Christmas Town in Valkenburg, The Netherlands (Xmas Market in Caves!)
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Fairytale Valkenburg (Christmas Markets in a Cave!)
This week, we're taking you with us to the city of Valkenburg, in the Limburg province of The Netherlands. Valkenburg hosts a Kerkstad (Christmas Town) and Christmas markets tucked away in a few caves found in the town. Lots of shopping, a gezellig atmosphere, delicious food, and a fairy-tale-like mood await! We enjoyed our time visiting, and think it's worth a visit to see it just once!
The Valkenburg Kerkstad and Cave Markets are open until the end of December!
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Great video but way too short. The caves are indeed not that special. More important is the christmas feeling you get from the decorations, nice food, warm drinks and of course nice people like you. ❤️❤️❤️
You’re so kind, Michel! Thanks for watching! ❤️
Valkenburg is nice, I think the caves are more interesting to visit when it's not Christmas. Its history is interesting. There are also drawings and messages on the walls of American soldiers who were there when the caves also served as a kind of hospital during World War II. You can take a tour with a guide who can tell many great stories.
We’re really interested in going to visit in the spring! Thank you so much for watching!
@@TAndTGoDutch You're welcome.
Thanks for the tour .. never been there before.
The german christmas markets are the best, lots of amazing food and warm drinks. Nice and cozy. A must see 😀
💜, tip for Kerst: gourmetten 🤣
Lekker!
Never been during the Christmas season, but Valkenburg is beautiful. You should go back in summertime and try the rodelbaan. Also the Roman caves are very special
I’ve been there in March and visited the first cave (which is manmade like the other cave because they dug out mergel, which is sort of a sandstone). It’s more interesting when there is no Christmas market because a guide shows you around and talks about everything (and also makes sure you don’t get lost as it’s a deep cave complex going on for miles). The cave exits at the castle which is also fun to visit, it’s a ruin as it was destroyed during a battle in the Disaster Year 1672 (when England, France and Germany invaded the Netherlands).
We definitely want to go back after the holidays to properly enjoy it. Thank you for the information!
Christmas or not, whenever we drive in to Valkenburg it immediately feels like we're no longer in the Netherlands anymore. The old buildings and the buildingstyles, the small streets and square with all the bars and restaurants, I love it.
A very beautifull and impressive place nearby is the American military cemetary and memorial at the town Margraten, there are more then 8000 soldiers burried.
Valkenburg and the area is also a really nice area to bike, if you're up for the hills like the famous Cauberg in Valkenburg, but I'ld suggest you skip that one, cause I'll bet you you can't make it and would step off the bike to walk.
Looking forward to your Maastricht video!
Fun fact. The trainstation of Valkenburg is the oldest one in The Netherlands. Also Valkenburg is also nice during the rest of the year. And the christmas market in the cave is great.
Thanks for sharing, keep up the good works!
Love the buffalo (bison) on your hat. And 😘 for the flawless ‘Valkenburg’!
Hi guys! Great video! You are so cute together❤ It’s nice to see how everything is decorated for the holidays! 🎄
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Yay! Another Bills fan in the NL!
Yay! Hello! Go Bills! 🦬
Christmas is similar to Thanksgiving in the way it is family celebration. Dinner with the family. We turn off the tv and play Scrabble. The gift giving is with Sinterklaas.
Sounds incredibly gezellig!
I would suggest next year checking out the Christmas markets in Germany. IMO, much better
We will definitely do that!
Nice show guys! Looks very gezellig in Valkenburg! 🎄👍
It was lovely, but we’re looking forward to visiting again in warmer (and less busy!) circumstances.
i go tomorrow
Presents are for Sinterklaas in our family, Christmas is for church on Christmas' eve and a nice dinner on BOTH Christmas days. I don't put up a tree, just a nativity set. Houses here are decorated far more muted than in the States. Most lights are just white. A big thing that sells really well is the Christmas villages. Check out ANY garden centre for more info on that.
That’s awesome! We both grew up having Christmas villages, so that would be a fun tradition to continue here.
Chrismas markets are a tradition from Germany. The Dutch version is less spectacular, however it is enjoyable. Valkenburg is touristic, nice for a summer holiday as well. Thank you for this impression
Thank you for watching!
Hey Friends, Valkenburg is a bit touristy but maybe that's not a bad thing :-) At the end you go to a christmas event to see the people celebrate the holiday season. Do you know Antwerpen has its own decorated and lighted city center and christmas market? It is pretty decent! Antwerp always does something extra to attract people so I dare to say it is pretty magical. Coming week though it is going to be COLD! Weather forecast is -5 to 0 at mid day time. With some wind it feels like proper winter!!
I, as an ordinary Dutchman, find Valkenburg a big tourist trap. Of course I've been there, but it's not something I'd go to again. On the other hand, the largest Christmas market in the Netherlands is close to your home. The large Christmas market is located in Haarlem. The largest in the country!!!!! Haarlem is easily accessible from Leiden, you know that. And you can visit your favorite Mexican restaurant too! Maastricht is a very nice city, by the way. There was always a very nice Christmas market on the square there (with an ice rink). My daughter once performed at the Christmas market. It was very cold then, but very nice.
I fully agree with you! To me, all Christmas markets are tourist traps, also the ones in other countries.
We positively loved Maastricht, and wished we got to spend the whole weekend there! We’ll need to go back soon.
You better go to Aken (Aachen) in Germany, very closeby. Not only are Vhristmas Markets more a German ‘thing’, Aachen was also the capital of the Roman-German Reich, which strechted from the North of Italy to Denmark and from the Baltic to the Netherlands. Empereur Charlemagne lived and died in the city and was buried in the Dom. And least but not least: Aachen is a pleasant town.
If you plan to go Aachen, do yourself a favour and visit Trier. Probably the best city to see what the Roman Empire left behind.
Very cool, we will have to check that out sometime. Thank you so much for the information!
@@TAndTGoDutch Valkenburg has much more to offer, you can reach Aachen with the OV chip, or NS flex…
For the real Christmas feel, go to Austria; Tirol, preferentially to a small village like Kufstein for the holidays. That's where the magic really is: Snow capped mountains, the entire right atmosphere, ah well, just go there and find out for yourself ;-)
Sounds incredibly beautiful!
You should go to Germany. The best one is Dresden but Cologne is also great (better than Dusseldorf) and not far away.
What we do with Cristmas? We go to Curaçao!
Merry Christmas 🎅🎅🎅
Sounds incredible!!!
this has nothing to do with christmas specificly, but might i suggest a very good restaurant in the provice im from.
in twente close to the german border there is a restaurant with 5 star dutch pancakes and very good other food
its a medieval themed place with the whole christmas/ medieval inn vibe going, a little to the fantasy side in the garden where there is a terras.
this place is called ''de watermolen van bels'' and as the name suggests its a watermill besides the restaurant is a small river and a large forest where you can have the most beautifull walks!
its quite the experience so i tought i might share this information with you and its up to you if you do anything with it
i wish you all the best
and happy holidays!
greetings from twenterand
Thank you so much, that sounds absolutely fantastic. We will need to check that out!
We found Maastricht to be the most French feeling of the Netherlands cities, if that makes any sense?
Yes! We completely get that. There were a few moments while we were in Maastricht that it felt that we were in France.
Its true German christmas market are bigger and nicer, you can trave l buy bus, witch you can book online,
And Christmast market in France are also Amazing, Rouen- France, its such a beautiful city to visit around Chrristmas time
Great suggestions, thank you!
Yes, or Luik
Christmas Markets in The Netherlands are very modest, let’s say Calvinistic 😏. I agree that the Germans are the real specialists in this matter. A lot of people from The Netherlands go around Christmas to Dortmund, Düsseldorf or Köln
That makes total sense. Looks like we’ll be heading to Germany for Christmas markets next year!
If you want a bourgondic food xmasmarket, go to the one in Luik, the oldest one in Belgium
The German ones ARE better! I love that (at least in Münster, the one I know best) there is just a lot more quality stuff: wooden utensils, hand-crafted goods, not so much plastic.
Yes, that’s very much what we were looking for!
I missed food!
We definitely picked up some fudge!
Nice, but very superficial; you missed the opportunity to learn about the caves: how and why were they made and what was their super important function during WW2!
Totally agree. We’re eager to go back when there’s not so many people and explore more!
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Agreed that German Christmas markets are better. It’s their culture. The Dutch Christmas markets are just a cheap derivative of that.
But you really need to go back to Valkenburg in the summer and drink some white beers in the sun on the countless terraces and have a full tour of the caves (both cave entrances are connected to each other and you’ll get the same highlights from both) and in juli/august eat handcrafted ice cream with fresh picked cherries.
That sounds like such a worthwhile trip. Thank you so much for the info, we’d probably enjoy that much better.
@@TAndTGoDutch by the way, there’s a small German mountain town named Monschau only 65 km from Valkenburg that is renowned for its Christmas shops and market. They start being “chrismassey” in september. But it’s best to get there by rental car from Maastricht or so because German public transport to smaller towns can be quite frustrating.