A Techmoan Travelogue for Xmas '24
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Come into the sitting room, kids. Uncle Techmoan is showing his holiday slides!
Yes!
Tea, biscuits and a techmoan holiday video. Now the day has structure.
Nice!
Nice seeing you here, mono! Nothing like a good Technoan vid.
On Betamax
Mat, I just want to say a huge thank you for this video. It’s a lot of fun to just hang out with you outside of the scope of a typical video. Very much appreciate the time and energy this took to produce. I’m thankful for you too because it has allowed so many of us like-minded people to hang out together and share common interests and to learn. I hope you and your wife have a wonderful Christmas and a great new year as well!
I can only second this. Nice video.
There’s more stuff like this on Mat’s Patreon! Great perk.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Australia. Many thanks for keeping us amused and educated in 2024. Looking forward to more techmoan content in '25.
No belts were changed in the making of this video.
Maybe he brought more than one pair of trousers, then he'd be changing a belt.
After that steak ,I’d be at least loosening mine.
No MiniDisks either. I have to give only 9/10 just for the lack of MiniDisks.
but did feature a belt line diversion that changed his itinerary for the evening!
Imagine a belt buckle that conceals an actual cassete tape (mini?) Or two that hold secret stuff and music! 😂🎉
Even as a german I was never in Cologne before and now I watch my favourite british RUclipsr on his holiday there. This is so delightful.
Did he have fun?
I couldn't quite tell! lol
@@TornadosBadNauheim
Stimmt, hätte aber auch noch schlimmer kommen koennen zb Berlin.
He is also in Rotterdam Netherlands on de riverbaot.
You know Mat is a gentlemen when he kindly keeps the camera low and doesn't talk loudly in public. Hats off.
It's great that you were able to see a bit of the Netherlands! Next time you're in town, come by my studio to say hi.
The thing that surprised me the most about this video was the breakfast on the train. I had no idea they did that on UK domestic routes and it actually looked pretty decent!
The Dutch people are the best - I am Scottish and worked for a U.S. company with a subsidiary in Veldhoven - we had some great times.
What I noticed that you didn't realise that we still have catering on U.K. trains - it has certainly gone downhill to what it once was - Pullman service was the best anywhere , as an Engineer working in Sheffield I used to get the "Master Cutler" train to London in the late '70s which served a tremendous breakfast - sadly Sheffield has declined and with it the catering.
2 of my favorite you tubers! Potential for a urban sound collaboration??
Hey jason. Should have taken him on a bike ride trough utrecht!
Re: Breakfast : that’s far from universal; it depends on the operator and the route.
It would be nice to see train catering come back.
Great to see a bit of Appley Bridge and Wigan. Mat I enjoyed the video. It's nice to get out.
Have been waiting for this video ever since I read the news item about a British man causing a disturbance at Cologne's best K-Pop shop.
They didn't have Irene's solo debut in stock?
They did, but not in cassette.
not on minidisc either 😅
And someone _just_ walked out with the last Tefi 😀
There may be a wax roll in a drawer somewhere?
saying "thank you" to bus drivers is sooo beautiful. i learned this on a school trip to bath in 1995 and i do it since, whenever i have the opportunity.
"Cheers drive!" lol
I don't unless I use the front door to get out, which is never.
@@JDelwynn i TRY to use the front door, only which is officially supposed as an entrance door exclusively.
In the UK it's kind of the done thing - I don't think I've ever gotten off a bus without saying thanks - even those airport shuttle ones!
It's pretty customary in my town, and seems appropriate, given that (a) our buses are free to ride, and (b) you have to call out or signal when you want to be let off, or they may zip past the stop, if no one is waiting there.
Man shambles round Europe, strangely compelling. Thanks for sharing your trip, and bonus points for the travelogue muzak. Compliments of the season!
Highlight for me was the vibraphone based 70s lift music overlaying the holiday snaps. That's proper film-making that is.
"Yes kids, there was a time when FM radio stations played this stuff 24/7."
This trip is available at Fred's Travel shop just yards from this cinema.
I've got a feeling that it probably comes from the same Tefi cartridge as the famous Cuba Baion.
That clock tower playing on music at 32:48 is the Domtoren Carillion and is being played live on a giant, ancient keyboard. The Wintergatan (the marble machine guy) RUclips channel has a great video showing how it works and showing the one of the talented musicians responsible for playing it.
playing “Some Enchanted Evening “ from “South Pacific “.
To add to that: it just finished restoration, a few weeks prior it was still wrapped in construction scaffolding.
I was up in the Domtoren in the early 2000s (I met my Dutch wife in 2000, and she moved to the US in 2005 when we got married, so sometime between then. It's all a blur to me that time). My wife showed me much of the Netherlands back then, and I've been showing her the US ever since.
Doctor: "Mat, I'm afraid you won't be able to go on a plane ever again."
Mat: * proceeds to use every other mode of transportation conceivable *
That's actually pretty inspiring 🥰 Glad you had a nice vacation in Europe 🤗
Thank you for another year of top content, Mat. I wish you and your family all the best 🍀
Such beautiful shots of something so mundane. A train ride on your shoulders feels like a trip with a friend I never had.
Oh no! A near-hour long Techmoan on a Sunday when I should be getting ready to clear the garden.......... might have to watch this in sections!
I'm watching this while my neighbor is trying to work out how to get one of my trees out of their garden. Time for another beer.
Thanks so much for taking us along! This was so nice to watch.
I got a kick out of your remark on your co-travellers at 35:45.
Consider yourself lucky to not have travelled in the summer, otherwise we would have occupied your deck chair with a beach towel 😉
Best holiday wishes from a German!
P.S. and sorry for having to share our everyday railway experience.
Thank you for taking me along on your holiday. It was a wonderful trip, and probably the closest I will come to seeing those places in person. I enjoy all your videos, but this one was very special. Merry Christmas to you and your family and a Happy New Year to all!
My friend, you don't need to say that you "hope we enjoyed your videos this year." We did, and we are ever so grateful for your grade A content. Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year.
Museum of mechanical music , awesome
and fitting too!
Grandpa showing us his holliday videos. Nice.
The train always beats flying. So much more relaxed.
Not that I have travelled recently (2013), but I find air travel more relaxing and enjoy the time savings (I am from the USA and travel to Europe requires flying). However I do enjoy train travel and boat travel (river cruise) in Europe. I understand the limitations Techmoan has in regards to air travel.
This was really pleasant to watch. As someone living in a small town in Wisconsin, USA, seeing the infrastructure for moving people about in Europe was fascinating. Our passenger train system is almost non-existent, and most people only get from one place to another by car or plane.
I look forward to all of your videos, and wish I had the funds to support you financially. I am subscribed, and really grateful fo all I've learned from you! Merry Christmas, and hopes for a good year coming up!
almost being the key word, UP-N will even take you from (southern) Wisconsin to Chicago, they even got new train cars with seats that look better but are less comfortable.
plenty of buses and trains in chicago
@@酗 *"[I]n [C]hicago"* : There's plenty of reasons the US trains failed, some not obvious, from geography to government interference, and so on (there's a whole history of the lines for people to learn about if the like trains); however, I'd argue that the centralization into a hand-full of major cities is the blocking problem. The others can be overcome, but if everyone jamming themselves into those few cities leaving everywhere else as ghost-towns is not reversed then they'd server no function to be kept running. It's the same issue with shops and stores, etc.
To restate, they're speaking about statewide or even interstate in the context of traveling _Europe_ or even the UK as a whole. In the cities is not the "almost" being spoken of, that's essentially full existent there.
I also live in a small Wisconsin town. Barely any public transportation here until you get to Milwaukee and Chicago.
@酗 Then, take a quick bus to Millennium Park and grab the South Shore Line to fabulous South Bend, Indiana by way of Gary! Or head across to Union Station for several daily departures to St. Louis!
Yeah, I am from Europe and when I was on a business trip in the Toronto I thought I'll visit the relatives in the Quebec so I said I'll take the train. They were surprised and told me it is not a good idea. 😂
48 minutes of Techmoan is a wonderful Christmas gift! It'd probably be highly enjoyable even if it was about accounting. Merry Christmas, Mat!
I wonder how many of us said "bless you" at the same moment watching this. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for this video. Thanks to you, my wife and I have now discovered something that we will both be able to enjoy. Living in Ohio, USA, we have a large river aptly named the Ohio River that I just learned has cruise companies that offer this lovely style of adventure. We are already looking forward to making a go at it and I will always remember you as the chap that gave us the idea.
We just visited Cologne yesterday. If I’d have bumped into you I would have been star struck. I’d watch you present anything. You have a great style Matt.
I live just across the water from Liverpool and visit Manchester all the time and we’ve never bumped into Techmoan…. He’s there all the bloody time
As a 20 year old American, whos never left his own state for more than a day, seeing someone just walk around these places was honesty really refreshing, thanks for the video Mat, Happy Christmas
Please to travel abroad. I am Dutch and Colone is 2 hours drive or less depends how fast a dare to drive the Autobahn.
Save your money and travel. You'll love it. Especially Europe.
Sad, and escape now while you still can….
@@arjanvanraaij8440 Railway in Europe is quite good, so why not take the train and experience comfortable travel?
You are young is all. In time, as your income improves, you will find a way to travel and have places to go. From my late 20s through my 30s I flew at least once a year and put well over 200K miles on my vehicles. I really enjoyed my day trips on the weekends to any place I could get to under 4-5 hours. My last car trip on vacation was 3,000 miles for the round trip. Driving in a car with no work worries behind you is a wonderful experience!
I haven't got a clue why, but I enjoyed this Techmoan travel-vlog video. Might be because you seem to tend to keeping stuff real, no matter topic. A very Merry Christmas from Norway.
I think I'm exhausted just watching all of those people during your commutes, etc. I'm from the USA so I don't get to travel on trains very often, but that looked like it was enjoyable for the most part. Very interesting vacation, glad you enjoyed it. I love your channel and I'm looking forward to future videos. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Bruh techmoan out and about
I'm all in
I have never enjoyed a travel log before. I have had to sit through lots. They are usually so in-your-face outpouring enthusiasm for everything mundane so this was quite refreshing. I look forward to the next one!
The Amazing Race: Techmoan edition. Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. Moan.
Thanks. It's great to see a broadcast quality travel video that isn't, like most of the turn-off ones on UK tv these days, focussed on minor celebs exchanging mindless banter and massaging each other's egos.
I love the Eurostar. The fact that I can board a train basically on my doorstep (+/- 30 minutes) in London and arrive in France, Belgium or the Netherlands is still mindblowing to me. 😅
It was fantastically convenient when I was able to work in Europe. Still could if I was to lie at immigration I suppose, but no one asks me to work abroad anymore.
The EU would be a great thing to join 😊
@@g-r-a-e-m-e- We asked the panel and the panel said no. If I wasn't so bleeding broke nowadays I would rejoin on my own.
Do you see what they did there?
A unilateral declaration of affiliation may be possible one day if I can get ahead in the bank robbing business I may have to start soon.
Eurostar as a mode of transport? Absolutely yes (if I lived in London or the SE, which I don't, and until the HS1/HS2 link is built it's unlikely that I'd take it out of choice for the sake of convenience, but that's another matter). Eurostar as a company? Absolutely not. They have a monopoly on passenger train travel to the continent and they exploit that to its fullest. It's typically much cheaper to fly unless you need to travel at short notice (and even then sometimes...).
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I never left - other people left for me...
St Pancras is a gorgeous station. The layout and passenger management of platforms 1-4 for trains going north, especially when things go wrong, not so much.
So, when things go south instead of north? 😄
True, St Pancras looks fantastic when you arrive from Europe... I love it.
When leaving UK, the border control and especially the waiting area before boarding the Eurostars, is absolutely horrible on the other hand (smelly toilets, kilometers long queues to get a drink or grab some food and no place to sit). I have to say it's not better in Brussels midi either once you are past the security.
More travel videos please! I think your personal style and approach to the subject are a perfect fit for travel. You evaluate a train journey much like you would a new piece of personal audio kit, and that's actually refreshing. Thanks for sharing.
Loved this vlog of your holidays. My key points:
1:43 The obligatory bus driver thank you - A british staple
15:29 Wow :O
22:19 Those carpets must be a nightmare to clean!
31:47 Competitor for Dad sneeze of the year right there.
33:48 How much do you get paid an hour to do that?
47:16 Merry Christmas!🎄🎄🎅🎅
Would like to see more vlogs like this.
is thanking your bus driver really considered chiefly british? ive lived in new york most of my life and ive always just done that out of habit... maybe that's just the old york asserting itself, then
@plushifoxed I'm not sure, I suppose I've not travelled enough to see it elsewhere. Glad to hear NY bus drivers getting thw recognition they deserve.
Happens all the time in Japan, too. At least whenever I’ve used a bus in Osaka, anyway. A constant stream of it as you shuffle off in a queue.
This is my favourite channel. Hope you make videos years to come! Greetings from Finland.
Great video, and glad to see you treated yourself for Christmas!
I've had a wonderful time watching your content in 2024 - Thank You for all the time and effort you put in, and for your contagious enthusiasm!!
Take care and enjoy the festivities with your loved ones 😊
Cheers!
Thanks for this Mat. It's been a fun journey. Cheers to the new year!
Thanks, Mat! Was a fun video! Hope you enjoyed the Netherlands and you bought yourself some stroopwafels. :) Merry Christmas!
Stroopwafels are soooo good!! Much love from Australia
Merry Christmas, Matt. i'm glad to hear you enjoyed your trip. I enjoyed it,
I think there is an opening for 'no fly' travel documentaries. You made a good case for them. Very enjoyable. Have a good Christmas.
Looks lovely. Glad you're having a good time. My mum was German - such warm memories hearing the language again. Thanks!
Loved the journey. It felt very British, concentrating on the important things like Breakfast on the train & the type of adhesive used to hold the shampoo bottle to the wall 🙂 Thanks for sharing.
A nice video for the people who can't travel much. You definitely looked refreshed! And may everyone have a pleasant Christmas.
Thank you for letting us accompany you on your journey! I liked this video a lot! Merry Christmas to you as well!
Been watching you for years, just wanted to wish you happy holidays from America. 🇺🇸 This was a nice Travelogue and thanks for sharing with us !
As a German student, this was extra nice to see 😊 glad you're living your best life Mr Techmoan
I saw that building in Rotterdam and immediately thought 'Wasn't it the one that Jackie Chan slid down', and then you immediately confirmed it :D
Thank you very much, loved the video.
Hi Mat! Thanks for sharing your holiday videos with us. Merry Christmas!
when you said that you went on a trip, I thought to myself "imagine if he went to Germany". Then, seconds later, you revealed that you would be traveling to Cologne! Never thought I'd see a vlog of my home town on this channel. Would love to meet you and show you around the next time you're here.
Hoppy christmas and greetings from Germany, i always enjoy yours video
Hoppy 🐸 Christmas to you too from America
I'd heard nothing but good things about both river cruises in general and the Rhine River cruise specifically, and it's fantastic to know that you enjoyed your trip too :D it's great to see what's possible without planes! Thank you for sharing your holiday with us and hope you had a great Christmas and New Year season!
Living near Cologne, I can tell you, that on Nov, 22, a Cargotrain collided with a maintenance train so badly that rails needed to be replaced over the course of 1 kilometer. The aftermath still has an impact on long haul trains, even today, Dec, 8. But: in non-accident times german train are almost never punctual, thats the sad truth. ......Google is pronouncing Aachen the wrong, dutch(!) way, our german way is totally different. Thanks for the the effort anyway! 👍 May be next time, you take the Eurostar to Antwerp, then buy a domestic 10er card for regional trains for almost no money. It takes you around all of belgium. You might want to visit Antwerp, Gent, Bruges, Liege and don´t miss out on Maastricht (NL) and Aachen which has a very nice old town, dating back to Charlemagne and even the Romans.
I think we in Germany should give up on the whole train idea and try something else. I live down in the south and the only working trains are ÖBB (austria) ones.
@ I don’t want to give It Up, I like Germany to become Switzerland in rails related life
This is strange to hear, I lived in Germany in 2005-2008 and DB trains seemed very punctual in general. I had several tight connections of 5-7 minutes during long distance trips and almost always made them.
@ our former conservative government beginning with chancellorHelmut Kohl tried to privatise parts of the infrastructure and tried to weaken passenger rail and cargo rail for the good of trucking companies. This led to abominations like just in time where your storage facility isn’t on premise but in the lorry, rolling on the street. He also made sure that Deutsche Bahn went public and so needed to fulfil shareholders needs in place of the needs of the citizens. This led to serious lack of maintenance for over more of a decade and this is haunting us now.Deutsche Bahn is doomed but at the moment they act like a dead person who doesn’t know that he’s already dead. I really like travelling on a modern ICE train where you can get in in Cologne and then travel to the southern parts of the country via the high speed routes, experiencing buttersmooth comfort, way better than riding by car. If my assumption is right, that owning a car privately will not be financially feasible for most of the people in the next 10 years we badly need public infrastructure like Deutsche Bahn to work and work even better.
@@wemartin12 The Germany from 20 years ago is not the same as the one nowadays. Lazy symbolic instead of productive politics, cost cutting and mismanagement have taken over in general.
From here in Indiana USA, thank you and have a Merry Christmas!
Ah, the Draaiorgel.
Good old punchtape mechanical MIDI.
Playing a Sinterklaas (Saint Nicolas) song.
@@mankepoot9440 haha ja I also recognized "hoor de wind waait door de bomen" :)
Too bad they didn’t have Cuba Baion
Thanks Matt. Really enjoyed you taking us along on your journey. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Love the choice of easy listening style library music. Inspired.
Thanks for all your videos over the past year, really enjoyed the travelogue!
"Who Am I?" is a good one. A prime example of Jackie Chan's obsession with Mitsubishi.
I think it was probably more like Mitsubishi's obsession with Jackie Chan. They made him their spokesman for years and years.
From the Pajero rally car to other movies that feature an FTO or GTO (or a few of them) or a Lancer Evolution (forgot the movie title on that, liked that one!)
Please do more videos like this, interesting stuff, and has given me a new appreciation for air travel. Merry Christmas.
"Not going to rain today." Famous last words when near the coast! :D
This was just incredible! Thank you for sharing this, and I look forward to more videos like this!
Matt I've noticed a lot of Graffiti around the towns and railway cars Etc. Just like us here in the USA! I guess you will find that everywhere! Merry Christmas my friend and to your wife and family as well!
In my part of the UK there’s very little graffiti because kids can’t afford the paint.
It's got a lot worse recently.
"All very pleasant so far." With that Techmoan dry hint of surprise and dubiousness.
Thank you for taking us on this journey. I really enjoyed it. Living in Thailand I am unlikely to experience the same but it was interesting and entertaining. Merry Christmas to you and your wife. Look forward to watching your videos in the future. 👍
That was really nice, thanks for taking us along on your trip! I've always enjoyed the being "in transit" part of travelling, so this was right up my street/railway/tunnel/river.
Cheers Mat, have a peaceful christmas, and here's to whatever the new year brings.
quite weird watching Matt's video without him reviewing any tech, but it's surprisingly enjoyable. Merry Christmas
He does these kind of videos quite a lot for Patreons. They are always great.
The older I get, the more I really enjoy the slower forms of traveling; trains especially are a favorite. I have similar issues with my sinuses but lucky for me surgery fixed most of the problems. Happy holidays and enjoy the new year!
"I don't wanna be in Brussels"
I'm shocked! Shocked! ... Well, not that shocked.
I stayed one night in a hotel next to the Brussels Eurostar station after getting the train. Not the most pleasant area I have ever been in
Yeah it's pretty bad. At least when filming the train into Brussels North station he wasn't on the track that overlooks the red light district :)
Good filming, nice shots. Lots of smooth travellings. Great camera work
A rainy day in the Hoosier state. Perfect weather to watch Mat’s adventures on the continent! Well done!
Not the sort of thing I subscribe to this channel for, but I did enjoy it and would be happy to see more of this kind of content. ❤
I always love watching this kind of video as I am travel averse myself (due to motion sickness). I am also glad for your unique perspective and would like to hear more about your ear condition- that kind of thing is quite interesting.
"ooooh, a new Techmoan video!" I thought, "Oh, it's almost an hour of a holiday trip..." Oh well, Matt has given me many hours of entertainment over the years, I'll watch for a bit to help the algorithm, then bail... 45 mintues later: watching footage of bus interiors. Thanks, Matt have a good Chritmas yourself!
Thanks for the effort you put into the videos. look for them every weekend. Merry Christmas to you.
Thanks for sharing. You are always welcome to visit good old Germany. You have splendid holidays, enjoy your time with the family and let us altogether start into an interesting 2025!
and Merry Christmas to you... and a Happy New Year ...
I enjoy watching this video so much, it just really relaxes the mood!!
That’s quite a journey. I live in Bristol, I once got a Ryanair flight direct to Cologne for £6, it took less than an hour.
I have watched the whole video, it was a nice trip. I wish you a Merry Christmas as well!
Those train scenes reminded me how much Densha de Go I played this year thanks to you showing us the series and I ended up buying a lot of versions with different controllers.
Looks like a lovely way to spend some time off. Thank you for sharing, Happy Holidays!
I really like to watch the vlog ;) Happy holidays and merry Christmas!
How lovely! Thank you for taking us with you on your trip Mat.
Merry Christmas. I was hoping you were going to the Netherlands just because that's my home. But actually Cologne is a place I had a connection to years ago as I had a job there for about a year so I hope you enjoyed the place as much as I did when I was there. Coincidentally someone we know also went to Cologne from the UK recently but they came back less excited as people they were travelling with sadly were the victims of pickpockets. That's not especially a German problem but anyone travelling would be well advised to keep their valuables as safe stored away as possible.
Cologne has so many Christmas markets it is worth just staying for several nights in Cologne to go round them. And the salmon you showed being cooked on boards is absolutely delicious.
Why am I watching this? And more importantly, why do I enjoy it?
This was such a chill and cozy video. Been watching your stuff for years and it always puts me in a positive mood.
I'd have gone with 'Scanners' (1981) as my modern reference :)
That is a head explosion I dont believe has been beaten
@@natelax1367 They got close in an episode of Star Trek : TNG though.
(S01 E25 "Conspiracy")
Haha...before looking at the comments, I was thinking he could had used Scanners as reference.Then when I scrolled down to the first comment, there u wrote the same thing I was thinking, portland182 :D
Also the infamous one in Licence to Kill (1989)
Nice to have a video with the least amount of waffle. Just ambient sounds.
Thank you so much. This was a wonderful look at travel and being able to see things I probably will never see in person. Every week I look forward to your videos and have been watching for many years. Keep up the good work and Merry Christmas!
Total recalled reference enjoyed.
Thank you for sharing your trip with us, it was a great video.
Merry Christmas to you and your wife
Nothing says "welcome home" like a row of British Transport Police and a warning about bag thieves 😅
Yep, welcome back to the arse end of Europe 🤣
I am periodically horrified at references to crime in modern British cities, when I watch documentaries or listen to podcasts or such. It sounds so much worse than here. I thought you sent all your criminals down here to Australia!
I don't think they're about to win an award for best tourism promotion. Prepare to have your bag stolen despite all the police around.
"See it, say it, sort it" on a continuous loop.
Thanks for taking us with you on your holiday! Loved it, as with all your videos. Merry Christmas!
12:18 never have you sounded so northern and practical.
It's an odd feeling to see a video featuring your home town all of the sudden, and recognizing all your stops. Hope you enjoyed Cologne! :D
my favorite youtube channel
Never thought Techmoan would take me on a bus, train and boat adventure trip, so cool, interesting and funny. Thank you very much for this and all your other videos. I'm enjoying every single one. Have a merry Xmas and thanks again, greetings from 🇨🇭
This ended up as compelling viewing. What struck me though is all the constant background noise with people going about their business and traffic. Maybe subconsciously that is why I tend not to travel these days; I always seem to end up in a seat on the train with a feeble PA system and cannot make out the announcements. I'm so glad I did my grand tour of Europe 40 years ago when overtourism was not an issue.
Merry Christmas!