Omg, just randomly bumped into this video?? You visited antwerp, honestly there's sooooo much to see, eat and hear here, from what I've seen in the video you only touched the surface still, so may be worth returning one day! It's a lovely and complicated city ^^
@@noorvanderelst3473 Hey Noor! Thanks so much for watching and coming over to chat! 🥰🫶 Feel free to hang out any time you want. Yes we adored Antwerp. I’m sure there’s SO much more to see and do. That what makes travel so exciting. You can plan all you want and there’s still so much more to be excited about seeing next time 😊 I hope you have a fabulous weekend and much love from the boys 👨❤️💋👨
I've lived in Antwerp all my life, and I really love to see my city through the perspective of someone for whom all of this isn't just the daily regular commute :)) Central Station is definitely one of the most beautiful buildings I know in Antwerp and the Christmas market on Groenplaats is absolutely one of the things I always look forward to throughout the year. Nello and Patrasche is one of those stories that I regularly heard growing up as a little kid, the story always devastated me. The statue by the Cathedral of Our Lady is actually pretty recent! Or at least, I remember it not being there, and I'm not old, so that's my own personal deduction (I just looked it up: the statue was placed there in 2016, so I'm not really wrong, but the statue certainly isn't the newest thing either) Anyway, I loved your video and little outtakes :> Have a nice day/night!!
@@asterloriaux5220 Hey Aster! It’s so lovely to meet you! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to come say hi 🥰🫶 I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. We really loved our time in Antwerp and hope to visit again someday. The people were so friendly as well. Great vibes. Oh my gosh, that story about Nello and Patrasche 🥹🥲 I was so sad reading that. I was trying to understand the moral of the story but was having a hard time figuring it out. Feel free to come hang out any time. It’s always fun meeting new folks and sharing adventures. Have a beautiful week 👨❤️💋👨❤️
Saaaaaaame! LMAO. I always laugh the most when editing those bits. The next video has a doozy. Thanks for watching and leaving us a note, DJ. Love from the boys. 👨❤️💋👨
@@dirk2518 Hey Dirk! So lovely to meet you. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat. For whatever reason, Kimball and I don’t enjoy museums at this stage in our lives. We’ve tried visiting many and just can’t get into them. Which is really weird because we’re both artists and admire paintings and sculpture. We’ve stopped trying to understand why we don’t like them and hope they’ll strike our fancy at some point in the future. Please feel free to come hang out when we you want. Love chatting with folks here. Have a beautiful weekend 👨❤️💋👨
I somehow got suggested this video. Loved the visit to Antwerp but the planning part was so funny it made me drop a sub immediately because Videos on youtube are barely ever so pure anymore.
@@LustraGaming Hey! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video and really appreciate the sub 🥰🫶 Our videos are a bit quirky but it’s just us going about our day to day 😁 so we try to keep it real. Please feel free to come hang out anytime. I love meeting folks here and chatting. Have a wonderful weekend 👨❤️💋👨
@@LustraGaming Yay! I’m so glad you enjoy. I legit can’t help myself when I’m editing. All these things pop in my head and I can’t move on until they’re added 🤣
Love all the art and that you always find such cool shops. Thanks for sharing! I also appreciate the trash observation. We were prepared because of you two in Amsterdam. But let me warn you, if you come back to Portland to visit, you’ll be devastated by the trash!!
Oh my gosh, I’ve seen pictures. It was starting to get pretty bad before we left but our friends have been keeping us informed. Really so sad considering how immaculate everything was when we first moved there. Crazy how an entire city can change so quickly in that regard. But it will always be a beautiful city regardless. In our heaarrrtttts 🥰 Did you return from Amsterdam? If so, how was it?
The white boat building was my university and I used to see the yellow boat from our auditorium, at eye level. Also the big hand street art on the side of the wall was done by one of our only internationally famous actors, Matthias Schoenaers (look him up), I saw it being done right after the first lockdown from my window back in 2020. It was done for the national day (July 21st) and references both Antwerp's name myth and the colonial past of Congolese hands being cut off.
@@marlyd Hey! It’s so lovely to meet you! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat 🥰🫶 Sounds like you had a fairly stunning view at the university. 😲 And that’s so interesting about the hand sculpture as well. If you don’t mind me asking, what is it like actually living in Antwerp? I know it’s quite different visiting a place vs. the reality of living there. Hope you have a fabulous week and please feel free to come hang out any time. 👨❤️💋👨
Yeah, it’s apparently related to The Dog of Flanders. Funny enough, the story never gained wide appeal from the locals but was very popular in some Asian countries.
@@rogergreener9457 Roger that! 🤓 I’m curious as to why. Care to elaborate 😁 We really enjoyed our Christmas in Antwerp (even though we’re not fans of wind)..but the history and beauty were astounding.
The building you visited @ 3:24 once belonged to a rich merchant Johan Alexander van Susteren, who started the construction in 1745, unfortunately he never saw his palace completely finished because he died in 1764. Then it was sold to Jonkheer Johannes de Fraula, then to Count Jean Alexandre Roose de Baisy and his wife Marie Anne Josephe van de Werve. Their daughter, Caroline Marie Josephe, married to Count Charles Francois de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, who inherited the building in 1798. After the death of her husband, she sold the building in 1812 to Napoleon Bonaparte, later it came into the hands of William I of the Netherlands, the Belgian royal family and is now owned by the Flemish government. So the building has quite a history.
@@walterverbeeck6929 OH MY GAWD! That’s quite the history for a building. Why do I get the feeling this type of thing happened a lot over time and all over the world? Thanks so much for taking the time to share that! 🫶🥰🫶🥰🫶🥰
Hey Erik! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat 🥰 I immediately had to look at your profile pic because I saw your top hat and the look is fabulous 👨❤️💋👨 How are the coastal cities in Belgium? We haven’t been yet.
Never thought about the giant hand to be sth tourists even look at. Also that breakfast was ridiculously small for how much it cost. I would not have gone there as a local 😅 I saw the Nello and Patrasche film a bunch of times as a kid and cried my eyes out each time.
@@marlyd OMG there’s a film for Nello and Patrasche?! I can’t decide if I want to watch it or not. 🧐🥲 Oh my gawd, we’d never go back to that brunch place. 🤣 So much money, so little satisfaction. Hope you’re doing well and have a fabulous weekend 👨❤️💋👨
They had a chocolate sculpture of a topless man so we were in regardless lol. Plus the operation is run by father and son and the son was easy to look at. Are we shallow? When we want to be, yes.
@@RockyandKimball I noticed, no shame - kinda works similar here, but with sinkhole depths. I semi understand your theory of mind. The sculpting with chocolate is a different thing than the more commercial chocolates. But if you are talented at clay sculping, it has many similarities. I've worked at a chocolatier for about 6 months or so, just the non fancy stuff. There was this one guy, that made sculptures, which is not exactly the same as making the bonbons, etc. But very interesting, chocolate needs to be at certain temperatures for this to work, so does the room you are working in. Stuff like that.
So by now you know I live in Antwerpen. And your visiting schedule was on par! The station , the Meir, The Chocolate Line shop, The Museum and even the marriage proposal balcony! Still I have some cards up my sleeve to show to you 2! Don't forget! You will enjoy it! And you fooled me! I thought : finally 2 American guys that will not just eat trash food! But well ... I can still educate you 2 on the topic of really good and tasty food! The Mooy coffee/ lunch/breakfast place is a scam. Should be avoided !
Yes I feel like we didn’t do a great job with food in Antwerp. There were a few good places but also some not great. We look forward to another trip to Antwerp in the future. 😁
In 2009 they did a flashmob for the 'Sound of Music - Central Station Antwerp' on the midcourt and stairs where you both were. It got 41 milj. views. I'm wondering if you knew that, when walking there, you would have done a little flashmob yourself cause I can never resist when I walk there "Sol Do La Fa Mi Do Re ..." people sometimes stare but ey, I don't live in the City, they don't know me.
@@channyh.221B Hey Chaney! It’s so nice to meet you! Thanks for watching and coming over to chat 🥰🫶 We had NO clue about that. That would be so fun to see a flash mob. And you can bet your butt I’d be dancing down those stairs. Kimball would watch from a distance pretending he didn’t know me 🤣 Thanks for letting us know ❤️😎 Hope you have a fabulous week. Feel free to come hang out anytime 👨❤️💋👨
The chocolates looked so good and I’m really glad you didn’t push Kimball into the water feature with your big stick 😆But why did Nello and Patrasche have to die ? I may never get over it 😢😢😢
I seriously cried little tears. 😭 Can you believe the next video is the last of our December trip? I CAN! I feel like I’ve been living in the past since January lmao. As always, love from the boys 👨❤️💋👨🧡💖
In case anyone wonders: at 17:00 Robot Dreams is a really cute Oscar nominated movie about a dog who lives in New York. Because he's lonely, he buys a robot and they quickly become friends. And then other stuff happens, but I don't want to spoil it. It's suitable for children and adults (it has no dialogue, so anyone can follow the story). You will laugh, you will cry. The dog doesn't die at the end (little spoiler there).
On that same trip that I visited The Netherlands, my friends took me to Antwerp. Honestly, I don't remember much about the city. I do remember that it was September, and there were no Christmas carolers.
Do you remember if the large statue of the guy throwing the severed hand was running? Apparently the water gushes out of the giant’s neck where his head was cut off and from the severed hand, I believe. Fun!!!
Yes, they do a good job with trash collection, sadly they have no budget left over to repair their roads... As for Lake Como, I prefer Lugano, just nicer people, I stayed in Morcote.
@@RockyandKimballForgot something, since sailing is one of the hobbies I tend to enjoy Gardasee or in Italian Lago di Garda, when wind direction is okay, is a joy. It pleasant enough for wind or kitesurfing, but again it is one of those 'rich' places I generally ignore. It is that what normally would prevent me visiting Garda, but when it blows, it is glorious.
14:29 Haha funny you say this, as a citizen of Antwerp I don’t agree because if you go to De Meir you’ll see all sorts of trash roaming the ground. Not to mention that there’s piss from the homeless people everywhere. At Het Steen, I’ve never seen those trash cans empty, all the trash is just piled up next to them. In the city centre it is pretty common for the cars to stop for you, but once you venture out of the centre they’ll be quite rude. This is in no way hate, just the perspective of a citizen.
@@aikoyoutube4930 Hey Aiko! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat as well 🥰🫶 That’s so interesting about the trash. What a bummer! 🥲 Yes, from what we saw everything appeared quite clean. I think we were also comparing it to Amsterdam as we had recently visited 😂 If you don’t mind me asking, how is life in Antwerp? Do you enjoy it? We found it to be stunning, but things are always a bit different when you’re just visiting as a tourist. Hope you’re having a wonderful week so far 👨❤️💋👨
Huh? That are the rules with zebra crossings? 14:23 I understand rules seem to interfer with the land of the free mentality. Don't tell me what to do. hahaha In all sincerity we have less of a car culture here in Europe, our cars are even designed differently to have less fatal injuries when hitting a pedestrian, and stuff like that. Compared to the USA.
In Amsterdam you really have to start actively crossing the street for cars to reluctantly stop for you at a zebra crossing. They don't have no time for those pesky pedestrians!! Like, they won't actively run you over, but if you're hesitant, they won't stop and wait for you to begin crossing the road. It really differs country to country and even city to city how well drivers adhere to those rules.
@@MartijnPennings Tourists, both on the sidewalk and street, and behind the wheels of cars. Would be a reasoning for this in my opinion. It's not like that in the entire Netherlands. And similar: In the Netherlands a car also has to stop when you are not crossing at a zebra, and the zebra is like 10 meters from where you are crossing. In the Netherlands you don't have to wait for a green light when crossing on foot, if the street is safe you can cross. But crossing infront of a car when the light is also red, is illegal.
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Omg, just randomly bumped into this video?? You visited antwerp, honestly there's sooooo much to see, eat and hear here, from what I've seen in the video you only touched the surface still, so may be worth returning one day! It's a lovely and complicated city ^^
@@noorvanderelst3473 Hey Noor! Thanks so much for watching and coming over to chat! 🥰🫶
Feel free to hang out any time you want.
Yes we adored Antwerp. I’m sure there’s SO much more to see and do. That what makes travel so exciting. You can plan all you want and there’s still so much more to be excited about seeing next time 😊
I hope you have a fabulous weekend and much love from the boys 👨❤️💋👨
I've lived in Antwerp all my life, and I really love to see my city through the perspective of someone for whom all of this isn't just the daily regular commute :)) Central Station is definitely one of the most beautiful buildings I know in Antwerp and the Christmas market on Groenplaats is absolutely one of the things I always look forward to throughout the year.
Nello and Patrasche is one of those stories that I regularly heard growing up as a little kid, the story always devastated me. The statue by the Cathedral of Our Lady is actually pretty recent! Or at least, I remember it not being there, and I'm not old, so that's my own personal deduction (I just looked it up: the statue was placed there in 2016, so I'm not really wrong, but the statue certainly isn't the newest thing either)
Anyway, I loved your video and little outtakes :> Have a nice day/night!!
@@asterloriaux5220 Hey Aster! It’s so lovely to meet you! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to come say hi 🥰🫶
I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. We really loved our time in Antwerp and hope to visit again someday. The people were so friendly as well. Great vibes.
Oh my gosh, that story about Nello and Patrasche 🥹🥲 I was so sad reading that. I was trying to understand the moral of the story but was having a hard time figuring it out.
Feel free to come hang out any time. It’s always fun meeting new folks and sharing adventures. Have a beautiful week 👨❤️💋👨❤️
I love the Kimball behind the scenes stuff, like his day planning 😊
Saaaaaaame! LMAO. I always laugh the most when editing those bits. The next video has a doozy.
Thanks for watching and leaving us a note, DJ. Love from the boys. 👨❤️💋👨
You should have visited the museum. One of the most beautiful of Belgium
@@dirk2518 Hey Dirk! So lovely to meet you. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat.
For whatever reason, Kimball and I don’t enjoy museums at this stage in our lives. We’ve tried visiting many and just can’t get into them. Which is really weird because we’re both artists and admire paintings and sculpture. We’ve stopped trying to understand why we don’t like them and hope they’ll strike our fancy at some point in the future.
Please feel free to come hang out when we you want. Love chatting with folks here. Have a beautiful weekend 👨❤️💋👨
I somehow got suggested this video. Loved the visit to Antwerp but the planning part was so funny it made me drop a sub immediately because
Videos on youtube are barely ever so pure anymore.
@@LustraGaming Hey! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat! I’m so glad you enjoyed the video and really appreciate the sub 🥰🫶
Our videos are a bit quirky but it’s just us going about our day to day 😁 so we try to keep it real.
Please feel free to come hang out anytime. I love meeting folks here and chatting.
Have a wonderful weekend 👨❤️💋👨
@RockyandKimball it's the quirky that made me hit the button. The effects and the soundeffects make the videos so much more entertaining
@@LustraGaming Yay! I’m so glad you enjoy. I legit can’t help myself when I’m editing. All these things pop in my head and I can’t move on until they’re added 🤣
Love all the art and that you always find such cool shops. Thanks for sharing! I also appreciate the trash observation. We were prepared because of you two in Amsterdam. But let me warn you, if you come back to Portland to visit, you’ll be devastated by the trash!!
Oh my gosh, I’ve seen pictures. It was starting to get pretty bad before we left but our friends have been keeping us informed. Really so sad considering how immaculate everything was when we first moved there. Crazy how an entire city can change so quickly in that regard. But it will always be a beautiful city regardless. In our heaarrrtttts 🥰
Did you return from Amsterdam? If so, how was it?
@@RockyandKimball We loved Amsterdam so much. Had the best time and even got to experience some sunshine! 🌞
@@WavesofStef Yay! So happy to hear that ^_^
Have an amazing week ahead 👨❤️💋👨
you'll see trash.. but we're not Rome or Napoli XD
👍 Nice planning Kimball, like a pro.
Lmao, Kimball is happy you approve 😎
We’ll see if you approve of Kimball morning energy case study 3 next week.
@@RockyandKimball We'll see, have a nice week
loved this video and subscribed!!
Thanks so much, Jonathan! Welcome to the craziness. 😇😁
Hope you have a beautiful week ahead.
The white boat building was my university and I used to see the yellow boat from our auditorium, at eye level.
Also the big hand street art on the side of the wall was done by one of our only internationally famous actors, Matthias Schoenaers (look him up), I saw it being done right after the first lockdown from my window back in 2020. It was done for the national day (July 21st) and references both Antwerp's name myth and the colonial past of Congolese hands being cut off.
@@marlyd Hey! It’s so lovely to meet you! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat 🥰🫶
Sounds like you had a fairly stunning view at the university. 😲 And that’s so interesting about the hand sculpture as well.
If you don’t mind me asking, what is it like actually living in Antwerp? I know it’s quite different visiting a place vs. the reality of living there.
Hope you have a fabulous week and please feel free to come hang out any time. 👨❤️💋👨
Nello & Patrasche, didn't know about it. Interesting, gives off little matchbox girl & the happy Prince vibes, dark endings.
Yeah, it’s apparently related to The Dog of Flanders. Funny enough, the story never gained wide appeal from the locals but was very popular in some Asian countries.
@@RockyandKimball Interesting, stuff for me to dig into; dog of fladers? Never took notice of something like that.
My favorite city to see you two at.
@@rogergreener9457 Roger that! 🤓
I’m curious as to why. Care to elaborate 😁
We really enjoyed our Christmas in Antwerp (even though we’re not fans of wind)..but the history and beauty were astounding.
The building you visited @ 3:24 once belonged to a rich merchant Johan Alexander van Susteren, who started the construction in 1745, unfortunately he never saw his palace completely finished because he died in 1764.
Then it was sold to Jonkheer Johannes de Fraula, then to Count Jean Alexandre Roose de Baisy and his wife Marie Anne Josephe van de Werve.
Their daughter, Caroline Marie Josephe, married to Count Charles Francois de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, who inherited the building in 1798.
After the death of her husband, she sold the building in 1812 to Napoleon Bonaparte, later it came into the hands of William I of the Netherlands, the Belgian royal family and is now owned by the Flemish government.
So the building has quite a history.
@@walterverbeeck6929 OH MY GAWD! That’s quite the history for a building. Why do I get the feeling this type of thing happened a lot over time and all over the world?
Thanks so much for taking the time to share that! 🫶🥰🫶🥰🫶🥰
love you guys Antwerp is my old city i life now at the Belgian coast
Hey Erik! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat 🥰
I immediately had to look at your profile pic because I saw your top hat and the look is fabulous 👨❤️💋👨
How are the coastal cities in Belgium? We haven’t been yet.
@@RockyandKimball they are fun and where i life Bredene near Oostende has the only nude beach in Belgium
@@erikbehaeghel oh la la! We drove by it but didn’t know about the nude beach. 🏖️ Maybe next time we’ll see all the sites! 😬
Never thought about the giant hand to be sth tourists even look at. Also that breakfast was ridiculously small for how much it cost. I would not have gone there as a local 😅
I saw the Nello and Patrasche film a bunch of times as a kid and cried my eyes out each time.
@@marlyd OMG there’s a film for Nello and Patrasche?! I can’t decide if I want to watch it or not. 🧐🥲
Oh my gawd, we’d never go back to that brunch place. 🤣 So much money, so little satisfaction.
Hope you’re doing well and have a fabulous weekend 👨❤️💋👨
The Chocloate Line, got the attention of my partner, referring to it as a Desney-esk chocolate shop.
They had a chocolate sculpture of a topless man so we were in regardless lol. Plus the operation is run by father and son and the son was easy to look at. Are we shallow? When we want to be, yes.
@@RockyandKimball I noticed, no shame - kinda works similar here, but with sinkhole depths.
I semi understand your theory of mind.
The sculpting with chocolate is a different thing than the more commercial chocolates. But if you are talented at clay sculping, it has many similarities.
I've worked at a chocolatier for about 6 months or so, just the non fancy stuff. There was this one guy, that made sculptures, which is not exactly the same as making the bonbons, etc. But very interesting, chocolate needs to be at certain temperatures for this to work, so does the room you are working in. Stuff like that.
So by now you know I live in Antwerpen. And your visiting schedule was on par! The station , the Meir, The Chocolate Line shop, The Museum and even the marriage proposal balcony! Still I have some cards up my sleeve to show to you 2! Don't forget! You will enjoy it! And you fooled me! I thought : finally 2 American guys that will not just eat trash food! But well ... I can still educate you 2 on the topic of really good and tasty food! The Mooy coffee/ lunch/breakfast place is a scam. Should be avoided !
Yes I feel like we didn’t do a great job with food in Antwerp. There were a few good places but also some not great.
We look forward to another trip to Antwerp in the future. 😁
In 2009 they did a flashmob for the 'Sound of Music - Central Station Antwerp' on the midcourt and stairs where you both were. It got 41 milj. views. I'm wondering if you knew that, when walking there, you would have done a little flashmob yourself cause I can never resist when I walk there "Sol Do La Fa Mi Do Re ..." people sometimes stare but ey, I don't live in the City, they don't know me.
@@channyh.221B Hey Chaney! It’s so nice to meet you! Thanks for watching and coming over to chat 🥰🫶
We had NO clue about that. That would be so fun to see a flash mob. And you can bet your butt I’d be dancing down those stairs. Kimball would watch from a distance pretending he didn’t know me 🤣
Thanks for letting us know ❤️😎
Hope you have a fabulous week. Feel free to come hang out anytime 👨❤️💋👨
The chocolates looked so good and I’m really glad you didn’t push Kimball into the water feature with your big stick 😆But why did Nello and Patrasche have to die ? I may never get over it 😢😢😢
I seriously cried little tears. 😭
Can you believe the next video is the last of our December trip? I CAN! I feel like I’ve been living in the past since January lmao.
As always, love from the boys 👨❤️💋👨🧡💖
@@RockyandKimball 😘😘
Loved it!... who doesn't dream of Belgium chokolate!!!
Zactly! It truly is Devine 👨❤️💋👨
In case anyone wonders: at 17:00 Robot Dreams is a really cute Oscar nominated movie about a dog who lives in New York. Because he's lonely, he buys a robot and they quickly become friends. And then other stuff happens, but I don't want to spoil it. It's suitable for children and adults (it has no dialogue, so anyone can follow the story). You will laugh, you will cry. The dog doesn't die at the end (little spoiler there).
Okay amazing! We’ll definitely check it out. I really want to see it 🥰
Thanks so much for the recommendation 👨❤️💋👨
@@RockyandKimball it's set in New York in the 80's and it's got so many incredibly funny and recognizable details. I'm sure you'll love it!
On that same trip that I visited The Netherlands, my friends took me to Antwerp. Honestly, I don't remember much about the city. I do remember that it was September, and there were no Christmas carolers.
Do you remember if the large statue of the guy throwing the severed hand was running? Apparently the water gushes out of the giant’s neck where his head was cut off and from the severed hand, I believe. Fun!!!
@@RockyandKimball I do remember the statue and my Dutch friend telling me the story behind it.
Yes, they do a good job with trash collection, sadly they have no budget left over to repair their roads...
As for Lake Como, I prefer Lugano, just nicer people, I stayed in Morcote.
Oh, we’re going to look up Lugano! Thanks for the tip 😎
Hope you’ve been well, Paul 👨❤️💋👨
@@RockyandKimballForgot something, since sailing is one of the hobbies I tend to enjoy Gardasee or in Italian Lago di Garda, when wind direction is okay, is a joy. It pleasant enough for wind or kitesurfing, but again it is one of those 'rich' places I generally ignore. It is that what normally would prevent me visiting Garda, but when it blows, it is glorious.
14:29 Haha funny you say this, as a citizen of Antwerp I don’t agree because if you go to De Meir you’ll see all sorts of trash roaming the ground. Not to mention that there’s piss from the homeless people everywhere. At Het Steen, I’ve never seen those trash cans empty, all the trash is just piled up next to them. In the city centre it is pretty common for the cars to stop for you, but once you venture out of the centre they’ll be quite rude.
This is in no way hate, just the perspective of a citizen.
@@aikoyoutube4930 Hey Aiko! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to chat as well 🥰🫶
That’s so interesting about the trash. What a bummer! 🥲 Yes, from what we saw everything appeared quite clean. I think we were also comparing it to Amsterdam as we had recently visited 😂
If you don’t mind me asking, how is life in Antwerp? Do you enjoy it?
We found it to be stunning, but things are always a bit different when you’re just visiting as a tourist.
Hope you’re having a wonderful week so far 👨❤️💋👨
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We see your ❤️ and raise you a 💖💕
14:02 Correct, de neus = the nose.... see English and Dutch ain't that much different ^o^
Okay, that’s what I thought! Thanks for confirming 😁
@@RockyandKimball If you've done right, you've done right. Positive re-enforcement.. just telling it as it is.
Back and forth, 6 to 12. Lol
@@donaldhatfield84 I’m SO glad someone appreciated that 🥰😘👨❤️💋👨
Huh? That are the rules with zebra crossings? 14:23
I understand rules seem to interfer with the land of the free mentality. Don't tell me what to do. hahaha
In all sincerity we have less of a car culture here in Europe, our cars are even designed differently to have less fatal injuries when hitting a pedestrian, and stuff like that. Compared to the USA.
In Amsterdam you really have to start actively crossing the street for cars to reluctantly stop for you at a zebra crossing. They don't have no time for those pesky pedestrians!! Like, they won't actively run you over, but if you're hesitant, they won't stop and wait for you to begin crossing the road. It really differs country to country and even city to city how well drivers adhere to those rules.
@@MartijnPennings Tourists, both on the sidewalk and street, and behind the wheels of cars. Would be a reasoning for this in my opinion. It's not like that in the entire Netherlands.
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In the Netherlands a car also has to stop when you are not crossing at a zebra, and the zebra is like 10 meters from where you are crossing.
In the Netherlands you don't have to wait for a green light when crossing on foot, if the street is safe you can cross. But crossing infront of a car when the light is also red, is illegal.