Baarle-Hertog? Prora? Urk? Replying To Your Questions! | 50,000 Subscriber Special
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- A ridiculous number of people discovered this channel last month and frankly it's about time I answered the questions you've all been asking...
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Just a little insane how it has taken off like this, must admit i'm one of those new subs, really enjoy the off beat humour and interesting places
Like a retired u-boat sailor, I subbed a while ago.
Hahahahahahahahahaha............ still laughing hahahahahahahaha!
I love this comment so much xD
Dad joke. I will steal it.
Like a doughy baton, I subbed too.
😠
Cant wait for your 100k special next month!
I think you mean next week 😂
Alas, we seem to have stalled at 75k...
Simple! Just make another Dutch related video or two. Haha
Now at 158k!
@@kmw4359 Now at 206K
As both a follower of Tom Scott and yours is like to say that I think just because someone else has done a video on it shouldn't mean that you feel you can't. You both bring different experiences and communication styles that it would be unique enough I think...
That said, a TTT/TS Collab would be epic.
I flew from Moscow to Köln and then to Wuppertal , only because of your video and was surprised how they have NOTHING to attract tourists to this marvelous work of engineering. So I want to thank you for showing the world that such beauty exists.
Best part "I have come to this absolutely beautiful place, to not see the beauty but rather closely examine this concrete" :P
ruclips.net/video/mcgMEF3rycA/видео.html 😉
Spontaneous mountain climbing?! You're a madman! We need time to train, acclimatise to the altitude, etc!
Congrats on the sub boost btw, I remember watching two of your videos a few days apart and went from "Why isn't this guy better known" to "Hang on, isn't this the guy who wasn't well known?"
Steve Evans touch your toes twice, deep breath and...oh you’re at the peak already 😂
Exactly me, saw one of his older vids and he had 1k subs, few days later he was big out of nowhere
Out of all of the places in Tallinn, you visited the Linnahall. I really should have seen that one comming!
The building has been abandoned since the end of the Soviet occupation of Estonia, and although its fallen deep into neglect, it is designated as a cultural landmark, wich means, that it is under state protection. While this has kept the building standing, it is also the main problem, that the building is facing, because noone has been able to come up with a proper way to use the old building.
These days, it is known as a decrepid place, that the city cant come up with a use for, and the only reason people visit it, is to look at the sea.
If you want to see a similair building, wich is not fallen into disrepair, and not located on the coast, then you should check out the Estonian National Library, wich is quite an interesting structure to behold from inside and outside.
Thank you for visiting Estonia! Aitäh, et külastasid Eestit!
I'm looking forward to future videos, and hope to see you return to Estonia some day!
Humble suggestion: turn it into an exhibit on the Soviet occupation.
@@CaptHollister There's already a museum for that, the Vabamu. Also multiple smaller/more specialised museums and exhibitions.
There's just no demand for that, and I doubt that the misistry of culture would support such an undertaking. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Rafael Carl Floehr make it a hotel, restaurant, convention center
Just please do not demolish this unique building. There is a lot unnecessary hate to very unique and interesting old buildings in Baltic countries just because they were built during Soviet times. We have demolished and are still demolishing a lot of this historical heritage that will be lost forever just because many patriotic locals hate Soviet occupation past and want to express their feelings, anger and dissatisfaction at innocent objects. They think this will make them happy, but history shows, that destruction rarely leads to positive outcomes and future generations usually miss those relics from the past and despise those who destroyed them. People shallowly think old buildings make us look outdated, poor or part of Russia. This irreplaceable architecture is part of our history and we cannot avoid that. We can try to rewrite or embrace it. Greetings from Lithuania. :)
@@ligametis Estonia won't take it down. Tallinn would be weird without it.
You don't have any idea how many people you have inspired. Thank you tim
Congratulations Tim Traveller on 62,000 subscribers. Travel the world at your own pace. That saying goes for your content also. Cheers.
Been watching since damn near the beginning. You even answered one of my questions in the 1000 sub special. I just wanted to touch back in and let you know that I am still watching, and I am still enjoying the content. Inspiring me to get out and see the world myself!
This video was uploaded an hour ago and he's at 62K already.
Just one month ago, he is celebrating his 1000 sub. RUclips algorithm is fascinating sometimes
I think you’ve been granted fame by the algorithms. However, your videos are actually insanely interesting and worth watching. I think I subscribed at like 2,000. I saw your channel a week later and was amazed
No: because of Tom Scott.... Then: Something you might not have known. :-)
I asked someone a met:
-You're from Holland, right?!
-Yes
-North or South Holland?
-Aha, you know the difference between Holland and the Netherlands!
I live in Urk, i hope i can come!
Vissie van de fant??
Please dress up as a local Sherpa ...
Still EU, you don´t need a visa yet. :)
Will you bring your sister and the children you conceived together?
Poor u.
Is that the tune to Dad's army behind the Prora section....
Good choice
Congrats on 50k Tim! Maybe not the most interesting of places, but given you did a video on the Beckton Alp, it's worth a shot me mentioning it. Samphire Hoe is a little bit of land on the coast near Dover. It is only accessible by tunnel or precarious steps and was created from all the chalk that was dug from the Channel Tunnel. It's got quite a varied railway history, from the line by Shakespeare Cliff through all the Channel Tunnels including the current one. There's even a place you can see the old 1800s channel tunnel bore near it but not sure how safe it is now (there are videos exploring that on RUclips). It'd be interesting to see a video about Samphire Hoe itself (even worth going as it's a lovely nature reserve).
Congrats on the success! Well earned - love the dry humor and great travel content.
Well done on the subscriber numbers. Keep up the nice light hearted approach to places not always first thought of to visit.
62.200 weeeeh! 100.000 here we come! I love your stuff! And i personally don't mind if you make a video about a place some other dude has visited before and made a video about it. I like *your* view on things. The way you do your videos and present the places and facts is something special.
ehm, 62200 that was 15 min ago It's now 65000, 70000, 85000, 90000 depending on when you read this comment 😁
I'm behind the times watching the 50K special when the current count is 319K subscribers, but all of these accounts are quite interesting. I see this was a historical landmark for the channel in another aspect when you progressed to image stabilization!
Another newbie here, subbed because the algorithm put the arduous trek up Luxembourg's tallest mountain in my feed, I went like "lol is this a joke" for a few days and it just stayed in my feed so I had to click it, and now I can't click away
Okay, I've finally looked up the Baarle-Hertog video by that Tom Scott guy you keep mentioning, and while his discussion of nation states was interesting, I think you definitely have something still to add! Not only your own sense of humour, but also more of a sense of place - I've been to Baarle and part of the fun is definitely walking around along borders and in search of new ones, plus many parts of the village are really pretty, and you don't really get that from Tom Scott's video!
If you ever go to Baarle Hertog, be sure to follow the bike trail on the former railroad to the abandoned customs railroad station at the main Dutch-Belgian border.
I’m Cypriot and I can tell you the Dhekelia Cyprus Border is really disappointing. Basically, the border isn’t even marked and the “Sovereign Base Areas” aren’t really part of the UK. De Facto it is a part of Cyprus where the UK can nist set up bases. I’ve been to Dhekelia many times as has every tourist, because you need to go through it to reach Protaras and Ayia Napa, the two most popular beach resorts. The only birder marking is a sign which says “Welcome to Dhekelia.” Of course, it’s fascinating for me, a Cypriot, to go there, because I can see all the enclaves and exclaves, but noone else can.
You are easily my favourite RUclipsr at the moment, congrats!
Congratulations! I actually visited Tallin this summer, it felt great recognizing this place lol
We actually stumbled upon the Linnahall and were absolutely perplexed at the site for quite a while.
Honest work pays off. If you’re really good, you’ll get noticed someday. Keep up the amazing videos!
Looking forward to the 100K New Year's Day Special.......I think this channel will get there by then.
Keep up the good work. I honestly can't remember how I came across it, probably some random YT suggestion but I'm glad I did. Keep up the good work
A plethora of TV theme tunes!
Blockbusters, Neighbours, Dad's Army, QI, Family Fortunes...
I hadn't even noticed the spike in subscribers... I haven't been subbed THAT long. and back then it was like 200. Huge congrats! and please don't change too much :)
tim, long time sub, and my only suggestion is: MORE TRAINS. okay, thanks for all you do.
A ridiculous number of people discovered this channel because your channel is so darn good!
Tim, you are a treasure, keep up the good work & continue to not disappear up your own bottom.
Man, your channel is amazing. Keep it going!
Suggestion: Have you ever climbed Cribarth (the Sleeping Giant) above Abercraf, Wales? Whole mountainside was accidentally quarried into the profile of a reclining man by a Scottish nutter by the name of Christie in the search for "rottenstone". The giant even has a "necklace" in the form of an oversized wall Christie had built to stop his quarrying rival sneaking his stone down that side of the mountain.
good show - and you deserve SO many more followers
sorry I'm going to miss your mountain-climb at end of Nov in NL ;)
@@yourlocalfruitbat6587 it's on a saturday...
@@zhuli7251 Saturday is still widely seen as a workday in a lot of places
I’d love to, but it’s not cheap to fly out from Australia
I joined around 14k subs. Watched the whole backlog since then which was fun and educational. Looking forward to what u will show us in the future. Greetings from Friesland!
Been with you since you had 1200 subs. Great stuff Mate!
I arrived because of the Tren de Soller video, having been to Mallorca many times I love that thing. Although it was more that RUclips recommended it to me. I stayed because of the awesome back catalogue, of which I have watched them all. Oh and I particularly like the piano music, makes me feel about 10 again!
First comment after having seen all the videos :) If I remember well for me it started with the weird border video as I wanted to know more about it after finding it randomly on Google Maps :) I stayed for your Humor and the interesting storytelling for your short video snippets. Keep it up!
your channel is wonderful! would love to see you do videos about the Causcasus countries!
Congrats on your subscriber count, currently 62.5K! Thanks for your great videos.
Fun stuff as always... that place you were filming this from reminds me of Reichsparteitagsgelände (checks spelling) in Nuremberg- although that had a very different purpose of course!
Hello from Michigan.. my five year old and I get a kick out of your travels..
That was dads army theme in the background of the section about the nazi residential complex. Very good choice!
it’s crazy how fast your channel has grown!
Dude, your humor is brilliant - come back to Vienna and do a Meet and Greet here, that would be so cool
Great channel. Nice to see it begin to take off.
Love your videos especially the music choices and how a lot of the videos end with the Wish You Were Here theme tune.
60K+. Congrats on your channel.
Seeing as you are apparently welcoming suggestions of places to visit, the Barton Swing Aqueduct near Manchester is pretty interesting.
It's a spectacular piece of civil engineering and transport infrastructure which is both unique (as far as I know, it is the only moving navigable aqueduct in the world) and which hasn't been paid much attention by RUclips channels.
Wow man, the kind of spike we've been dreaming of. Great vids... keep up the awesome work, from this Aussie team who'll never make it to your destinations!
Damn I'm so glad you are getting so many subscribers.
Cheers from Madrid!
Thoroughly enjoying watching the catchup-facts on the 50,000 Subscriber Special, while looking at the current subscriber total of 264,000 - that escalated quickly :)
Love your vids. The quirk factor is so me. Don't stop. I want MORE content. Thank you !
Awesome video !!! I'm a new subscriber,,,,, I doubt that I'll ever get to travel to any of the places that you show ,,,, but ,,, tgats why I watch ,, I can see what things look like and gain some knowledge assesses . I wish for you the best of luck and the Best of health and a speedy track to 1 Million subscribers !!!
I'll be there to take on the highest MOUNTAIN in Flevoland with you Tim :)
Thymon Van Der Ploeg car pool from Den Haag?
Dude. amazing videos!! hard not to like. Case in point only 7 dislikes!! (probably from the usual 13 year old critics) keep on doing this. You are great at it. I honestly enjoy your channel. Cheers
Cheers Gus!
An interesting place to go to might be the Drachenfels in Königswinter near Cologne (Though obviously Cologne itself is also worth a visit, you get to see a cathedral that took nearly 700 years to build), home to a medieval castle ruin, a 19th century palace, some vineyards and a cog railway run with 1950s vintage EMUs. Right by the Rhine across from Bonn (so about 15 miles from the next international Airport).
So it's a combination of interesting buildings, railways and mountain climbing. Königswinter itself is also a really quaint place.
"19th Century Palace" - Petersberg or Hirschburg?
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Schloss Drachenburg, it's about halfway up the same mountain. Built in 1882 in Gothic style, and it was the residence of a Baron at the time.
The Karl-Marx-Hof is 1.1km. In The Netherlands there's the "hofbogen", a railway track lifted from the ground, with a building beneath. That building is 1.6 km long. Here's more info (in Dutch) nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofpleinlijnviaduct
I am a really new followers but I love your videos, interesting and funny! Have you heard of Kiruna in Sweden where they are moving the whole town to make the hole in the ground even bigger :)
You make videos like Tom Scott but more about culture and history than science and technology. I'm shocked you haven't already blown up way bigger
"Something you might not have knowm"
that was good :-)
I liked the QI theme in the background.
My wife thinks I'm mad as I've spent much of the past month going around the house whistling the theme tune from "Wish you were here...?" - I also have it stuck in my head 24/7, so thanks for that.
My pleasure :)
You are in Estonia!! I live in Tallinn, this is gonna be great!!!
I like that the soundtrack to your video is the sad piano theme they play on Neighbours, when someone dies. Nice touch!
We have the same thing here as with Urk. I live on the former island of Wieringen, which became connected with the mainland because of the Afsluitdijk. We still call ourselfs Wieringers here and we even have our own flag and "Anthem".
Side note to stabilisation question : what is valuable on this channel is the one-shot style - sick to death of Neistat-style walk-through vlog shots - thank you so much \m/
Thankfully the India-Bangladesh border was actually sorted out with a land swap in 2015.
Edit: acocrding to Wikipedia only a single enclave remains, that of Dahagram.
You had less than 600 subscribers when I found you. Congratz on your success.
As a Limburgish person, the 'Holland' thing did stick out to me, but I didn't really get offended by it. It used to bug me, but I'm chill about it now. For me it was incredibly noticable because it was an incorrect name used by a channel all about interesting places, which was odd and out of place.
As for the three uses of the name 'Holland' by Dutch people: those are probably the only times they bug me (and that's an overstatement) because it's fellow Dutchies doing it wrong. Often they're Hollanders too, so you can see why that's sort of an issue :P
In all seriousness though, big fan of the channel already after subbing to it only shortly before the huge wave came. I even sent it to a friend of mine, who subscribed and binged your entire collection of videos. Maybe the two of us will be there when you go to Urk. I'd love to see ya.
Congratulations!
That’s kicked off quick! I was in the first 1500. You deserve it for some great content and humour but, yes, wow that’s a jump!
that channel is so entertaining. i love it.
Ooh Tallin! A wonderful City!
62.7k subs as I type this! Well done, Tim; when I subscribed, I think you'd just reached 1000 subs! It's totally deserved, I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us :¬)
the end of the videos gave me a good reason to subscribe.
Hey Tim, once again nice video, and I'll try to make it to Urk! But there is one thing i am wondering about. The intro song from all of your other movies: is it an existing tune, or is it something you made up yourself? If so, Kudo's to you! Greetings from a Dutch fan!
I was there in Tallinn too. This building is incredible. I don't know why I love brutalist architecture.
You will be able to visit that thin strip in Cyprus Tim. It's part of the ESBA (British eastern sovereign base area), the road runs between Dhekalia and Ayios Nikolaos, the two parts that make up ESBA. It also serves as the border in that part of the island. Anyone who is visiting the Republic of Cyprus can drive along it, there are no points of control between the sovereign base areas and the ROC, apart from the actual military sites. I'll be frank, unless you are a real sucker for border guard posts to either side of a road, there isn't much to see whilst driving along it. Enjoy :D !!!
Ah thanks for the info, much appreciated! It's difficult to find out any details about travelling there, everyone just wants to talk about Cyprus' beaches, night life, and ancient historical sites, can't imagine why...
Have you been to Schokland already? Another “dry” island in the Dutch polder.
When we were young, we used to jump from helicopter landing deck over fountain, when chopper was departing or arriving)))
3:35 - QI theme song?
**CLACKSON CLACKSON**
Go see his Piano channel for that
@@Nathan_A_RF Wait. I feel left out. He has a piano channel?
@@veganmonter Apparently, yes. Go to his channel, then there's a link to a channel called Abandoned Rugs, where he plays piano. Here's the QI theme video: ruclips.net/video/lyZY5qBi3fk/видео.html
@@daanwilmer That channel also needs 60k subscribers!
Nice! Seems like last week you were at 10k
Oh yes, Tim! Go to Prora!
I went to Cyprus in 2016, rented a car and went to Famagusto on the Turkish Asian part of the island,
passing the small Greek European strip of land with simple fences on either sides.
At the border I had to pay something like €20 for an insurance for 1 day for going into the Turkish part with my rental car.
There is a military base on the wider part at the end of the narrow strip of Greek land.
I tried to go back to the Greek part more south of Famagusta, but there is a Turkish Military zone there.
So, I had to go back the same way along the weird strip of land.
There is also a huge no-go zone south of Famagusta near the coast which was a booming tourist place until the 1960's or so,
when it became a military zone all at once.
Almost all places have a different Greek and Turkish name. Famagusta is called Gazimağusa in the Turkish part.
So, sometimes it's hard to find your way around, especially when they sometimes only use the Greek alphabet.
On the Greek and Turkish roads both one drives on the left side of the road.
Weird if one considers that in Greece and Turkey one drives on the right side.
Ah cheers for the info Dimitri! It's hard to find out much about the border area online. I've seen some drone shots of the no-go zone in Famagusta, and it looks incredible. Would love to do a video there but I think the Turkish military might not be too keen on the idea...
@@TheTimTraveller Your welcome. I don't remember any particular border control at the tide land strip.
You might ask what you can film and what not at the English Dhekelia military base at the wider part at the end of the tide strip of land. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia
In 1960 Cyprus became independent from England.
My daughter put a video on RUclips of our holiday on Cyprus. One part of it is at the city walls of Famagusta:
ruclips.net/video/njqFTeBuCAA/видео.html
You had me at the Blockbusters theme…
Such dry humor! If you happen to be in Rotterdam on december 13, join us in the pub!
Hey Tim, have you considered going to Mt Pilatus in Switzerland? It's got everything important - boat from Luzern, cog railway up the mountain or I suppose you could hike up if you're nuts, then get flung off the other side in an aerial cable car. And of course it's Switzerland!!
OK, the Tomorrow's World theme tune in the background made me laugh there. Well played.
Thanks for the great videos. I don't care if you make the odd mistake; they're free and entertaining.
The world needs more people with this attitude :D
Let's just all agree to call it Hollerlands and avoid any more confusion.
Talking about strange borders, I've just read an article about a Hungarian village a few days ago, which has a border in the middle of it, it was divided in two halves, one of them is now in Slovakia, the other is in Ukraine. In the socialist era there was a six metres tall wooden plank on the border to ensure the cutaway family members not to even see the other side. Plus there have been barbed wire fences, guards with dogs just like at the iron curtain to Western Europe.
Been there since 2000 subs. Yeah I know that’s so yesterday. Gotta love the RUclips algorithm and all its eccentric moves.
If I'm not mistaken, the (external) opening shots of the movie Tenet were shot in this location in Tallinn.
This, Reviewbrah and SteveMRE are the most wholesome RUclips-Channels.
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