Liege is going through a lot of construction work including the construction of tram lines which makes the city a little messy and a lot shops closed as well due to the lack of accessibility. It's a wonderful city known for its night life but I'd recommend coming by summer 2025.
About the grey ' look' in liège, it is Belgian Bluestone, and most buildings are 200-300 years old and made in that quality product. Don't understand before going up the stairs de Bueren, turn left, as that is the nicest part, a staircase 1 metre wide. that leads to the Liège gardens, and you come across a beer brewery.
My wife and i just got back from Liege two days ago, I was dragged kicking and screaming to a concert at a place called Le Forum, we stayed at an apartment to in the building to the left of the old palace in your early clip, We loved it, was there alot of beggars, yes, did we ever feel threatened, no, and when we didn't know things people were always happy to help, I know we only spent a few days there and local have to live with it, but i would go back in a heart beat, We didn't do the steps, as we only found out about them the day we were leaving, There is so much history there. Great video.
One little tip. Once up at the top of the "escaliers de Bueren", pay a visite to what we call "the coteaux" which are in facts litle pathway on the slopes around theses stairs. Also, I advise you to go a bit further that the bottom on the stairs, a bit away from the center in the same streets called "hors chateau" (which means oustide the walls), there, you'll discover little charming dead-end streets. Lovely. Get lost on the famous roof-top of the old post office alongside the Meuse. While you are at it, just wander on the side of the river. You can also pick-up a little boat that goes up and down on the river in the summer month (don't do that if you are in a hurry ;-) ). Oh, try as much as you can the little bars all around the city center, there are to many to name them (by the way, Lou's bar is great with concerts on the Sunday, mind the "ti punch" (rhum-lime-sugar), they are quite....punchy.
Thanks for the tips! Always a reason to go back and visit again!
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Next time you come to Liège (and inside the cathedral), don't hesitate ton contact us (ask for Alexandre). We'd be happy to make you visit the entirety of the Treasure House and the carpentry woodwork. You've filmed an entire video without speaking to anyone, which is not a good way to discover our city: we have a wonderful patrimony, but the people of Liège are the real jewel. A guided tour will make you fall in love with the city and its inhabitants. Because, if you discover Liège correctly, you'll cry when you arrive, but you'll cry even more when you leave! ;-)
Luik/Liège isn't bad at all, just a bit grey. That what hasn't been build in a grey color, turned grey with all the "heavy" industry of the past. I agree it's a bit more of a real city than Amsterdam is. It hasn't been polished as much for tourism.
Incroyable : faire "découvrir" Liège mais ignorer tous les espaces verts comme les coteaux (la campagne sur des dizaines d'hectares) en plein centre ville sans oublier que Liège est une des villes au monde ayant le plus d'espaces verts par habitant.
@@DRnozakivous êtes durs, je trouve que leur visite est une des plus intéressantes et honnêtes que j'aie vues. Bien sûr, on ne peut pas tout voir en un WE
I live in Liège very cool to see it from another perspective it is true that it's raining, gray and dirty. But people are way chiller here and can party a lot too
the place st lambert where the prince bishop lives ? st lambert was a bishop that lived 1000 years ago .. We are not in the middle age haha LOL .. nowadays this building is the justice court of Liège . But Anyway that's a pity you visited very few from Liège because the heart of the city is actually in the upper Liège .. if you go up after the buren stairs then go down from there to the left you can see beautiful picturesque small streets in the Publémont which aren't grey at all and often there is some that have little courtyard and garden, some house dates from the 16 century ... too bad you did not visit this part and also there is not only this cathedral that you saw but another one which was not too far and there is a beautiful garden next to the cathedral .. also you missed the other side of the river ,, outremeuse and the park of the Boverie which has a really beautiful that is also a museum of art . There is also one of the most beautiful bridge of Belgium which was built in the same time as one in Paris ( which kind of look similar ) for the universal exposition in 1905 but it s not downtown it's just before the train station .. this city takes time to visit because there are also many little street with rampart that goes up and it s not so conveniant to walk , many street have stairs also but then it s the charm of the city .. i m from Liege and i find that the center itself place st lambert is not the most picturesque part of the city . it would have been better to take a guide with you because this city does not have really big attractions for tourist .. as you search also on the internet or guide , they don't really show liege as its advantage and they say there are few things to see only like the buren stairs and some museum but there are many more and it s not just a party city as it's also reputed to be just a party place in Belgium among student especially .. also dirty in some areas yes ,because also of many construction work and demolition of historical places that often have disfigured the city over years but pretty if you find the time to explore ... also a pretty cool place to see is the basilica called the sacré coeur and it's more up in the city .. we can see it from the train station .. and it's another part of the city which is also up and you have a nice view from the station .. Next time i hope you come back and visit some others parts of Liège but maybe it will be better from january 2025 after the tramway constructions are over .. ahh and the place you've been for the meatball was good but not the best for people here , there are some places with that are more specialized with boulet liégeois .. Like "café lequet " near the market you've been is among the best and one of the oldest place to eat it
Thanks for the great info. We know it’s impossible to see all of a city in a short time or video. The vlog tends to just be what we were able to get to and this might be interesting on that particular day. Many people here in The Netherlands told us we would not like Liege… they were incorrect. We hope to come back and will definitely take some of your tips!
"they" never went to Liège . "They hate Wallonia" We know who "they" are and won't forget . This little town of 195 000 inhabitants in the middle of a 700 000 urban aera .It's a grey city because they use grey stones to build their houses but they use red bricks too so it's a red and grey city . Muricuns have funny ideas .But i must admit that in the end they give a thumb up to Liège who's not a city for tourists but the people there live well .
You selected a very bad moment to visit Liège, go again in one year, it will be much better. Comment to your visit: The station colours were added later, it is normally transparent / white, and not sure the colours will remain forever, it might be temporary. Place St Lambert building is mainly the Tribunal of the province, that place is normally nice but quite ugly because of the works ongoing. Gauffre waffles are better hot, don't let them become cold. You were very courageous to take the stairs up to the top, i think I never did it. You found the Sunday market, congratulations, you missed the river though, there are ferrys on river going from around the train station down the market where you were, a very nice way of discovering the city and situate some of the museums. The church you show is in the center and somehow surrounded by small street and in particular "The carré" which is famous for bars (a students hot spot) and restaurants at night. Meatballs in Liège indeed very well known in the whole country. There is a place in Liège you need to find (I think it's called Lequet ?) where you wil find very artisanal Liège meatball with Fries.
It's so funny and special to see how foreigners discover my home city. I will love my city for ever despite many weaknesses.....but the soul and the mood are incomparable....come and visit us.....
The Calatrava designed Guillemins train station in Liège, while architecturally stunning with its open, airy structure, seems impractical for Belgium's cold, windy, and humid climate, and the exorbitant cost of the project could have been better allocated to more pressing infrastructure needs.
Hey, nice to see my city ! :) I'm living next to the centre. The city is a bit dirty, yes, but please note that it's way messier than it usually was because of the tram lines, which have been under construction for years, and a lot of stores and shops closed because of that. The construction budget skyrocketed, but it should be finished in 2025, fortunately. You should come back in a couple of years, maybe around the October Fair, which is very typical of the city. You should also note that the colors on Calatrava's Guillemins train station were not initially planned and are decals added later by an artist. It was meant to be temporary, but I guess it costed so much to apply (and will cost some more to remove) that it stayed ;) At the top of the Bueren stairs, you probably missed a beautiful view on the city if you didn't walk around the citadel. Liège is famous for its night life style indeed. I'm just a few streets away from the "Au Point de Vue" tavern/restaurant, which I go from time to time. I'd also recommend "Chez Philippe" at the top of Haute-Sauvenière street, for great "french" fries, meatballs and "filet américain" (which, despite its name, has been invented in Brussels). If you like chocolate (which Belgium is also famous for), I'd highly recommend the "Franz" shop in the middle of Saint-Gilles street.
So… we have been to Ghent before the blog. Need to do a video there, for sure! Here is what we have in Belgium: ruclips.net/video/3WNCpRwfKos/видео.html ruclips.net/video/sGoNRWAKGbI/видео.html ruclips.net/video/V8UEOmsuFlw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/sQqLkDPhnJk/видео.html Your posts are giving us some ideas!
´Y a plusieurs membres de la famille de ma mere qui viennent de Liege, en vrai une ville super cool que je kiffe bien moi 😊 ~Une hyper ravissante video celle-ci, **Nate & Katrina** 👍 ❤, 💖 / 💖, ❤
Ooohhhh now I want a big meatball. I think I know that parking garage. Steep and narrow and old! You think the colorful trainstation is to compensate for all the gray buildings? Must have been expensive though, paid with taxpayers money. It's a shame you didn't get to enjoy some Belgian beers. After a few of those you don't mind all the gray and the dirt. In Belgium they know how to eat and drink. And most of them are also extremely nice people. Keep it up!
I am from Liège and live here - the colouring of the station is temporary (should be taken off within the next few months), and cost 600.000€ (just for the colouring) - however only 10% of the cost to colour the station was paid by the taxpayers money, as 90% of the whole cost was funded by donators :) The man behind this is the french artist Daniel Buren.
Tbh, Im Liegan and Ive to say that maybe summer 2026 might be a better date to be sure that all the majors public works will be finished ^^. But yes, it's a rly rich history city in Belgium. Humans are living there since around 10000 BC (at least some human camps were founded there ^^). It was an old Roman villa wich was a huge farm domain at the ancient Rome Empire period then when Saint Lambert died in martyr in the 8th century it became a pelgrim spot and then evoluated into an episcopal city led byt the Archbishop of Maastricht even if its capital was mainly Liège due to its religiousimportance. Then it becomes an Episcopal Principalty wich was attached to the Holy Germanic Roman Empire. At that era the Archbishop was also Prince and was called Prince Archbishop wich was a special Title and was ordonated by the Pope and in the same time feal of the Germanic Emperor. He was granted both spirutal and secular powers ^^. During that period Liège was also called the "one hundred bell tower city" due to the number of churches, abbays and monasteries into the city. We had also one of the biggest cathedral in Europe (if not the biggest but im not sure, it was bigger but a bit similar to Notre Dame of Paris and both the roofs of that cathedral were covered with gold sheets) but the Liegans destroyed it themselves when they revolt against the last Archbishop, it was after the French Revolution but before Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Europe. Its kinda messy i know, but well that's my city history and now the city got a huge student population due to the University so during scholar espally there is a rly intersting night life ^^.
Well of course in French the very word which translates as ¨station¨ actually IS *>* ... that particular one in the video being > ... and ¨garish¨ would be > 😊.... ~🩷
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Uhm ??? You went to the car park near the Train Station and driving with a car to the City Center of Liege ??? Ugh ! At least You could've walked alongside the Meuse to the city center ! It takes about 20 minuts...
As someone born and raised in Liège I have no idea what you're talking about. We inhabitants are proud French speakers. You might be mixing it up with our german-speaking Eupen neighbours but regardless of old history, the average Liège inhabitant struggles to form a single sentence in Dutch and we speak even less German.
I love your videos! When I visited Liège a few years ago (after a 2 hour boat ride from Maastricht) the city provided a free map which was so inaccurate that it was funny. Spend a lovely afternoon there. Jacques Brel made a depressing yet beautiful song ‘il neige sur Liège’ (it’s snowing over Liège) that fits the atmosphere (ruclips.net/video/dCX9n8jJiMc/видео.htmlsi=s1cotssPPCM7kSHB).
It's the Walloon efficiency for you! 🤣If you've visited the Walloon life museum, I think the fact half of screens are broken is pretty much telling of everything about that lmao. Also maybe of the poverty aspect of Wallonia and therefore of its infrastructures, on a bit sadder note.
What is nice about Liege is not the city but the people and you did not meet any local , next time take time to talk to people they are the nicest in Belgium and in Europe imo! I spent amazing there , but I am French and speak the language.
Welcome Liège morocco city in Belgium .... Greetings from a real european native ... Just disgusting we' re under islamic tsunami migration ....Bonjour à nos amis américains, Liège est 1 ville islamique .... Parole de liégeois ...
En tant que Liégeoise, ce serait bien d'arrêter de parler en notre nom et de nous donner une mauvaise réputation. On n'est pas tous racistes et xénophobes, amicalement.
well for one day, certainly it comes as "exotic", even "nice". But living here, between the fact that everything is grey, the dirtiness, pauperty, toxicomany, abnormal prices, grey people (unless they had one many beer, that seems to be the national sport there), well that is the reality. But thank god for these toursits, they just stay one to three days there.
Grey people? Seriously? Our city is known for having among the nicest people in Belgium. In fact walloons in general are more compared to Spaniards in terms of friendliness than to our Flemish neighbours. The average person in Liège will slow down while walking so they can greet you and hear your response back.
@@disco_depression Arrête un peu de sortir des stéréotypes que vous vous inventez vous-même cons de liégeois. Toi tu ne connais pas du tout les espagnols, je suis d'origine étrangère né ici et tout ce que j'ai connu dans cette ville de merde moche et puante, c'est le racisme la froideur des gens et l'ignorance crasse.
I wouldn't know what's so great about Liege apart from the station. Dinant and Namur are more interesting.
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From a heritage point of view, Liège is extremely rich, thanks to its almost thousand-year history as a Principality (which, by the way, Dinant was part of). But I respect your opinion.
Liège est la plus grande ville et c’est la ville avec le plus de patrimoine classé de Wallonnie, elle possède 7 collégiales qui devrait d’ici peut être inscrites à l’Unesco, un palais des princes évêques, etc donc non définitivement Liège est plus intéressante d’un point de vue historique et quantitatif que Dînant et Namur qui sont aussi des belles villes mais pas du niveau de Liège
@@francoissnoeck In Liege you can still see the leftovers of the abandoned metal inbustry, which is quite depressing. I find it also more dirty than Namur or Dinant
@@wanneske1969 Yes, these blast furnaces are part of our history, when Liege was one of the places where industry was one of the most flourishing in Europe and fortunately some will be preserved; a museum project is currently being carried out. However, I would like to contradict the fact that you say that Dinant and Namur are more interesting than Liege; of course, these cities are worth visiting. But in no case can we omit the history and heritage importance of Liege. Of which, I remind you, Dinant was a good city in the principauté of Liege. All three cities are interesting to see.
@@wanneske1969 Of course, the abandoned factories in the valley will be largely destroyed to make way for other types of economic activities. That is why I would like to point out that it is good to preserve some elements of our industrial past which, believe it or not, can be exploited for tourist purposes.
I'm in shock the difference in clean streets vs the Netherlands. But also the big buildings, they could use a facade cleaning. Like the church. About 7-8 years ago it was bit better, (i mean in Bruges i came a lot) but i would not be surprised if there are rats in Liège. Sad, i love ❤ Belgium, it's not taking care of there infrastructure and precious buildings. 😢
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I don’t know what you’re referring to, but the St. Paul’s cathedral was totally refurbished a few years ago.
while visiting liege city i have seen at multiple time the city hall workers urinating in public ...i was shocked . lets move the EU parliament to Amsterdam
"the city hall workers urinating in public" they are toilets in the city hall . Maybe they urinated before entering the city hall because they prefer doing it in outside ? LOL your nonsense is for all to see . People with half a brain can easily come to the same conclusion .
IMHO, the BIG letdown is Brussels. For a major European city, it’s a disappointment. Chock full of diplomats, EU reps and NATO folk on expense accounts. Very good (very $$$$) restaurants. Just underwhelming. Better bets in Belgium? Bruges. Antwerpen. Love your videos. Keep the jazz music- it just fits. Tot ziens! 👋
You should have stayed in the US. Europe isn't for you. There's too much culture, history, and gastronomy for you to appreciate. And the different languages? They're difficult for you to master.
Thanks for the advice… You are quite opinionated and we love that for you. ✌️ Also… EUROPE is not a country. 😜 Also…this particular video has over 410 likes and less than 10 dislikes… 97% positive. The good news for you here is that you are quite unique and VERY special.
The train station was beautiful. Those colors were not there initially. Now it looks like a circus. The town is dirty and uninteresting compared to other Belgium towns. Trafic is awful and parking terrible. If in the regium just visit Huy, Durbuy, Hasselt or Maastricht (NL) instead.
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Liege is going through a lot of construction work including the construction of tram lines which makes the city a little messy and a lot shops closed as well due to the lack of accessibility. It's a wonderful city known for its night life but I'd recommend coming by summer 2025.
Pure shit city!
About the grey ' look' in liège, it is Belgian Bluestone, and most buildings are 200-300 years old and made in that quality product. Don't understand before going up the stairs de Bueren, turn left, as that is the nicest part, a staircase 1 metre wide. that leads to the Liège gardens, and you come across a beer brewery.
the Curtius brewery, the most Liège beer there is 👍👍
My wife and i just got back from Liege two days ago, I was dragged kicking and screaming to a concert at a place called Le Forum, we stayed at an apartment to in the building to the left of the old palace in your early clip, We loved it, was there alot of beggars, yes, did we ever feel threatened, no, and when we didn't know things people were always happy to help, I know we only spent a few days there and local have to live with it, but i would go back in a heart beat, We didn't do the steps, as we only found out about them the day we were leaving, There is so much history there. Great video.
One little tip. Once up at the top of the "escaliers de Bueren", pay a visite to what we call "the coteaux" which are in facts litle pathway on the slopes around theses stairs. Also, I advise you to go a bit further that the bottom on the stairs, a bit away from the center in the same streets called "hors chateau" (which means oustide the walls), there, you'll discover little charming dead-end streets. Lovely. Get lost on the famous roof-top of the old post office alongside the Meuse. While you are at it, just wander on the side of the river. You can also pick-up a little boat that goes up and down on the river in the summer month (don't do that if you are in a hurry ;-) ). Oh, try as much as you can the little bars all around the city center, there are to many to name them (by the way, Lou's bar is great with concerts on the Sunday, mind the "ti punch" (rhum-lime-sugar), they are quite....punchy.
Thanks for the tips! Always a reason to go back and visit again!
Next time you come to Liège (and inside the cathedral), don't hesitate ton contact us (ask for Alexandre). We'd be happy to make you visit the entirety of the Treasure House and the carpentry woodwork.
You've filmed an entire video without speaking to anyone, which is not a good way to discover our city: we have a wonderful patrimony, but the people of Liège are the real jewel.
A guided tour will make you fall in love with the city and its inhabitants. Because, if you discover Liège correctly, you'll cry when you arrive, but you'll cry even more when you leave! ;-)
We tend to keep to ourselves because people get nervous with the camera. But thanks for watching!
Luik/Liège isn't bad at all, just a bit grey. That what hasn't been build in a grey color, turned grey with all the "heavy" industry of the past. I agree it's a bit more of a real city than Amsterdam is. It hasn't been polished as much for tourism.
Definitely. We enjoyed our afternoon there even if it was quite gray! Thanks for watching!
Incroyable : faire "découvrir" Liège mais ignorer tous les espaces verts comme les coteaux (la campagne sur des dizaines d'hectares) en plein centre ville sans oublier que Liège est une des villes au monde ayant le plus d'espaces verts par habitant.
de toute dacon, c est un trou à rats!!!
En même temps ils n'ont pas l'air d'être les couteaux les plus aiguisés du tiroir. Donc leurs avis...
@@DRnozakivous êtes durs, je trouve que leur visite est une des plus intéressantes et honnêtes que j'aie vues. Bien sûr, on ne peut pas tout voir en un WE
Maybe the city is not top but the people who lives in Liège are the best, funiest, happinest. Love Liège !
I live in Liège very cool to see it from another perspective it is true that it's raining, gray and dirty. But people are way chiller here and can party a lot too
We've heard that it has quite the nightlife scene! ;) Thanks for watching!
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld :)
I'm from a small town near Liège and i thank you for this video😄
Thank you for watching!
See these stairs (Bueren stairs)?! This is what we used to do for the cardio module during PE, running it up and down multiple times, great times! 😂
Il paraît que Liège s'améliore beaucoup ces derniers temps. Il faudra que j'aille y faire un tour.
I am from Maastricht en love Liege,,
I'm from Liege and I love Maastricht 😊
@@NQR-9000 Liege is PURE SHIT! Barakiland!!!!!!!!!!
Whoa-only 6K subscribers?
We gotta get you to 25K muy pronto/tres rapidement/heel snel !!!
Let’s goooooo! 🙌🏻
thank you for talking about us!! 🙂
Everyone told me skip Brussels and I love it so just depends on what you want and like
Fun stuff, a friend lived in the one of the houses (the small one) behind you at 9:10
the place st lambert where the prince bishop lives ? st lambert was a bishop that lived 1000 years ago .. We are not in the middle age haha LOL .. nowadays this building is the justice court of Liège . But Anyway that's a pity you visited very few from Liège because the heart of the city is actually in the upper Liège .. if you go up after the buren stairs then go down from there to the left you can see beautiful picturesque small streets in the Publémont which aren't grey at all and often there is some that have little courtyard and garden, some house dates from the 16 century ... too bad you did not visit this part and also there is not only this cathedral that you saw but another one which was not too far and there is a beautiful garden next to the cathedral .. also you missed the other side of the river ,, outremeuse and the park of the Boverie which has a really beautiful that is also a museum of art . There is also one of the most beautiful bridge of Belgium which was built in the same time as one in Paris ( which kind of look similar ) for the universal exposition in 1905 but it s not downtown it's just before the train station .. this city takes time to visit because there are also many little street with rampart that goes up and it s not so conveniant to walk , many street have stairs also but then it s the charm of the city .. i m from Liege and i find that the center itself place st lambert is not the most picturesque part of the city . it would have been better to take a guide with you because this city does not have really big attractions for tourist .. as you search also on the internet or guide , they don't really show liege as its advantage and they say there are few things to see only like the buren stairs and some museum but there are many more and it s not just a party city as it's also reputed to be just a party place in Belgium among student especially .. also dirty in some areas yes ,because also of many construction work and demolition of historical places that often have disfigured the city over years but pretty if you find the time to explore ... also a pretty cool place to see is the basilica called the sacré coeur and it's more up in the city .. we can see it from the train station .. and it's another part of the city which is also up and you have a nice view from the station .. Next time i hope you come back and visit some others parts of Liège but maybe it will be better from january 2025 after the tramway constructions are over .. ahh and the place you've been for the meatball was good but not the best for people here , there are some places with that are more specialized with boulet liégeois .. Like "café lequet " near the market you've been is among the best and one of the oldest place to eat it
Thanks for the great info. We know it’s impossible to see all of a city in a short time or video. The vlog tends to just be what we were able to get to and this might be interesting on that particular day.
Many people here in The Netherlands told us we would not like Liege… they were incorrect. We hope to come back and will definitely take some of your tips!
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld i'm glad you enjoyed visiting Liège and hope you will see more next time :)
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Dutch hatred toward french speaking people. They remember we kicked them out in 1830 .
Funny, i know this cute little dirty black cat at the top of the stairs 😻
C'est mon chat Figaro,dans la vidéo, il à disparu depuis trois mois ,on est tellement triste 😢, j'espère qu'il va bien ❤.
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"they" never went to Liège . "They hate Wallonia" We know who "they" are and won't forget .
This little town of 195 000 inhabitants in the middle of a 700 000 urban aera .It's a grey city because they use grey stones to build their houses but they use red bricks too so it's a red and grey city .
Muricuns have funny ideas .But i must admit that in the end they give a thumb up to Liège who's not a city for tourists but the people there live well .
Our Calatrava train station looks like a spaceship in the night.
You selected a very bad moment to visit Liège, go again in one year, it will be much better. Comment to your visit: The station colours were added later, it is normally transparent / white, and not sure the colours will remain forever, it might be temporary. Place St Lambert building is mainly the Tribunal of the province, that place is normally nice but quite ugly because of the works ongoing. Gauffre waffles are better hot, don't let them become cold. You were very courageous to take the stairs up to the top, i think I never did it. You found the Sunday market, congratulations, you missed the river though, there are ferrys on river going from around the train station down the market where you were, a very nice way of discovering the city and situate some of the museums. The church you show is in the center and somehow surrounded by small street and in particular "The carré" which is famous for bars (a students hot spot) and restaurants at night. Meatballs in Liège indeed very well known in the whole country. There is a place in Liège you need to find (I think it's called Lequet ?) where you wil find very artisanal Liège meatball with Fries.
Now imagine walking up those stairs on the first day of sport class 😭🤣 + running around the citadelle! I have PTSD
Great video! Love from a liégeoise
Thank you for watching!
Been there (j'ai bien connu ça, mais ça fait longtemps lol).
It's so funny and special to see how foreigners discover my home city. I will love my city for ever despite many weaknesses.....but the soul and the mood are incomparable....come and visit us.....
Everyone has their own experiences which makes travel so fun and unique! Thanks for watching!
Cidade bastante antiga.
Apparently Liège hates tourists from the US. All those stairs without an escalator? How in the world they suppose someone can climb that hill?
Try Paris métro
by being in shape !
@@michaelbellefroid7736 pf course, it was a joke
Bah reste chez toi au pays des gros 😂😂🎉🎉
Have you done Bruges and Ghent?
We have been to both of those cities!
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Good to hear that, amazing places! You guys did my town Alkmaar already. I know I know the cheesemarket is boring haha
"Even the dog gave up" 🤣🤣
was the meetball good?
Very!! That place was really nice.
You're good ambassadors for Liège.
Haha, we just are honest - good or bad! Thanks for watching.
Love the station.
The Calatrava designed Guillemins train station in Liège, while architecturally stunning with its open, airy structure, seems impractical for Belgium's cold, windy, and humid climate, and the exorbitant cost of the project could have been better allocated to more pressing infrastructure needs.
Hey, nice to see my city ! :) I'm living next to the centre.
The city is a bit dirty, yes, but please note that it's way messier than it usually was because of the tram lines, which have been under construction for years, and a lot of stores and shops closed because of that. The construction budget skyrocketed, but it should be finished in 2025, fortunately. You should come back in a couple of years, maybe around the October Fair, which is very typical of the city.
You should also note that the colors on Calatrava's Guillemins train station were not initially planned and are decals added later by an artist. It was meant to be temporary, but I guess it costed so much to apply (and will cost some more to remove) that it stayed ;)
At the top of the Bueren stairs, you probably missed a beautiful view on the city if you didn't walk around the citadel.
Liège is famous for its night life style indeed.
I'm just a few streets away from the "Au Point de Vue" tavern/restaurant, which I go from time to time. I'd also recommend "Chez Philippe" at the top of Haute-Sauvenière street, for great "french" fries, meatballs and "filet américain" (which, despite its name, has been invented in Brussels).
If you like chocolate (which Belgium is also famous for), I'd highly recommend the "Franz" shop in the middle of Saint-Gilles street.
Thanks for the info and for watching!
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld You're very welcome, I'm glad to help :)
Were are the belgium episode like gent ore Mechelen Leuven
So… we have been to Ghent before the blog. Need to do a video there, for sure!
Here is what we have in Belgium:
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Your posts are giving us some ideas!
´Y a plusieurs membres de la famille de ma mere qui viennent de Liege, en vrai une ville super cool que je kiffe bien moi 😊 ~Une hyper ravissante video celle-ci, **Nate & Katrina** 👍 ❤, 💖 / 💖, ❤
Ooohhhh now I want a big meatball. I think I know that parking garage. Steep and narrow and old! You think the colorful trainstation is to compensate for all the gray buildings? Must have been expensive though, paid with taxpayers money. It's a shame you didn't get to enjoy some Belgian beers. After a few of those you don't mind all the gray and the dirt. In Belgium they know how to eat and drink. And most of them are also extremely nice people. Keep it up!
The meatballs were quite good and Katrina has had quite a few Belgian beers in her lifetime! Thanks for watching, Jan!
I am from Liège and live here - the colouring of the station is temporary (should be taken off within the next few months), and cost 600.000€ (just for the colouring) - however only 10% of the cost to colour the station was paid by the taxpayers money, as 90% of the whole cost was funded by donators :) The man behind this is the french artist Daniel Buren.
Most of the costs for the colours were privatly funded.
How about Brugge for a visit? Love your videos.👍👍
Thank you!!! (Keep scrolling, Brugge (Christmas) is way back there… 😀
I grew up in Bruges, it’s the best city in Belgium in terms or architecture, food, people & prizes.
@@robinmangala3536 Bruges is all over you tube , how about going out of the crowded path ?
To be frank, Liège's got to be one of the best cities we have.
top class video again, It was beautiful and interesting to watch again, thank you
Tbh, Im Liegan and Ive to say that maybe summer 2026 might be a better date to be sure that all the majors public works will be finished ^^. But yes, it's a rly rich history city in Belgium. Humans are living there since around 10000 BC (at least some human camps were founded there ^^). It was an old Roman villa wich was a huge farm domain at the ancient Rome Empire period then when Saint Lambert died in martyr in the 8th century it became a pelgrim spot and then evoluated into an episcopal city led byt the Archbishop of Maastricht even if its capital was mainly Liège due to its religiousimportance. Then it becomes an Episcopal Principalty wich was attached to the Holy Germanic Roman Empire.
At that era the Archbishop was also Prince and was called Prince Archbishop wich was a special Title and was ordonated by the Pope and in the same time feal of the Germanic Emperor. He was granted both spirutal and secular powers ^^. During that period Liège was also called the "one hundred bell tower city" due to the number of churches, abbays and monasteries into the city. We had also one of the biggest cathedral in Europe (if not the biggest but im not sure, it was bigger but a bit similar to Notre Dame of Paris and both the roofs of that cathedral were covered with gold sheets) but the Liegans destroyed it themselves when they revolt against the last Archbishop, it was after the French Revolution but before Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Europe.
Its kinda messy i know, but well that's my city history and now the city got a huge student population due to the University so during scholar espally there is a rly intersting night life ^^.
"Mont de Vanin" ? What is that? ^^
For me the right word to describe that station: Garish.
Well of course in French the very word which translates as ¨station¨ actually IS *>* ... that particular one in the video being >
... and ¨garish¨ would be > 😊.... ~🩷
We could see that!
👍🏻😎 cool place 👍🏻
Google "Glas in lood aanbrengen thuis" and Bob's your uncle!
Liege is becoming pretty cool in my opinion
We thought it was pretty cool!
Stairs - I'm with Nate! 🤣🤣
Where’s your sense of adventure! 😂😂
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld ruclips.net/video/hOlfyO5F6f8/видео.htmlsi=Fd7sud8Ksn8-xCiJruclips.net/video/hOlfyO5F6f8/видео.htmlsi=Fd7sud8Ksn8-xCiJ me being crazy on a sand dune in Colorado... 🤣🤣
Amsterdam was edgy during mid- 19th-century .
After that began a period of renewed wealth that did not really dissapear...
😊😊
The most beautiful train station in the world is in antwerp
We need to check this out!
Uhm ??? You went to the car park near the Train Station and driving with a car to the City Center of Liege ??? Ugh ! At least You could've walked alongside the Meuse to the city center ! It takes about 20 minuts...
The town is called Luik in Dutch or Lütich in German, why you use the French name???? Originally that part of Belgium spoke German.
We used the English name… since we speak English in our videos. Thanks for checking it out! ✌️
As someone born and raised in Liège I have no idea what you're talking about. We inhabitants are proud French speakers. You might be mixing it up with our german-speaking Eupen neighbours but regardless of old history, the average Liège inhabitant struggles to form a single sentence in Dutch and we speak even less German.
@@nateandkatrinadotheworldthe English name happens to be the correct one, congrats on this very well-made video
Liege went trough a collapse of it's industry...like many US and Uk cities. Liege seems to be in nice conditions compared to many of these cities
It wasn’t as bad as people had told us it would be. Way nicer than inner city Detroit or Memphis.
I love your videos! When I visited Liège a few years ago (after a 2 hour boat ride from Maastricht) the city provided a free map which was so inaccurate that it was funny. Spend a lovely afternoon there. Jacques Brel made a depressing yet beautiful song ‘il neige sur Liège’ (it’s snowing over Liège) that fits the atmosphere (ruclips.net/video/dCX9n8jJiMc/видео.htmlsi=s1cotssPPCM7kSHB).
Thank you so much!!! We really appreciate the kind words.
Gonna check that song out!
Liège is the funniest city in Belgium , but you can hate it if you're dutch because it doesn't meet your dutch criteria .
It's the Walloon efficiency for you! 🤣If you've visited the Walloon life museum, I think the fact half of screens are broken is pretty much telling of everything about that lmao. Also maybe of the poverty aspect of Wallonia and therefore of its infrastructures, on a bit sadder note.
3,10€ thé waffel ?! Welcome in Liège ! Belgium 🎉🎉🎉🎉
une bonne maniere de sonder la meteo au littoral flamand.
I mean, Lîdje is totally correct pronunciation for Liège
Just not the French/English one XD
Staircase and some food doesnt seem like a good enough reason to go. Ive heard its pretty hairy at night with muggings and the like.
Welcome to liège bienvenue à liège
Welcome to Belgium 🇧🇪
Bienvenue en Belgique 🇧🇪
مرحبا بكم في لييج
مرحبا بكم في بلجيكا 🇧🇪 🇪🇺😁
Love Luik
It’s probably because of those waffles… 😜
I'm not fond of Liège meatballs. But I love eating rabbit.
Maybe not hate it. But when you go to Brugge just after , you realise that liege was not so nice
What is nice about Liege is not the city but the people and you did not meet any local , next time take time to talk to people they are the nicest in Belgium and in Europe imo! I spent amazing there , but I am French and speak the language.
We talk to lots of people in our vlogs, we just don't always put them in the video. Thanks for watching!
Welcome Liège morocco city in Belgium .... Greetings from a real european native ... Just disgusting we' re under islamic tsunami migration ....Bonjour à nos amis américains, Liège est 1 ville islamique .... Parole de liégeois ...
Ramon Lopez c'est pas un nom de migrant ?
@@jme104 Moi je me planque pas derrière 1 pseudo ..... Hein, abdul ou mahamed ?
@@ramonlopezdelhoulle3391Je suis liégeois et je crois tu es juste un xénophobe lambda.
En tant que Liégeoise, ce serait bien d'arrêter de parler en notre nom et de nous donner une mauvaise réputation. On n'est pas tous racistes et xénophobes, amicalement.
@@aurorebergen2779 Chère Aurore, étant moi-même issu de l'immigration par mon père, comprenez que je ne suis ni raciste ni xénophobe, amicalement.
Belgium is a developing country
Ouch… 🫠
A bit short.
*Wallonia is
@@kenpe1455 Says the hating fleming .
@@jme104 am I wrong though? By every objective metric Flanders is doing much better. Stop coping
well for one day, certainly it comes as "exotic", even "nice". But living here, between the fact that everything is grey, the dirtiness, pauperty, toxicomany, abnormal prices, grey people (unless they had one many beer, that seems to be the national sport there), well that is the reality. But thank god for these toursits, they just stay one to three days there.
Grey people? Seriously? Our city is known for having among the nicest people in Belgium. In fact walloons in general are more compared to Spaniards in terms of friendliness than to our Flemish neighbours. The average person in Liège will slow down while walking so they can greet you and hear your response back.
@@disco_depression Arrête un peu de sortir des stéréotypes que vous vous inventez vous-même cons de liégeois. Toi tu ne connais pas du tout les espagnols, je suis d'origine étrangère né ici et tout ce que j'ai connu dans cette ville de merde moche et puante, c'est le racisme la froideur des gens et l'ignorance crasse.
Come in 2025 and i will do a vistit of liège to you. You didn’t see the best places in the city.
This is how England looks like but England looks 100x worser
Liegistan
I wouldn't know what's so great about Liege apart from the station. Dinant and Namur are more interesting.
From a heritage point of view, Liège is extremely rich, thanks to its almost thousand-year history as a Principality (which, by the way, Dinant was part of). But I respect your opinion.
Liège est la plus grande ville et c’est la ville avec le plus de patrimoine classé de Wallonnie, elle possède 7 collégiales qui devrait d’ici peut être inscrites à l’Unesco, un palais des princes évêques, etc donc non définitivement Liège est plus intéressante d’un point de vue historique et quantitatif que Dînant et Namur qui sont aussi des belles villes mais pas du niveau de Liège
@@francoissnoeck In Liege you can still see the leftovers of the abandoned metal inbustry, which is quite depressing. I find it also more dirty than Namur or Dinant
@@wanneske1969 Yes, these blast furnaces are part of our history, when Liege was one of the places where industry was one of the most flourishing in Europe and fortunately some will be preserved; a museum project is currently being carried out. However, I would like to contradict the fact that you say that Dinant and Namur are more interesting than Liege; of course, these cities are worth visiting. But in no case can we omit the history and heritage importance of Liege. Of which, I remind you, Dinant was a good city in the principauté of Liege. All three cities are interesting to see.
@@wanneske1969 Of course, the abandoned factories in the valley will be largely destroyed to make way for other types of economic activities. That is why I would like to point out that it is good to preserve some elements of our industrial past which, believe it or not, can be exploited for tourist purposes.
I'm in shock the difference in clean streets vs the Netherlands. But also the big buildings, they could use a facade cleaning. Like the church. About 7-8 years ago it was bit better, (i mean in Bruges i came a lot) but i would not be surprised if there are rats in Liège. Sad, i love ❤ Belgium, it's not taking care of there infrastructure and precious buildings. 😢
I don’t know what you’re referring to, but the St. Paul’s cathedral was totally refurbished a few years ago.
I live in Amsterdam and we have lots of rats here!
Walonnia is a different country compared to Flanders. Cities in flanders are much cleaner
Vous racontez beaucoup de bêtises. 😅😅
while visiting liege city i have seen at multiple time the city hall workers urinating in public ...i was shocked .
lets move the EU parliament to Amsterdam
Cry about it.
Lol cope, Amsterdam is irrelevant.
"the city hall workers urinating in public" they are toilets in the city hall . Maybe they urinated before entering the city hall because they prefer doing it in outside ? LOL your nonsense is for all to see . People with half a brain can easily come to the same conclusion .
@@davgg9621 i only make money no time for crying some take shower in an airbus others got bad advises cheeeeeeers lol
@@kenpe1455 very relevant Hollande a more stable country more clean and have better sexy women ...oh i forget Holland invented the modern Capitalism
IMHO, the BIG letdown is Brussels.
For a major European city, it’s a disappointment. Chock full of diplomats, EU reps and NATO folk on expense accounts. Very good (very $$$$) restaurants. Just underwhelming.
Better bets in Belgium? Bruges. Antwerpen.
Love your videos. Keep the jazz music- it just fits.
Tot ziens! 👋
Gent !!
Dank je wel! We really enjoyed Bruges as well and Brussels isn’t so bad!
What about Ghent?
You should have stayed in the US. Europe isn't for you. There's too much culture, history, and gastronomy for you to appreciate. And the different languages? They're difficult for you to master.
Thanks for the advice… You are quite opinionated and we love that for you. ✌️
Also… EUROPE is not a country. 😜
Also…this particular video has over 410 likes and less than 10 dislikes… 97% positive. The good news for you here is that you are quite unique and VERY special.
@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Your response is a non sequitur. Who suggested that Europe was anything but a continent? SMH.
It was a joke based on many comments we get. 👍
The train station was beautiful. Those colors were not there initially. Now it looks like a circus. The town is dirty and uninteresting compared to other Belgium towns. Trafic is awful and parking terrible. If in the regium just visit Huy, Durbuy, Hasselt or Maastricht (NL) instead.
its not bad but loads of homeless around