American Reacts to 'Even Small Towns are Great Here' (5 Years in the Netherlands)
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025
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As being Dutch myself, I have to remind myself sometimes that I shouldn't take this country for granted :)
How glad I am, and many others, that you are also looking at this. Many only see Amsterdam when they go here or on holiday and do not see the rest of our small country, there is so much to see, and since you have already been here you also know roughly how it works with public transport etc. So if you come again, explore the rest of the Netherlands too!
yes next time definitely visit the place Giethoorn then you will see a completely different part of the Netherlands
Hij woont al 5 jaar in Amsterdam. 😂 Gek hé. 🎉
@@on-the-pitch-p3w Je haalt het één en ander door elkaar, ben ik bang.
Lees anders even opnieuw aan wie dit commentaar gericht is (hint: het is niet Jason Slaughter 😉)
i often complain about my country but after seeing your reactions i feel ecstatic about my country
and then u think about the islamization who hate western culture but come here for free money everywhere and the shitty left 'green for the planet' government when being green has absolutely zero use when countries like China and America Russia and India don't go green and u feel bad again
Most of the time you don’t realize what you have till you don’t. Seeing the Netherlands from your perspective makes me realize that i need to appreciate my country more. It’s easy to complain all day whiteout any reference.
ik kan me nog goed een poolse collega herinneren die door heel Europa had gewerkt. Openbaar vervoer en de wegen zijn in Nederland veruit het beste. Waarschijnlijk omdat we allemaal zo zeiken, dus stop er maar niet mee, maar wees ook tevreden met wat je hebt, af en toe ;)
@ hahahaha tevreden zijn is lastig maar het kan altijd erger zeg ik dan maar 😂
Resident of Alkmaar here and loved your enthusiastic reaction😊. If you are in the area one day you are more then welcome to come along on a boottrip.
Great vlog 👍👍👍
I live in Arnhem , Holland .
But I'm an Xpat from Melbourne , Australia .....
After having lived here for that long now , I'm getting my Dutch passport to 👍🙏❤🤍💙 The flag , from top to bottom stripes , horizontal . ( Same colours as the Aussie flag )
But you know what ? They COULDN'T PAY ME ENOUGH TO MOVE BACK , I FOUND THE COUNTRY THAT I WANT TO GROW OLD IN ...... NO OTHER COUNTRY IS AS ORGANISED AND SAFE , FRIENDLY AS THIS ONE ! ( Helps of course that I speak pretty good Dutch to by now ) ... Mind you , Dutch = very similar to English , you'd be surprised ! 😮😊 Give it about 5 to 6 months of night school , and really , you CAN TALK to the DUTCH !! 👍👍👍
It must be a virus , once people from abroad have lived here for a while , they WANT TO STAY !
Thanks for this vlog mate ,
Cheers & catch you next time ,
Helen 👍🍺 💙
I grew up in Odense (150,000 inhabitants) in Denmark and lived on a main road with a bus stop just outside the apartment block. Every 15 minutes, a bus was passing, but I always used my bicycle to get around.
Then I moved to England (without my bicycle) and later rural England. I worked and lived 12 to 14 km to the nearest bus stop where the buses passed every hour or every 2 hours.
In 1976, I moved back to live in a village just outside Odense for a year. There were buses in the morning and afternoon and on Saturdays after 15.30, no busses were passing until Monday morning. 😢
So it was back to the bicycle or moped.
Now the village has been totally integrated in Odense and has regular bus service all day and all week through.
Although Odense has an advanced bicycle path system, it is still way behind most of the Netherlands.
Thank you for Eriksen (Ajax fan)
12:55 - Yes, that bus that runs every 12 minutes is probably more or less a coincidence. This happens to be a busstop with multiple routes going by. Normally, in small villages / towns, a bus will do a route every hour or so. Most small towns have now switched to "belbus", meaning you press a button in a website / app, and the driver will begin his / her route. Kind of like calling a cab, but for public transport.
I agree with the first part of your comment, it's probably 2 routes that pass by there. But the typical bus route outside of the Randstad in my experience goes every 30 minutes, and in the evenings in some cases every hour. Maybe the smallest of villages use the belbus concept but I haven't encountered that yet (in 31 years).
@@crazymonkeyVII Its getting less and less with all the bezuinigingen
@Flippityflap yeah that's true. And they stop earlier and earlier...
And nowadays, the frequency of bus routes is minimal during (school) holidays.But once you know that, you can plan your public transport ahead online and get somewhere on time still.
I guess i've taken our bike infrastructure for granted. I'm so used to it
I get a feeling someone will be checking out the flights for a revisit to Haarlem. The videos of your Euro trip last year are brilliant Joel, great for a winter rewatch!
The Watergate at 18:12 is on our standard deck of cards! In the Netherlands, the Aces resemble cities. It's the ace of Spades.
yea localised playing cards are commen here in the south to (zeeland).
Living in a small compact country has many advantages i.e. easy to maintain, provide excellent infrastructure and public transport, family is always less than 3 hours away, you can live close to your job, other countries are close by, etc. etc.
Netherland is also flat so it's easier to use bikes. Though the dutch urbanism is pretty well made and nice.
@@burninhell107But its allways windy.
As someone who lives in Assen, it's nice to see some appreciation for some of the cities in the North of the Netherlands. Most tourists go to Amsterdam, Rotterdam and cities surrounding, but Northern Netherlands is an entire other cup of tea, which most people don't visit, sadly.
En als jij bijvoorbeeld naar New York gaat, ga jij dan ook naar Woodbridge? Hell no. Doe niet zo dom.
En toch zie je nederlanders meer steden aan doen im de vs van oost naar west, noord naar zuid... Amerikanen daarentegen geilen puur op de randstad en trekken daarmee hun conclusie over hoe en wat nederland is "doe niet zo dom"....@@on-the-pitch-p3w
@@on-the-pitch-p3w Je hoeft niet zo onaardig te doen, ik gaf alleen mijn mening. En Woodbridge ligt niet in New York, het heet Woodridge. Niet mij dom noemen als je het zelf ook niet weet. Ik hoop dat je een fijne dag hebt, dankjewel.
18:28 This building is called the Waterpoort and is the symbol of Sneek
The Watergate at 18:12 is on our standard deck of cards! In the Netherlands, the Aces resemble cities. It's the ace of Spades.
I have lived in several countries, in Europe and outside of Europe only in Mexico, but I have always taken this side of my country for granted until I was in Mexico. What a different world compared to Europe in general. But even other countries in Europe don't have this manicured infrastructure like The Netherlands does. I still appreciate other countries in Europe equally.
That's how taxes should be spent, when the government asks for higher taxes from people.
There is a clear return of your "investment".
I grew up in Haarlem and yes, it IS better than Amsterdam. Happy to hear you liked it!
I concur. But in my older generation there was an aversity against Amsterdam in Haarlem. It was seen as a chaotic Sodom and Gomorra.
I grew up in Amsterdam and yes! Haarlem is better.
I grew up in Haarlem, and yes Amsterdam is much nicer. 🎉🎉🎉❤
Live in Haarlem, work in either, party in Amsterdam, best of both worlds.
The Netherlands has so much
cycle paths
And people wanted more space to cycle safely.
And that worked.
Cycle paths were laid everywhere throughout the Netherlands.
About 35000 km of cycle path, that is almost the circumference of the world.
Always Great Videos 👍
Thank you
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Love from Volendam
The Most Famous Village in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Volendam is One of the
Tourist Attractions of
The Netherlands,
Almost 1.5 Million Tourists
Visit Volendam Every Year in Search or Volendammers in Traditional Costume and Fishing Boats 🥰
Volendam heeft al genoeg toch. Ik woon in Leeuwarden.
Ga weg met je volendam.
@sanmama1602
Leeuwarden is ook fantastisch hoor,
ben er vaak geweest. Ik heb trouwens een vriendin uit
Sneek >Snits<
als ze in het Fries sprak kon ik haar amper verstaan,
veel gelachen met haar, was een gewoon een Toppertje
Fijne avond doeiii🙋🏼♀️
As a Belgian teenager,I know in Belgium that inside the "Bebouwde kom" which translates to builded/urbanized centre you can only drive 50km/h and this exists in small city centres too
In Walloonia, it's a little worse ruled because there are a lot of less urban regions there,Flanders is just overbuilded I think
I'm German/American and I was raised Düsseldorf, Germany not far from the Netherlands. I am now 60 years old and I have never really considered moving back to the states. Now with the situation in the US I will def not move back for the next four years. However, the infrastructure in Germany is not yet as good as it is in Holland, but it has gotten close in the past 10 years. Love your videos and I keep sending them to my sister, who lives in Florida and whom I would love to come back to Europe. It is so much safer living in Europe and the work life balance is indispensable if you love life 🙂Have you been to Groningen? Check out the bikes in front of the University in the middle of the old part of town. Beautiful 🙂
So much safer in Europe? Sure, if you forget the rampant crime, grenade attacks, SA's, child exploitation, etc, etc...
We do have a lot of cars only the Netherlands isn't just focus on those cars but all road users pedestrians included. Everything is designed for safe use with help of the traffic rules and traffic measure. Also a lot of people use a bike or walk even when they have a car.
In the netherlands you can get a ticket for honking if its not in a dangerous situation
Unless ur Turkish.
North America screwed up planning city sprawling and zoning, a long long time ago. Practically irreparable, yet increasingly unsustainable as well, from more than one angle. Or maybe any angle even.
@@Elvewizzy. was gonna say, tuuuteren is pretty much 'accepted'. It's mostly cultural - everyone honking their car achieves little. Even them Turks know they shouldn't do it all the time as it loses all meaning. They go with the concentrated approach a few times a year, sort of like new years eve.
Wait you can? I need to call the police on those people then!
Great video! Hi, Jps .... watching your reaction to this, plus videos of other places/countries on this side of 'the pond', as well as your own travel experiences, I can imagine 'YOU' producing this kind of content one day, once you have migrated away from the US and settled somewhere in Europe. 🙂
The problem is not only the infrastructure. It has to do with attitude as well.
If you put a Dutch infrastructure in a place in North-America it would not work.
In the Netherlands the car is not a status symbol. It is simply a means of transport. We choose the way we travel by convenience. Going on a bike or taking public transport is not only for the poor. In NA it is. There the car is a status symbol. If you go on a bike, or take public transport ( which is really bad ) to work, or the gym, wherever, it is seen as you being poor.
In The Netherlands if you go by car and come back in the evening to find there is no way to park your car, we don´t go by car. Simple.
The former Minister-President of the Netherlands lives/lived ( I don´t really know, and don´t care enough to find it out ) in the centre of The Hague. So he went to his work on his bike. The most convenient way. BTW he has a car, an old Saab.
However, it is possible to change, if enough people are interested. Give them the opportunity to choose... Problem usually is, people wait until everything is nice and safe and frequent, but the cost is too great and opposition comes, if bike lanes or busses aren't full instantly.
I'm a 44 years old Dutch guy, I remember the tail end of The Netherlands reconfiguring the road infrastructure. I've heard my parents grumble quite a lot about this street that was closed off from now and they had to take this-and-that roundabout way to get to whatever, why do they have to make it so inconvenient... And they were right. There were many small local measures that changed up things, that made traffic flow less logical, that led to bottlenecks (which got modified in turn, leading to...). It was a lot of hassle, with a lot of grumbling.
Until it didn't. At one point the grumbling stopped, people were used to having to drive longer to the limited access points to city centers, they were used to parking being a hassle due to limited number of parking spots. From that point it completely turned around: now people are complaining at their local govt. because cars are driving too fast through this or that street and they demand traffic calming measures!
Oké.
I think I've seen imagery of the current prime minister cycling also. Anyways, the midset also matters; even if you're in a car now you're the cyclist in an other instance so they are one of us and not one of them even when you are in a car. As for public transport, especially busses, they are focused on getting you in and out of city centers. when you need to go between adjacent areas away from the center jou usually have a challenge.
Example: I can bike to work in between 10 and 15 minutes. Car is about 5 minutes quicker (door to door, so, excluding walking time to and from nearby parking locations). Just walking is 50 minutes and bus can be either 5 minutes of actual bus time and 35 minutes waling to and from relevant bus stops or 55 minutes total using the nearest bus stops on both ends which still includes 15 minutes walking in total.
the PM would also have a bunch of fat Audi or BMW business sedans for work, for when he needs a car during his duties , but yeah in private he would just bike when that is more convenient
Thank you for posting a link to the original video.
Just last week I took a bus from Groningen to just outside Lauwersoog. Busses go about every two hours.
Am Dutch, I violently despise our fireworks tradition. It is loud, messy and dangerous for no particular reason. Yeah, it is pretty to some degree but people take it WAY too far with about 6 hours of continuous explosions going off.
As an alternative to the excellent bus transit in the clip, the one with the cows in the background, there's the local Arriva railways as well, with departures of about every half hour to Leeuwarden, swiftly connecting you with friends in let's say Turin or Helsinki.😎
The Lidl shop in Vathorst is the one where i go for my groceries! (Amersfoort)
every video not just bikes makes is amazing and well scripted
hihi new years eve was nice, I saw a lot of fireworks :) So nice to see you love Haarlem my hometown
12:39 You're right: many cities have bus lines for their own inhabitants to get around (to work, shops, train stations etc.) but there's also public transport at provincial level. These are so-called 'concessions' that transport companies can make a bid upon. The province then selects the one with the best price vs quality ratio. Concessions are usually awarded for a period of 10 or 15 years. These busses travel over longer distances throughout the province, usually ending at a main public transport hub, like an intercity train station, but during the trip you can see people getting on and off the bus everywhere, so they also act as a means to get to a neighboring village. Jutrijp is situated along the main provincial road from Lemmer to Sneek (Sneek has a train station), and is quite close to Sneek, so no wonder that so many busses, serving different lines, pass through Jutrijp.
11:30 I live in a small town 9 km away from Diepenheim. And yeah, it's beautifull. Smallest city of Twente, it has like three of four castles and/or homesteads. A lot of scenic landscape and agricultural history.
Those trains in the middle of the video are Swiss Stadler FLIRTs. 12 min intervals between buses is even good for London standards where suburban rail runs every 15-30 mins and buses also run every 10 mins or so on most routes.
every 12 minutes is a fluke, that little village must be on 3 major routes by chance, because otherwise it would have a few buses in the morning and afternoon for school kids and workers, and then only 1 per hour the rest of the day (and even that is not a given these days)
@Blackadder75 you must be talking about England and project to your experience to others.
Because the town where I am from is served better by trains than Cambridge or Peterborough in the United England
@ no i am talking about the country in this video, the netherlands . we usually don't have busses every 12 minutes here in small villages
@@Blackadder75 you don't usually have trains or buses in London every 12 mins.
There's a small village near me in the Cotswolds, UK.
One day I noticed a small bus shelter and asked in the pub if there was a regular service in the village.
"Oooh, arr", said a local. "Comes every Thursday at one o'clock. Regular as clockwork."
We have such good infrastructure because it is paid by our taxes. Yes, our tax is higher than in USA/Can, but it is used to make life nicer/easier for us.
Thanks mate, about right.
I worked for 50 years in Amsterdam, and we live near Alkmaar.
We love to travel all around Netherlands, specially up North and East. West and South tend to be a bit on the crowdy side 🤣🤣>
I must say, we have been to NY several times too, and that has its own charm.
The Dutch are very practical people. Bikes are very practical. That's the reason :)
15:56 Another thing that's really big here is recycling. If you look at the left of the screen, you see a guy tearing up and disposing, of a piece of cardboard. Just like bike lanes, these are everywhere. Usually somewhere central and close to a store and mostly at least one per village, depending on the size of the city.
Haha cool to see my biking route to work through Lent/Nijmegen in one of your videos 😁
Please do a collab with Its Charlie Vest, he seems so sweet and loves the Netherlands too!!!
It's kinda crazy to see someone just filming in Alkmaar, Molentochtpad. I used to bike there on the daily, and used to hang out around that skate park.
I still remember climbing up the roof of the school in the last shot hahaha.
dont worry about pausing! we want to see and hear what you think, that’s why we watch :) greetings from Haarlem
Snall towns maybe. But villages in the countryside often have once an hour or less
Not sure where you live bit i live on island above zeeland but even there its 30 min for the busses
The bus-connection between my village and another village closeby is every half hour, ( trip 15 minutes) but only on weekdays during the day. In the evening and in weekends I have to travel via a city and it takes me 1,5 hour to get there.
16:35 where people meet vs where metal meets
I have a feeling that you will be back in The Netherlands in the future...
Bike-holiday perhaps, combining trains and rental bikes from the station.
Not just bikes is a great channel.
I had no idea about the bad infrastructure in the USA, people on bikes are very brave.
He made a video about going to a hardware store NL versus USA on bike.
I was shocked to be honest.
Makes me very gratefull for what we have in The Netherlands.
Amsterdam is great, you just have to get off the few touristy paths/areas. Everyone in the Netherlands knows the best neighbourhoods are outside of the canal ring. And those neighbourhoods, I do enjoy more than Haarlem.
Oh and even in the city center, there are so many undiscovered parts without tourists (that are coincidentally, much much more beautiful). I feel next time you should go with someone who is a local in Amsterdam. (if anyone would ever need a free, personal tourguide, let me know haha I love explaining and showing things about my city).
The biggest problem other countries have, is that they build their current infrastructure around cars, most of our towns and cities grew or were modernized with cycling build into the infrastructure. We also have the advantage of being a small country so its sometimes better to just take the bike. And when you see cows in the Netherlands, you are also driving on a highway, and a road, in a train, bike lane, dirt road, forests, lol...
20:00 Alkmaar has its city rights for 760 years now.
But it's been a large town going back to Roman times and has been inhabited for 9000 years before that as a collection of villages.
So, yes, it's a city with about 112000 people living there.
1:19 Phoenixstraat in Delft, my hometown...
Sneek has a two two towered waterpoort, or water gate.. It is not a tunnel
8:15. Lol..
This is where my mother lives..
I live in Rotterdam though but i have to say the big cities aren't fun anymore.
Gun and drug violence is growing.
I even sometimes joking by saying that The Netherlands is looking more like America every day 😂
Anyways nice video, it's cool to see Americans and Canadians or w/e loving my country. ❤
The problem with cycling in the UK is that you will, at some point get your bike stolen. You couldn't leave your bike next to a remote bus stop. When one of my bikes was stolen, I was asked to come to the police station to identify a length of snipped chain (it wasn't mine).
I laughed so hard at 'identifying a lenght of chain'.
Theft is the same for the Netherlands. That's why we usualy have two bikes. One good bike for long trips. And a city'wreck' to take to high risk areas. As cheap as possible, if it looks pretty ratty even better, just needs to drive. Also: maybe you can hide a tracker on your bike.
Safe travels and have a good week!
@@dasja9966 The best thing was that the policeman's name was PC Shackles! LOL
@pauldenby878 it was a good story as is, but this made it so much better!😂
I live in a village with a very long name: Gasselternijveen, near - I am not kidding-
Gasselternijveenschemond.
2000 inhabitants, but also a busstation and in the morning and rushhour 4 busses every hour.
690 inhabitants in 2023 ... did you count the cattle as well?
oh wait, you listed 2 village names, I got confused with the smaller one
I'm from the north of NL, Fryslân, but the busses here are really not riding every 15 minutes. If you are on a route with more larger towns you mostly have one every hour.
But a route nearby doesn't have a bus on sundays.
So forget the 15 minute busses.😊😊
hmmmm Jutrijp has a bus every 12 minutes? Must be, because it's so close to Sneek, because I can assure you; in these small villages in rural area's there's not every 12 minutes a bus. More like 6 over the whole day ( last bus around 19:30-20:00) and none over the weekend. And some villages don't even have a dedicated busschedule anymore. People have to call in for a bus, that then will arrive after around 1 to 2 hours. I used to live in a village with around 400 in the same province as Jutrijp and back then a bus would arrive 7 times a day and around 4 times on saturday......years later and that now has been reduced to around 5 times a day and none in the weekend...Jutrijp is an exception, because these small villages are normally not getting that many busses per day. For most villages in rural area's it's more 1 bus every 2 to 3 hours or none even
Biggest problem in Canada and the U.S. is that all of the stores, schools, restaurants, cafe's, local small businesses like hairdressers etc. are located (too) far away from where (most) people actually live.
Nice!! I live close to alkmaar and also went to liquicity festival.
Remember due to the close to each other density of the town, villages and cities ( often a 15 min max drive to the next town/village) the way we commute / travel has to differ form the US/Canada.
Ofcourse we use cars (11 million for 17 million people) and love them but we use them more in a practical sense.
We even transport our bicycles on mass on the towhook of our cars!
And public transport is often combined with cartravel on ( P&R ) bustops and trainstations.
In general bus/train services depend on the route and time of day.
A bus/train line between 2 bigger cities also services the smaller bus/train stops in the small towns on the route.
Often those "middle in nowhere" stops are strategicly placed in a midpoint to serve several towns and villages surrounding it.
In very small comunities in some regions of our country side public transport can be challenging.
A driven by volunteers small community bus/taxiservice runs 1-2 times an hour on those very rural routes.
Those community busses have the same livery and have also a line number like normal public transport busses but have only 8 seats and are staffed and maintained by volunteers.
In the early, late and of hours a car is standing by for just service on demand.
I also drive as a volunteer with the community bus or my own car to uphold that service.
"this guy has been al over the Netherlands, thats insane" Made me chuckle hehehehe. You can do probably that in a day or 2. Experiencing it is a different story though.
This was after the island/farm part. There is also an island of the Netherlands that does not allow cars even. Just bikes, and walking.
Schiermonnikoog. Heerlijk daar! Snel weer eens naar toe!
I've seen pictures of cities in the US before car centric infrastructure was installed and it is a difference between night and day
I’ve seen some you tube videos on a channel called joe & nic’s road trip
While it’s not about travel infrastructure
I feel genuinely depressed watching it the state of some of these places
24:20 I remember inviting you to come over and visit! Next time skip Haarlem and the 'Randstad'. I'll give you a free tour around Giethoorn and other beautiful places near there!
No thx. Too much Asians who can’t controle a boat. 😂
@on-the-pitch-p3w 🤣
Ik kom uit de Achterhoek en heb gestudeerd. Gewoond in Zwolle en Groningen en op Texel. Nu in Leeuwarden.
Arme man.😂
Thank you.
I'd love to see you watching some videos from documentaries about 999/A&E etc in UK.. lots of great docs on here..
hey Ermelo..thats where I live. What a small world.
I lived there for about a year. On the Generaal Spoorkazerne, 176 zaucie. A very religious village with nice woodland.
@ yeah it’s a nice little town .. with all services you need
Ah Ermelo, the nice but boring village next to the town of Harderwijk 😋. The forest and heath land there are nice though!
12:07 A bus every 12 minutes in small town Netherlands? Haha, not even close. It's more like one bus every hour, if you're lucky.
where i live every 12 min, population of 1500. i live in the Netherlands, a place called Almen.
@@MrJankert64 I grew up in the Randstad, where the bus only comes once an hour. It's absolutely terrible-sometimes, due to a lack of available bus drivers, a service gets canceled and you have to wait two hours.
I wouldn't say busses are that great. It kinda depends on the area and between which places they run. if you're more in the Randstad area, 2 busses an hour is a pretty standard thing for towns. in more rural parts it's usually only 1 per hour.
True. But it's there. And in even more rural areas they have the 'belbus'. Still a lot better than the US. Having to drive in a car to the next decent size town to have acces to a not that fantastic public transportation system kinda defeats the purpose of public transport.
That said: cars are often very handy, more so in rural areas.
But having the option to safely use other modes of transportion too makes dutch transport very flexible and adjustable.
What are we (the Dutch) complaining about. Really love to see your enthusiasm!
It's a great video and I love your reaction to it. And being Dutch I would love to say: 'Yes, we are great. We built an amazing infrastructure.' But the reason why the infrastructure is like that, has nothing to do with our mindset. It has to do with how densely populated our country is. Yes, it is great that even a small town has great infrastructure for bicycles, but that is _because you can cycle to the next town easily_! If these cities were remote, no one would cycle here either.
Yes, we have some great infrastructure for cycling, but let's not make this about culture. It's just because our entire country would fit 12 times in the state of Texas. Even Florida is twice the size!
I travel from the eastern part of the country (by car) to the western part of the country just to have some coffee with family. It takes about 1,5 hours. That's half the time it takes to get from Houston to Austin!
So, yeah. I love my country, please come visit us. But don't put our infrastructure on a pedestal.
6:11 Amsterdam is a great place,i loved it. I went years sgo before Eurotunnel we flew for a long weekend. Holland is ideal for cycling because its soooo flat..
downside of that flatness is you have no where to hide from the wind.
and with The Netherlands being next to the North Sea, we get a lot of (strong) wind.
Happy greetings from Utrecht, do come back !
Well, in Europe, we drive car's, you guys drive huge pickups and co. Tinted windows are a no go for us. We look at traffic and bikers and pedestrians. Because we all are bikers and pedestrians! 😊
JOEL,,,,,, there’s a lesson here don’t you think. ✌✌✌✌✌✌🌳🌳🌳🌳❤🇳🇱
Haarlem is very nice. I think Leiden is similar but better, the latter is a University city. That makes a big difference in terms of culture, for example.
haarlem amsterdam was the first trainline in the netherlands since 1839 :)
Watching my country through the eyes of a North American makes me realise I never think about safety in trafic (or anywhere for that matter). Of course there are exceptions, but this is how it is in the whole country. I think that if you want to compare our coutry to the USA, you should think about it as a state, so a lot smaller, but then with a government that takes care of its citizens and regulates a lot of things.
There seems to be no root cause analysis here. the Netherlands has a population density of 1,346.8/sq mi and is the 32nd most densely populated country in the world. Canada has 10.9/sq mi and is 237 out of 248 countries. Even though it is tiny in comparison, it has nearly half the population as Canada. I live in Canada. We barely have sidewalks. We are lucky to drive on asphalt. It is not by some choice that we have not built roads and scheduled buses 5 times an hour.
Take restaurants for example; if you want to work in a restaurant anywhere in Europe, you may face multiple interviews. In the Americas, you just walk in and ask who is quitting today as there are not nearly enough people to wait tables, let alone drive every bus we would want to schedule.
There just are not enough people here.
The Netherlands is one of the best countries I have ever been born in
In Europe people work to enjoy life. In the USA you live to work (not always voluntarily). That's why cities in Europe are perhaps being made a little more livable?
If I have a favourite Dutch city, it must be Leiden. It's outdoor market is great, for example.
Except Zeeland and in particular Zeeuws Vlaanderen where it still sucks to get around without a car.
you ended the video of a view of the train station I use every day to get to work
18:16 canal tunnel, bro its a bridge.
Its just that dutch people are great organisers and they believe in a tradition that has no english explanation its called GEZELIGHETE IM SORRY IF I SPELT THAT WRONG but thats the discription of it basicly a kind of belief in making things comfortable for everybody especially the home and in winter or the cold or the many wet weeks were as in Australia there is were long hot summers ( not as long as years before though ) probably because of climate change that the summers started getting shorter and more cooler months started happening and we as kids and later as young people were allways at the beach or going for bush adventures I LOVE AUSTRALIA IT GOT INTO MY BLOOD ❤and i still hadnt seen all of it unfortunately i miss it ( i live in Indonesia 🇮🇩 now with my children and grandchildren) i love indonesia as well but in a different way thats all talk to you next time bye for now ❤🥰😍☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🩷🦘🦘🦘🙏🙏🙏
Gezelligheid?
I live in Haarlem, nice video
You’ve got to make this allowance though the Netherlands is a small plase not like say America or Australia where the distances are huge and its essentially a car 🚙 neccessay commodity without a car for instance in Australia your mostly stuck the distances between towns are not exactly close you cant compare it to holland impossible for instance if you want to go from Sydney to any of the other cities its a thousand kilometres easily you need serious transportation its no joke if you get stuck in isolated areas for instance thats the first lesson we learned when coming from the Netherlands to Australia in 1952 boy my mother thought she was in a kind of hell ( she got used to it though ) but i must say it took a while we as kids we loved it ( NO SHOES NEEDED ) on bare feet mostly except at school allthough my mother was horrified about the school kids in bare feet playing in the streets or in line going to a sports field in bare feet and she used to say those children must be very poor but that wasnt it it was a freedom we experienced it was really a great freedom we had as kids inthose early days in Australia i could write a book about the first years coming from the Netherlands to Australia by an old army retreaver boat it was rough a six week journey around Scotland accross the Atlantic and eventually hitting the bahamas and going through panama canal because the suez canal was blocked by war ( egypt and probably Israel ) but it couldv been any of the other arab countries anyway thats all theres a lot more but thats got nothing todo with the Netherlands really thanks for this video i never got to see too much of my own country at the age of nine so whatever iam seeing here in these videos about the Netherlands is very interesting and nostalgic ( we were too busy exploring Australia 😂😂😂🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘 thankyou you have a great 2025 wont you look after yourselves OK and there be peace and love for all 😍🥰🙏🙏🙏🥰💟☮️💟☮️💟☮️💟☮️❤️💛💙💜💚🩷💜🖤🩶🤎🩵💝
Alot of you need to understand that we as dutch people pay alot of taxes to keep the roads like this. ITS NOT FREE
So? You don't want to pay those taxes?
Having a crazy BIG army to "protect" the US ( as if 2 huge oceans aren't a protection on it's own) needs a LOT of taxmoney.
Meanwhile there is no money for the maintenance of roads, bridges or any kind of infrastructure in general.
Yes I was in the States.Yes it was car centric. But is the Netherlands better? Cycle infrastructure is nice, but not everywhere. Maybe in "The Randstad." But the rest?.... Public Transport, in my town every half hour. If your'e living in rural villages nearby every two hours. Going by bike? There is something as wind blowing ahead, the wind is blowing hard. I'm still happy to have my own car, like my neighbors.
I love my car, but I also love car-calming infrastructure. It's just the mindset and acceptance of driving around in a potential murder weapons - so while I still like to hit the gas on the highway - I yield and give deference to peds and cyclists and anyone outside my car alike.
My experience of congestion is less in the Netherlands than my experiences in the US, where gridlock is daily in many cities. ( where there are also a lot of completely clueless drivers). It's also nice to have 2 or 3 or 4 alternatives often. (Car, bike, shared scooter, walk, metro, bus)
I checked your Jutryp (fryslân) bus.
It is one bus every hour.
Not every 13 minutes.
It is 13 minutes to Sneek 😂😂😂
Not just bikes is a great channel. It´s kind of funny, that of all the countries I visited, the Netherlands are the only one that traumatized me -because I perceived it as incredibly ugly. As a child I visited Norway with my parents for a few weeks and on the way back we arrived in Amsterdam by direct ferry from Bergen (western Norway). The contrast of a calm country with beautyful landscape and all the mountains you could ask for to a flat place was just too much. Back then traffic was also nothing like the video showed it. And on the main car routes beutyful city centers would not have been noticable anyways. But the real problem was the flatnes. Well, the Netherlands fixed their infrastructure and the country is known for its ability to create new land. One day they will also engineer some vertical landscape and then even I can visit again ... ;-)
18:56 That town looks just like a soviet era east european city with some aint slapped on to it.
All those people from the countryside say: No don’t go to AMSTERDAM, come to our little village, that’s much nicer. 😂 So funny. ❤️❌❌❌
bus every 30 minutes during working hours, every 1 hour on off times is more the standard.
Plenty got hurt in the fireworks, and a few died because more and more people buy illegal fireworks that are bordering ordinary explosives and very dangerous. For this reason about half of the population wants a total ban, because in this current situation it's almost impossible for the police to enforce the law
Lent always was an independent village. Then the government decided that Nijmegen and Arnhem had to grow towards each other and form one big city. That did not work ! Two broad rivers Waal and Rhine in between, made for completely different mentalities. Apart from one being catholic and the other protestant. But the 'Waalsprong' = waal jump, went ahead and Lent was annexed and became Nijmegen. So vast surfaces of new infrastructure with newly built houses.
Staan de LENT(E)! narcissen nog steeds op de dijk in het voorjaar?
Werd er altijd zo vrolijk van als ik er langskwam met de trein.
@@dasja9966 Narcissen zie je inderdaad overal in het wild in het voorjaar ! Er is een stuk natuurgebied bewaard gebleven rond de noodzakelijke afwatering en verbinding met de Linge. Er is een wandel/fietspad aangelegd van de Waal over de Linge naar de Rijn, op de grens tussen Lent en Bemmel. Mooi aangelegd allemaal. Behalve een heel lelijk vd Valk hotel midden in Lent. Maar je kunt niet alles hebben.
❤ BEAUTIFUL love uit Nederland
Have to say... normal in a small village a bus comes 1 a hour
The one thing that I found immediately visible between NEDERLANDS,,, and CANADA, was the number of Trees 🌳
Its one of the major things that softens a hard landscape.