spices. The Delft Bleu is originally a cheap imitation off of Chinese porcelain the middle class could afford, the Chinese just like the Indians, Persians and Japanese were far too sophisticated to take an interest in European goods. So it was mostly traded for either silver or spices from elsewhere in Asia. The VOC did most of it's trade within Asia instead of sailing back for over a year every time. The Dutch first almost monopolized the herring trade, an important nutriant to the whole of Northern Europe, by inventing gibbing for conservation and on ship processing in the 14th century. In the late 16th century they invented the wind saw mill, allowing them to build ships 30 times faster than anybody else. Together with early central banking and it's low interests they outcompeted everybode and by 1650 over half of the European merchant fleet was from the Dutch Republic. That drove the British out to other continents, where they had to compete with the Dutch too, but they primarily went to Asia first to fight the ongoing war for independence with Spain and Portugal. The Dutch East India company opened the world too the Dutch, but economically it was almost insignificant compared to the dominance of the far bigger and far more frequent and safe European trade. But the small port city of Hoorn was relatively big in the VOC. The Dutch Republic's government was protestant but it had introduced religious tolerance, both protestants and catholics wanted religious tolerance and stood up to the Spanish king and declared him to have left the throne for being a tyrant trampling on their inalienable rights, the freedom of conscience of how to serve god in particular. That did end big churches as symbols of worldly, political power of the catholic church though. Catholics could get rich but had to have mass in their own homes and barns. I believe only the Japanese treat the eel as the delicacy it is too, and they have a better reputaton on fine dining than the Dutch, to put it mildly. It's really fatty, tender and smokey and not very fishy.
02:20 this 'classic windmill ' is certainly NOT in Holland. Maybe in the south of the Netherlands ? 24:00 The organ of Saint Bavo in Haarlem is since 1734 the unbeaten 'biggest' organ in the world ! ( After this, in the 20th century 'larger' organs were build. But not with so many registers ! Mozart played on this organ and it is 73 feet high.
Amsterdam is just one big tourist trap. As a Dutchie, I'm avoiding going to Amsterdam as much as I can. To me, the only things worth while are the museums and other historical sites. But the Netherlands has so much more to offer and other places aren't so crowded as Amsterdam. What prides me as a Dutchie is the impact we had, and still have on the world in a country with 17mln people. The inventions that came from here and the amount of world renowned athletes and (musical) artists.
Hahaha! "Would you consider the Netherlands 'northern' Europe?" .... "Yeah, yeah its in the northern part of Europe". You Guys really made me laugh here. Would you consider Germany to be in the northern part of Europe? I guess you wouldn't. Well...... the Netherlands are just one of our western neighbours! More south than Denmark actually. And yes, you can swim in the Northsea, at least during summertime and if you don't expect water temperatures like in Florida :)
Hey! There is one big mistake in that Vider. He constandly uses Holland. But its the Netherlands. Holland is just a smal part. Amsterdam Area is North Holland and Rotterdam Area is South Holland !
To be fair, he only visited places in the Holland provinces. He mentioned the Netherlands quite a lot too. Edit: Also, the video was published in 2014, well before our government officially denounced the ‘nickname’ in 2020.
Please please please.... explain that North Holland and South Holland are just 2 of the 12 Dutch provinces. Any foreigner might confuse them with the northern part and with the southern part of the entire country of the Netherlands. Ik heb dit al minstens twee keer moeten uitleggen aan buitenlandse toeristen. Ik denk dat ze het nog steeds niet begrijpen.
I like how simplistic you compare the old with the new. Fun fact: New York was New Amsterdam. There still are references like Haarlem near Amsterdam and Harlem near New York or Breukelen and Broocklin. Coney Island is in fact Konijnen Eiland (Bunny Island). Wallstreet is walstraat in history a wal was a wooden wall defence mechanism.
It is nice to know that our two countries share a history. We laid the foundation for New York and other places, which the following generations have continued. The Netherlands may be small in size, but we leave a big footprint all over the world. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Haha only the smal western part of the Netherlands: 'Holland' - but the cities of Nijmegen and Maastricht are at least as old (hint: roman era) and even cities like Den Bosch, Breda, Sittard and Eindhoven (southern part of the Netherlands) have "city"-rigths longer than Amsterdam.
1:14 Empties his can and flatten it. InEurope that can is worth 0,15 . Well, when we buy cans we also buy 0,15 for that extra, for us that's a refund in the grocery store.
for sure you got to go to maastricht in limburg do not stay in amsterdam.... actually take 2 weeks and visit every province.. with the train and buss you can go through the whole of the netherlands. but do not speak of walters world as that dude has everything wrong.. I so very very dislike that man !
What did Rick miss? About 10 other provinces. The Delta Works in Zeeland, Maastricht and its lime stone quarry caves in Limburg, all of Friesland with its historic towns, lakes, the 32 kilometer 'Afsluitdijk' (1932) and Eise Eisinga's home made Planetarium (the oldest still working Planetarium in the world, built by amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga, his brother and his dad in the ceiling of his living room in 1778), the city of Utrecht, all of the historic cities of the medieval Hanseatic League (a 12th to 15th century trading league of over 200 European cities running trade from way north in modern day Estonia all the way down the coast of the Baltic Sea to what is now the north/middle of Germany, Poland and the whole of the Netherlands), the city of Groningen, multiple star-fortress cities from 1600 onwards. So much more. Basically, he covered about 1/6th of the Netherlands.
are you ready to make a 70 hour video and make people watch it ??
You're absolutely right.
The solution was proposed by our gouvernement a couple of years ago ; No more 'Holland' for our export products....but 'The Netherlands '.
Now it's up to you to promote your provinces.
I absolutely agree with you : bring tourism to the east of the Netherlands ! 😊
@@richardhltrp1791
You're right offcourse.
But the provinces in the east aren't known enough.
Holland and Zeeland 'governed ' the world seas' in the 17th century.
The eastern provinces didn't really got their part although they produced much of it.
We 'Holland' people were not the kindest people. 😢
But now they have to work to promote their towns and country-side. And I do agree.....it's magnificent !
So spread the word : people from America : Visit Gelderland ; Overijssel and all the rest of the Netherlands !
Much cheaper than Amsterdam and often more fun ! ❤
During the German occupation in World War II, windmills in the Netherlands were used to send signals by positioning their sails in specific ways. This form of communication was utilized by the resistance to convey messages discreetly. The practice was an adaptation of traditional methods used for non-verbal signaling.
Well it's indeed beyond Amsterdam, but still only focusses on the Holland bit of the country as most other RUclips vids about the NL's, which is a shame seeing the rest of the country has a lot to offer as well and doesn't get the credit it deserves imo.
PS: The NL's are not nordic, we're at the same latitude as southern England, Germany and Ontario, but contrary to the latter we have a temperate maritime climate and thus no severe winters or hot summers. Culturewise however we do have a lot in common with countries like Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Yea culture wise we are definitely more Nordic then we are Germanic 🎉
@@Kelektroid Scandinavia and Denmark are Germanic, just like us, you probably meant German.
@@Kelektroid Nordic is also Germanic....
@@Kelektroid Nordic is just a variety of Germanic. Dutch is West Germanic, specifically North Sea Germanic. Definitely not Nordic.
Yes we swim in the North Sea in summertime. And there is a tradition to dive into the sea on new years day (nieuwjaarsduik) but then it is cold
Smoked eel is one of the absolute best eats you can get. It doesn't taste like fish, it's nice and smokey, fatty, and absolutely delicious. It's kind of like a good smoked brisket...
He does all across Europe. So glad you've decided to pick his series. He has also done a fair bit of areas of the UK. The production values are really good. Please, please continue with rick Steves. U will get to see and learn so much.
Funny, it’s supposed to be about the Netherlands but all the footage is just about the 2 provinces North and South Holland… there’s far more to see in the entire country
Herring is not raw. It's 'gekaakt'. Ripend in brine and the enzymes of its own pancreas, which is left in the freshly caught fish and only removed upon sale (if you manage to find a real traditional 'haringkar'.
Awesome to see my city in this video. He did miss quite a few things, but would have made the video 3 hours long. The oldest museum in the Netherlands for example, called Teylers Museum. Founded around the time of the American Revolution. It was visited by Emperor Napoleon & Albert Einstein, just to name of few. The museum is located on the banks of the Spaarne river, that flows through my hometown of Haarlem. And yes, it’s the original Haarlem, spelled with two A’s. Love your channel guys!
Fun facts, Dutch inventions: telescope, microscope, stocks and the stock market, submarine, firehose, windmill, compact cassette, compact disc (cd), DVD, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc
This guy was part of my coping mechanism during the lockdowns. He just loves travelling and showing us all he's discovered.
You can trust the fish everywhere in the Netherlands. Food is heavily regulated, all food. I wouldnt trust someone selling it on the street if they were like, on a cloth and not refrigirated but you dont see that here, thats against health regulations. The markets are 100% trustworthy.
Aalsmeer flower auction is the biggist commercial building in the world. 80% of all cut flowers in the world comes from the Netherlands. Not to mention plants, fruits and vegetables
We swim in our ocean. On new year’s morning we have the tradition to have a dip in the ocean in Scheveningen (near The Hague). During summer we love to swim, otherwise we love to walk on our beaches and have the winds help clear our heads. 😊
33:53 Amsterdam's latitude is roughly 52°N so more northern than Vancouver and Calgary. However, in part due to the warm gulf stream of the Atlantic Ocean, its climate is much warmer. In summer (certainly in the last 2 decades), temperatures can reach in the high 20s° Celsius and occasionally even low 30° C. So yes, in summer the wide sandy beaches are packed and people swim. The temperature of the coastal waters of the North Sea in summer can reach 22° C, although 16 to 18 (celcius) is more likely.
"Rick Steve's Europe as a european is definitely some of my favourite travel content, he does an amazing job showing and getting involved with local culture as well as teaching. Hes been doing this show for well over 20 years now so some of them might be back in the early 2000s like the nothern ireland one, which is really nostalgic to see how things were during my childhood.
If you want more in depth and comparison video's between Netherlands/North America you should try out 'Not Just Bikes' youtube channel
Not just bikes specifically compares infrastructure differences and its effects on how society works.
Next video you should watch is how the Dutch made these dikes in the olden days from generation to generation very interesting. There is one famous video about it. Unfortunately I forgot the name.
One is called " De Storm".
Greeting from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
6:58 White and blue porcelain is very common, many countries made it. Delft's Blauw, or Delft Blue, became famous for its artwork, quality and colour.
41:03 no, it became fresh water from an arm of the Rhine river flowing north named the Ijssel. Fresh water pushed salt water out, so the ginormous lake is also a freshwater reservoir for drinkingwater.
Smoked eal is devine. It tastes like a really fatty warm smoked chick-meat , not fishy at all, we call it "god in your mouth". Sooo soo good.
Have the viewers of the videos noticed that when the visitor asks something in English, they get an immediate answer in their own language? Try this in another country.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
I promise you, and I am.not a real fish person a vegetarian even these days, but smoked eel is so delicious especially on a bun.
Try it if you ever visit the Netherlands!
Same here. It used to be my favourite fish by far before I stopped eating fish.
LOL, your comments about eating fish far from the sea. ever heard of deep freeze ;-) The herring intestines are removed just after catch at sea (near Denmark and Norway btw), the fish is salted and instantly deep frozen on board. All fish (not only herring) mend to be eaten uncooked has, according to law, been deep frozen for a certain period of time to prevent a certain parasite to damage the human body. As you know.. deep frozen food can be transported over very long distances. So it's safe to eat salted herring where ever you are. The fish monger defrosts the herring and lets it cure so long the herring has optimal texture and taste and to sell it cleaned from skin and bones. That's why there is difference between fish mongers.. the way they cure the herring and how they clean it.
The windmail was a multifunctional tool, they could easily attach a saw and that was one of the reason we ruled the seas when we could mass process logs to build ships in a time everyone else used a hand saw to turn logs into planks
Smoked eel was by far my favourite fish. It tastes amazing. It's shame it's almost brought to extinction now.
@@Hadewijch_ thanks to France and Spain. They catch al the baby glass eels by return from the saragosso sea. And the EU let it happen.
@@jankokoens1838 it's a sad situation. The EU should put more pressure on members to follow EU laws concerning environmental issues and wildlife protection.
@@Hadewijch_ like they did by the Dutch pulse fishing
@@jankokoens1838 wasn’t that because the French fishermen didn’t like the competition?
@@Hadewijch_ yep, and the French stil have engines from the last century. Extreme bad for the environment, compaire the Dutch fleet engines
Factcheck: the Zuiderzee is called IJsselmeer since 25 september 1933.
These flowers also go to the US by aircraft, check out " Deltaworks Netherlands "
6:30 not sure if it’s still there, but the best ice cream ever is sold at that square
Your reaction was great. It's nice to see positive reactions to my country.
The original video shows Holland as a pittoresk village. That's funny. Based on the footage throughout the video, you would never guess it is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
Händel and Mozart played on that organ in Haarlem.
And if you find this amasing, try the Eise Eisinga planetarium in Franeker in the Friesland provence. Mr Eisinga build a moving solarsystem in his ceiling. It's all made of wood too. His whole house is a planetarium he started building the solarsystem in 1774 en was done with it in 1781. In that time there were only 6 planets. It still runs and its still acurate. (for those 6 known planets). If you want to marvel at someting go there.
Smoked eel, when you smell it you want to eat it. Warm just out of the smokehouse. Delicious
22:07 Not really the blue collar people, the gentlemen on these paintings are more comparable to modern day Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs. Some of them became so rich, they could very well be considered the Bill Gates’s, Zuckerbergs and Musks of their time.
The Ijsselmeer is pure fresh water now. All the salt has been flushed out by the rivers, so we have the biggest freshwater lake in Europe now. Good thing to have actually.
Niet vergeten om de hoofdletter J te schrijven 🙂
And practical as well...
The Dutch made ships ten times faster than any country in the 15th till 17th century because we used windmills to saw the wood... Temperatures in the Netherlands are between winter 28 F and 86 F in summer.
Love this reaction, but one thing, which you should’ve learned by now is… never just assume anything if you haven’t been there. You can swim in the North Sea, but only in the summer. Then the water get’s warmed enough to swim and enjoy it. In the winter there are still those Dutch “pinguins” swimming in incecold water. Not for me either 😅 The Netherlands is as high on the map as northern mainland USA, so don’t they swim there? Is that what you’re saying? Oh and the North Sea isn’t that healthy to swim because it’s the busiest sea route in whole Europe. The water is poluted by all the ship and boat traffic. It’s a wonder that there are still animals living in the sea here haha 😂
The most touristic destinations are In North and South Holland provinces. But the rest of the Netherlands is equally interesting. There are many fortified cities with lots of history to explore, many towns with great city centers just to enjoy and even the smaller cities and places have interesting and surprising things to explore 😅 It’s not so that all places outside of Amsterdam are in a swamp and that there’s nothing to do there. You would be surprised if you visit the Netherlands or any other country in Europe. After visiting the Netherlands go to Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark and so on. You’re in for a surprise for sure.
There are many Americans who think that the USA invented everything. You will see that that’s absolutely not the case. To give a few examples… I’m sure you’re using wifi and bluetooth making this reaction video. Those are some recent Dutch inventions. And all European countries have their own inventions made in the past thousand years. Even in the ages when there was no electricity, they made it all work and we’re still using many of those techniques in modern time. So keep exploring the world. There’s so much to learn, for all of us 👍
Most of the water pumping nowadays is done by diesel engines. Windmills nowadays are used to grind grains in the traditional way, creating baking products like bread and cake. You can buy these products in the super market. We do swim in the sea, but the water is very cold. Eel tastes fishy but the meat has a firmer texture than fish. It's quite delicious once you get over the 'eel' part. While he did venture out of Amsterdam, it looks like he only hit tourist attractions. The towns he visits are known for their tourism. Nothing wrong with it, but this is not the Netherlands that most of us live in.
There are also lots of old windmills inland from the coastal area. These were predominantly sawmills and grain mills. It's just a huge wind powered engine, hook something up to the output shaft and your imagination is the limiting factor.
37:19 if you like such museums, also bookmark the historic town of Orvelte (Or-vell-tuh), the museum area 'Zaanse Schans' (a place where several historic buildings mainly from across the province of North Holland were moved to. It's a bit of a (Chinese) tourist trap through) and the Open Air Museum in Arhem (similar to Zaanse Schans in that it is a collection of historic buildings which were moved to the museum area, but much larger, much more varied and much less tourist trappy).
Would love more Rick Steve's Europe. As a Dane, I think he captured the experience of Denmark the best out of every youtube video on the site. The video title: Denmark beyond Copenhagen.
Also, he just has great vibes 😍
Really enjoyed your reaction to this video ( and to the video itself)
Kind greetings from a Dutchie; by the way, you'd LOVE smoked eel...it's really really good!
As a Dutch person I approve of the intro Rick gave. He should have gone to Drenthe tho, that's so much more amazing
Do you really want those Chinese, American, and other tourists taking over your villages?
Advice: do NOT visit North Brabant, nothing to see, boring as hell.
At 18:36 min.: Misconception about herring: the notion that herring is eaten 'raw' is misleading. After the fish is caught and - crucially - cleaned aboard (Dutch invention) a trawler, the herring is put in salt straight away. The salt functions as a strong food preservative, and an enzyme ripening process is started. The herring will stay fresh for a very long time thereafter!
Not only that. The pancreas is left in the fish so it ferments in its own enzymes. It's not just salted fish.
@@rmyikzelf5604 Inderdaad, ik wilde niet te veel in detail gaan. De Hollandse Nieuwe zijn trouwens weer retegoed dit jaar!
Om heel technisch te zijn, 'rauw' omvat toch ook producten die een mate van fermentatie (zijn) ondergaan. Er zijn geen externe processen toegepast om het product, de samenstelling of de smaak aan te passen. Kortweg: rauw omvat ook producten die gefermenteerd zijn.
@@Goenie2005 Sorry, 'hebben ondergaan'!
Today most of the polders depend on electric powered "pumps" (gemalen) to keep the water out of the polders. But the windmolens are still there, they just don't have to operateur daily anymore. Most are on Saturday though....
It's sand. It washed away, but it is put back again so the beash it self doesnt sink away. Looks nasty but it's just sand.
The windmills still work the oldfasioned way. But most of the time electrical pumps in pumpingstations are used to keep us dry. This one probably has more a sightseeing function than the actual pumping function. And if it does, as said the pumping stations assist.
As for the sea being cold, find a video of a 'nieuwjaarsduik' - new years' dive - where people start the new year by going into the sea :)
In the summertime its okay. Not like the mediterranean, but a Nice refreshing dip and source of play.
He he Gerookte Paling is super healthy and tastes delicious.
There is also a competition Nederlands 🇳🇱 Palingroken and My husband has won 1st prize several times.🏆
Also Haring with uitjes is yummy 😋
In this video there are places I have been, Haarlem, Enkhuizen been to the Windmill.
I myself come from a fishing village of VOLENDAM on the Zuiderzee,
I can see Marken from the dijk of Volendam.
You can see my village Volendam from The ship on the water WoW 🤩
From Amsterdam it is it approximately 20 kilometers 🥰
Thanks guys, it was great to see this again.
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Summer temperatures varies from 68 to 77 Fahrenheit, average. Never rely on sunny weather, always expecting rain.
I'm a born and raised Dutchy. And, at 60 years old, I'm still not adjusted to the weather. For me, to cold and to less sun
Geat reaction mad lads. Learned a few more things (and I'm even Dutch :)
We ain't too bad :) Love our ancestors.
(and our painters. no photos so they thought; hey why not let's pre-emptive this coming madness)
Yes we can !
Delftware forms part of the worldwide family of blue and white pottery, using variations of the plant-based decoration first developed in 14th-century Chinese porcelain, and in great demand in Europe.
38:00 Smoked eal is the most delicious thing on earth !!!
Very (VERY) expensive today !
The eals are born in Holland and cross the Ocean to the Saragosse Sea. Once they're grown up; they come back to Holland to lay there eggs. ( Some 15 years later !!!) But because of our waterworks...well, they can't really enter the Netherlands.
So they became rare.
As à child ; 45 years ago, I remember fishing them in my hometown. Now they are a bit taboo in Holland. 😢
There are churches in the Netherlands that are older than the USA as you know it. The oldest ones have their origines in the 10 th century. The colonisation of America started in 1492 with Columbus. Most of the stones ones are build in the 1200-1300 AC. So yeah....
But you are right. Often the churches were the only stone bluildings in the city often also build on a high point, or created high point like a terp (manmade hill, Vikings used them in the olden days as protection to flooding) When a storm would hit, all the people would gather in the church, because that would be the safest place to be. So remember, a whole town would fit in a church. Now adays that would be insane.
The IJsselmeer (IJssel lake) is now fully fresh water because of a dam and a dike in the north and a fresh water river ( the IJssel) that floats into the lake.
I love smoked eel and it is about the most delicious food/fish you can eat. If it wasn't as expensive as it is, I would eat it every day.
One hidden gem for foreigners is Den Bosh with the river the Binnendieze running below the city. You can take a boat tour that basically goes below the city.
Plus the city itself is really nice, with a large part of the defending walls still there.
Once on a "afdelingsuitje" me and my colleagues from work went on boat trip through Den Bosch. I loved all the new things I learned even though I visit the city often enough.
Im from South Holland and take all this for granted as if its not big of a deal.... seeing this and especially your reaction makes me appreciate the ground i life on more as of now .....them old Dutch Bastards were pretty inventive ...well ....not me 😂😂😂
Proud resident of Hoorn here. Born and raised.
Felt so dorry for the camera msn,he cut another second piece of cheese and looked and gestured for the camera man Rick took it straight awsy and ate it!
Thank's guys for your comments.
If you come to visit the Netherlands : don't forget the cities of Alkmaar en Schagen. ( In the North. Only half an hour by train from Amsterdam)
Den Helder for it's large beaches and many bars and restaurants.
I ride trough West Friesland.
In South Holland Delft and Leiden and Gouda !
Utrecht is beautiful and all the small towns with their castles...
Brabant is wonderful.
Or try Groningen in the north-east ( brings tears to my eyes every time I think about this county !)
Zutphen ; Arnhem ; Apeldoorn should be on your list. Nijmegen also.
And Drenthe...to do by bike.
Please enjoy my country. ❤❤❤❤
they also used the mills to saw wood, the oldes mill is in amsterdam just here around the corner... there are mills in amsterdam
Of course the flowers go overseas, by airplane
Yep! High quality goes all over the world, mass production stays more local in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
They didn't paint the blue collars, they painted the rich merchants... Let's say 'importers'. Owning ships or even fleets.😊
Yes, we swim in the sea. As to temperature, well, 68-73F in summer.
Thats end of summer.. begin and mid summer its about 51F
@@jasper46985 well yeah of course mid summer :P who the hell would swim not in mid summer :P
@@gfimadcat hahah 🤙
You guys do realize that these windmills fulfill a historical function. It's hundreds of years old obsolete technology.
Today our water management is computer controlled and doesn't need much attention or maintenance to keep working 24/7.
They do not see any electricity and telephone poles, so they think we still live with candles...
And that same water management is now one of the products that the Netherlands sells all over the world. If you want to keep your feet dry, you call the Dutch.
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Sometimes I wish we were.
Only not too long.
I'm allergic to horse manure.
16°C is a comfortable water temperature in the North Sea to take a bath in summer😊👍🏻
Don't drink the water, but definitely eat the eel!
Also, Rick missed a lot. Like f.i:
Giethoorn (you get around in boats only);
Groningen (do the boat tour);
the entire Afsluitdijk;
Arnhem.
Much more. :)
2:45 atcually he does stick to Amsterdam... everything shown is in the West, not more then an hourr away from Amsterdam.. It be an amazingly good video if he went North, cross the Enclosuredike ( Afsluitdijk in Dutch) and made a roundtrip through all the provinces... Netherlands is mor ethen the Hollands and it is ashame it isn't shown, but rather good video production.
Sorry every Child learns how to swim from the age of 4
33:11
Do we swim ? 😂
Offcourse we swim !!! The water temp. on the coast of Holland is delicious ! 😅
We swim, only in the last part of summer - at least I do. 🤣
And by the way smoked eel is very good, not “fishy”. It’s a shame they almost got extinct. Not because of fishing but because of the young eel cannot enter the ‘inside’ waters because everting is locked by dykes locks and other measures to keep the sea outside.
I have absolutely no religion. But I always like the Pope when he is thanking the Netherlands for the flowers. There is no year passed he did that.
Smoked eel! It's fatty, buttery soft, and its taste is incredible, incomparable to anything.
The smoked eel is delicious and a New Years tradition in our family. Unfortunately it’s also an endangerd species. So eating it is accompanied with a bit of a guilty feeling. It’s like eating a panda…..
Skip Amsterdam, go to Haarlem which feels like Amsterdam but without the tourists and go to Utrecht when you like the good life and canals. Then also go to Maastricht for a greater European experience, French influence, a big river flowing through it and enjoy the catholic burgundian lifestyle. Wine, beer and incredible food. Outside of Maastricht you can cross over into Germany, Belgium and back into the Netherlands in three steps.
And if you want to see original old buildings brought in from all over the Netherlands go to the Dutch open air museum in Arnhem. People there demonstrate and explain the workings of a windmill f.e.
The Dutch are build different ! 😂🤣 you know that the best products always go far ! so the good fish is not near the sea !! just like our best flowers always go out side of the Netherlands ! ( good export products pay's better ) the sea water in the Netherlands is very good ( not to cold and not to warm for nice refreshment in summer !
The sea is about 20 degrees centigrade in summer
You should definatelly react to the Ney Year's dive in Scheveningen
Actually the Dutch herring fishery always remained more profitable than the whole VOC (Dutch East India Company) with it's Asian trade, including but certainly not exclusively spices. The Delft Bleu is originally a cheap imitation off of Chinese porcelain the middle class could afford, the Chinese just like the Indians, Persians and Japanese were far too sophisticated to take an interest in European goods. So it was mostly traded for either silver or spices from elsewhere in Asia. The VOC did most of it's trade within Asia instead of sailing back for over a year every time.
The Dutch first almost monopolized the herring trade, an important nutriant to the whole of Northern Europe, by inventing gibbing for conservation and on ship processing in the 14th century. In the late 16th century they invented the wind saw mill, allowing them to build ships 30 times faster than anybody else. Together with early central banking and it's low interests they outcompeted everybode and by 1650 over half of the European merchant fleet was from the Dutch Republic. That drove the British out to other continents, where they had to compete with the Dutch too, but they primarily went to Asia first to fight the ongoing war for independence with Spain and Portugal. The Dutch East India company opened the world too the Dutch, but economically it was almost insignificant compared to the dominance of the far bigger and far more frequent and safe European trade. But the small port city of Hoorn was relatively big in the VOC.
The Dutch Republic's government was protestant but it had introduced religious tolerance, both protestants and catholics wanted religious tolerance and stood up to the Spanish king and declared him to have left the throne for being a tyrant trampling on their inalienable rights, the freedom of conscience of how to serve god in particular. That did end big churches as symbols of worldly, political power of the catholic church though. Catholics could get rich but had to have mass in their own homes and barns.
I believe only the Japanese treat the eel as the delicacy it is too, and they have a better reputaton on fine dining than the Dutch, to put it mildly. It's really fatty, tender and smokey and not very fishy.
02:20 this 'classic windmill ' is certainly NOT in Holland. Maybe in the south of the Netherlands ?
24:00 The organ of Saint Bavo in Haarlem is since 1734 the unbeaten 'biggest' organ in the world !
( After this, in the 20th century 'larger' organs were build. But not with so many registers ! Mozart played on this organ and it is 73 feet high.
Amsterdam is just one big tourist trap. As a Dutchie, I'm avoiding going to Amsterdam as much as I can. To me, the only things worth while are the museums and other historical sites. But the Netherlands has so much more to offer and other places aren't so crowded as Amsterdam.
What prides me as a Dutchie is the impact we had, and still have on the world in a country with 17mln people. The inventions that came from here and the amount of world renowned athletes and (musical) artists.
This was class lads
The Netherlands are in Western Europe not in the north! Scandinavia for example is in Northern Europe. Great reaction btw!
Hahaha! "Would you consider the Netherlands 'northern' Europe?" .... "Yeah, yeah its in the northern part of Europe". You Guys really made me laugh here. Would you consider Germany to be in the northern part of Europe? I guess you wouldn't. Well...... the Netherlands are just one of our western neighbours! More south than Denmark actually. And yes, you can swim in the Northsea, at least during summertime and if you don't expect water temperatures like in Florida :)
At 28:42 min.: Building 'De Rotterdam' (2013) by Rem Koolhaas and OMA architects!
Rick missed about 10 other provinces in the Netherlands
Rick did what you should do: get out of the city filled whit tourists and explore the country. There is so much history in the country.
Hey!
There is one big mistake in that Vider.
He constandly uses Holland.
But its the Netherlands.
Holland is just a smal part.
Amsterdam Area is North Holland and Rotterdam Area is South Holland !
To be fair, he only visited places in the Holland provinces. He mentioned the Netherlands quite a lot too.
Edit: Also, the video was published in 2014, well before our government officially denounced the ‘nickname’ in 2020.
Please please please.... explain that North Holland and South Holland are just 2 of the 12 Dutch provinces. Any foreigner might confuse them with the northern part and with the southern part of the entire country of the Netherlands.
Ik heb dit al minstens twee keer moeten uitleggen aan buitenlandse toeristen. Ik denk dat ze het nog steeds niet begrijpen.
Fresh fish doesn't taste fishy. Fresh smoked fish is soooo good.
I’ll dare you Daniel; if you visit The Netherlands I am 100% sure you’ll be addicted to smoked eel.
At 29:31 min.: Cape Horn was named after the town of Hoorn!
I like how simplistic you compare the old with the new.
Fun fact: New York was New Amsterdam. There still are references like Haarlem near Amsterdam and Harlem near New York or Breukelen and Broocklin. Coney Island is in fact Konijnen Eiland (Bunny Island). Wallstreet is walstraat in history a wal was a wooden wall defence mechanism.
It is nice to know that our two countries share a history. We laid the foundation for New York and other places, which the following generations have continued. The Netherlands may be small in size, but we leave a big footprint all over the world.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
The mils are olso used to saw the wood for the wouden schips !
Mill grain and make paper etc.
Haha only the smal western part of the Netherlands: 'Holland' - but the cities of Nijmegen and Maastricht are at least as old (hint: roman era) and even cities like Den Bosch, Breda, Sittard and Eindhoven (southern part of the Netherlands) have "city"-rigths longer than Amsterdam.
1:14 Empties his can and flatten it. InEurope that can is worth 0,15 . Well, when we buy cans we also buy 0,15 for that extra, for us that's a refund in the grocery store.
for sure you got to go to maastricht in limburg do not stay in amsterdam.... actually take 2 weeks and visit every province.. with the train and buss you can go through the whole of the netherlands. but do not speak of walters world as that dude has everything wrong.. I so very very dislike that man !
I got a dutch museum interactive.
Noord and South Holland don't represent the rest of the country which significant different in culture and socialize cohesion
about flooding.. CNN has 59 minutes about Netherlands, yuo;ll find it interesting