We’re so sorry about the audio. We were dealing with some pretty heavy rain at times, and that affected the recording. Definitely, definitely go to Kus van de Cactus! You won’t be disappointed!
@@spoonwinnipeg2021 Haha! I worked as a soundengineer in concerthall de Philharmonie (behind the Teylersmuseum) for 2,5 years. Never had any problems.😂❤❤
Two tips for visiting Haarlem next time. Go to the ‘DeDAKKAS’ on the roof of a parking garage in the city centre. GREAT VIEWS! (You can use the elevator of the parking garage, just go to the top floor. There is a restaurant there, but you can take in the views for free) One other thing is the JOPEN Kerk, which has a nice atmosphere and nice beers. (It is a beer brewery and bar) I don’t advice the restaurant in the top of Jopen kerk, just get some beers or do a lunch.
I came across this video by accident, I live in Haarlem and seeing your title about the best Mexican food I knew it had to be about Kus van de Cactus, I love their food! Great video.
Haarlem is nice! Those tacos look super-yummie 🙂 And I love scientific museums! Great to see you are such enthousiastic Holland -promotors 🙂 (Yes this is Noord-Holland ;) )
FYI: M.C. Escher used the beautiful chandeliers in the St. Bavo Church in a few of his drawings. And Hendrik Lorentz, who received the nobel price for physics in 1902 had his office in the Teylers museum. His science was instrumental for Einsteins relativity theory. And Einstein has said he saw him as his scientific father plus they were friends. Einstein was present during the funeral of Lorentz in Haarlem, and also met him in Leiden. (Einstein has applied for a job at the Leiden university, but they refused him…. OEPS!) When you travel from North Holland to Friesland across the afsluitdijk you will pass the Lorentz locks.
Great video again! Somehow I enjoy watching videos of the Netherlands shot by Americans better than the ones by the Dutch. You’re a lovely couple that bring a fresh look on the cities you visit. Thank you for showing me the country that I left some years ago 🙏
Haarlem is a kind of Amsterdam in miniature, but much more authentic. I am an Amsterdammer, but I like coming to Haarlem. Our eldest daughter now lives there in a nice apartment. She often goes downtown by bike. She loves Amsterdam, but is now getting to know Haarlem and is starting to appreciate the city. I know the city of Haarlem quite well. I worked there for more than 10 years in the center at Justice Haarlem. Lots of nice and good restaurants and cafes.
No worries about the audio I think we all knew it was the weather issue. It was wonderful! My daughter who lives in Rotterdam absolutely loves Mexican food so I hope we can find the time to go there when I am there.
Just reviewing this as my Dutch husband and I are planning an overnight in Haarlem next week, and he's very interested in the Teylers Museum you visited, though I want to first take him to one of my favourite coffee/cafés, the Brasserie de Paris and then Corrie ten Boom museum. I've been before, and my mother even met Corrie back when she was doing her touring, but my husband's never been. I thought it an up-close-and-personal view of how it was for Jews in hiding during WWII - less touristy than the Anne Frank house. And the Kus van Cactus looks yummy, but we've already booked an Indonesian dinner with 30% discount. I do plan to check out the Mexican restaurant one day, though. Cheers
Yeah, that room in the back of the Museum made a big impression on me when I visited as a child. A big contributing factor was that, in the middle of the city, with at that time far more loud car traffic than today, it was serenely quiet. Growing up in the city, there was never a quiet moment, even at night cats would pass in the street I lived in, painting lights on the ceiling of my attic bedroom (as the curtains didn't quite close. At one time I turned the room into a Camera Obscura by closing off the window with some boards with a little hole in one of them.)
Haarlem station is quite unique. On the south (city) side of platform 1 there may still be the living room of what I suppose used to be the station masters home. Then there are all the tiles and mosaics, and even stained glass windows. You were getting your coffee from the third class waiting room. In contrast, the space labelled 'first class' is very barren. I always found that a weird contrast. There used to be, and might still be, the original restrooms at the end of the platform, labelled Daames and Heeren, in old-fashioned spelling.
One of my eldest friends got married in the Bavo church;-) 15 years ago already... time flies! As a kid I was so scared in churches because of the graves. Still creeps me out having to walk on them, silly but true! Haarlem also has a museum of the mind (museum van de geest/het Dolhuys), all about psychiatric treatments 16th century and beyond. It's small so interesting for a little visit when you're in Haarlem and want to do several things. As for shopping I would always go to a smaller city and avoid places like Den Haag/Rotterdam/Utrecht etc, because the experience is much better. Amersfoort is nice as well, as is Haarlem, but Deventer (yes, there she goes again;-) is well-known for all its specialty stores, so that would be a typical shopping destination as well. They even have a store with stuff for dachshund needs! Enjoy your week.❣
You are amazing at presenting these beautiful cities. These cities look very gezellig and you give little history lessons along the way. Very professional. Best RUclips couple in the world. ❤️❤️❤️
I think it may even be the oldest. Amsterdam-Haarlem was the first train-line in our country. I'm quite sure that line predates Amsterdam Centraal Station by a few decades so Haarlem station could be the oldest station still in use.
You could have come a few days later and had cake... the 23d of November is Haarlems 777th birthday (since getting city rights) so there is free cake at the Noord-Holland Archief in the centre :)
It's funny seeing you two trot down the same route I took only two weeks ago, my first trip outside Leiden in years, visiting my school reunion. That Saturday was a lot more sunny and crowded, though. And for some reason people walking around as characters from Alice in Wonderland.
If you guys love beautiful old train stations, you should visit Groningen as well. Their train station has many times won the title of most beautiful train station of the Netherlands. And the city of Groningen itself is also definitely worth the visit. And no I am not from Groningen who thinks his city is the best, but I did visit it a lot by myself in the past😁.
@@TAndTGoDutch Yeah and you will have fun with your museumcard over there. But when you are so far up north, you could also combine it ( just make it a weekend/ Northern citytrip haha) with visiting Leeuwarden. This capital of Fryslan, which is more or less the same size as Leiden, has multiple musea and also an former prison of centuries old, which houses a variety of places like a hostel, city-library, restaurants and galleries.
I love Haarlem :) I'll definitely try de Kus van de Cactus some time as I'm pretty sure I've never had anything that can be described as authentic Mexican food so far 😅
At Teyler’s Museum they once electrocuted a cow with a machine that could generate electricity. King Louis Bonaparte of Holland (the brother of the famous Napoleon) visited the museum and wanted to see the machine in action. Rather gruesome event. But then again cattle still gets slaughtered in the same way so wel can eat juicy burgers.
Good Mexican food. We need that in the Netherlands! I wanna try it soooo bad! I’ve had it, but don’t know if it was any good, because I have no reference.😢
There’s a few places around, you just have to look for them. There’s a great Facebook group called “Mexican, Mexicali, and Tex-Mex in The Netherlands.” There’s always great recommendations on there!
We’re so sorry about the audio. We were dealing with some pretty heavy rain at times, and that affected the recording. Definitely, definitely go to Kus van de Cactus! You won’t be disappointed!
When I worked building event stages for concerts I've learned one thing: You never, ever mention sound issues. It's like standing in full knights armor, holding an iron flagpole, on a mountain, during a once in a 1000 year thunderstorm while cursing all the gods. It never ends well. 🙂
maybe try visiting deventer, i think it is one of the most beautiful cities in the netherlands, has many medieval buildings left in the dutch architecture style.
Oh, Haarlem, Woestenburg shoe repair, and should you be in the market for a pair of bespoke shoes, same address just one floor up. Brand name is Duyf and they do sell a series of shoes which are factory made, the colours are ready up to you. And yes, I do have, eh, several of them, including a bespoke pair. Honestly I do like them just on expensive side as shoe go...
So I’ll be therein Rotterdam next week to spend holidays with my daughter’s family, she married a Dutch guy, so would you be open to coming to visit us while I’m ther from Seattle? I’ll be there till 12/14.
Being buried inside a church was only for the financially privileged (and everybody knew people would be walking over their tomb. It seems you could smell people were buried there, hence the expression ‘rijke stinkerds’ = stinky rich.
Wait till you tell them dogs and cats did their thing there, too, back in the early days. Church was a common place for literally everyone, lest you were buried there 😉
We aren’t visiting. We live here in The Netherlands. So, no, not weird. We’ve eaten plenty of Dutch food in our time here, so excuse us for wanting a change of pace.
Haarlem should be haunted a lot as thousends died during the 80 years war . siege of Haarlem well worth to read up on as the streets ,spaarne river and canals . where filled with decapitated rebels and bound and drowned rebels and citizens . a city drowned in blood .
We’re so sorry about the audio. We were dealing with some pretty heavy rain at times, and that affected the recording.
Definitely, definitely go to Kus van de Cactus! You won’t be disappointed!
It must be the town.... actually funny if a bit embarrassing. Water does that to microphones.
Lol, @chubby moth! It’s pretty comical indeed. Good to know we’re still human and capable of making mistakes. 😂
Maybe microphones don't work in Haarlem. You're 0 for 2. Haha
No worries! Rain is good! Magical and cosy when you're inside and it's tickling the windows.😉
@@spoonwinnipeg2021 Haha! I worked as a soundengineer in concerthall de Philharmonie (behind the Teylersmuseum) for 2,5 years. Never had any problems.😂❤❤
Two tips for visiting Haarlem next time. Go to the ‘DeDAKKAS’ on the roof of a parking garage in the city centre. GREAT VIEWS! (You can use the elevator of the parking garage, just go to the top floor. There is a restaurant there, but you can take in the views for free)
One other thing is the JOPEN Kerk, which has a nice atmosphere and nice beers. (It is a beer brewery and bar) I don’t advice the restaurant in the top of Jopen kerk, just get some beers or do a lunch.
I came across this video by accident, I live in Haarlem and seeing your title about the best Mexican food I knew it had to be about Kus van de Cactus, I love their food! Great video.
Thanks for your kind words, Sandy! Kus van de cactus is so yummy!
Haarlem is nice! Those tacos look super-yummie 🙂 And I love scientific museums! Great to see you are such enthousiastic Holland -promotors 🙂 (Yes this is Noord-Holland ;) )
FYI: M.C. Escher used the beautiful chandeliers in the St. Bavo Church in a few of his drawings. And Hendrik Lorentz, who received the nobel price for physics in 1902 had his office in the Teylers museum. His science was instrumental for Einsteins relativity theory. And Einstein has said he saw him as his scientific father plus they were friends.
Einstein was present during the funeral of Lorentz in Haarlem, and also met him in Leiden. (Einstein has applied for a job at the Leiden university, but they refused him…. OEPS!) When you travel from North Holland to Friesland across the afsluitdijk you will pass the Lorentz locks.
Great video again! Somehow I enjoy watching videos of the Netherlands shot by Americans better than the ones by the Dutch. You’re a lovely couple that bring a fresh look on the cities you visit. Thank you for showing me the country that I left some years ago 🙏
@David C. W. Thanks for your kindness, we appreciate you watching.
@Richard Theemling, thanks for your feedback. Hope you feel better now.
Hi guys, nice to see you enjoy Haarlem so much. Have you already been to the Frans Hals museum? He was one of the great painters of the golden age.
Hello! We haven’t made it to the Frans Hals museum yet, but it’s certainly on our agenda for our next Haarlem visit. Thank you so much for watching!
Haarlem is a kind of Amsterdam in miniature, but much more authentic. I am an Amsterdammer, but I like coming to Haarlem. Our eldest daughter now lives there in a nice apartment. She often goes downtown by bike. She loves Amsterdam, but is now getting to know Haarlem and is starting to appreciate the city. I know the city of Haarlem quite well. I worked there for more than 10 years in the center at Justice Haarlem. Lots of nice and good restaurants and cafes.
Haarlem is amsterdam if it wouldnt have been overflooded with tourists...
No worries about the audio I think we all knew it was the weather issue. It was wonderful! My daughter who lives in Rotterdam absolutely loves Mexican food so I hope we can find the time to go there when I am there.
Just reviewing this as my Dutch husband and I are planning an overnight in Haarlem next week, and he's very interested in the Teylers Museum you visited, though I want to first take him to one of my favourite coffee/cafés, the Brasserie de Paris and then Corrie ten Boom museum. I've been before, and my mother even met Corrie back when she was doing her touring, but my husband's never been. I thought it an up-close-and-personal view of how it was for Jews in hiding during WWII - less touristy than the Anne Frank house. And the Kus van Cactus looks yummy, but we've already booked an Indonesian dinner with 30% discount. I do plan to check out the Mexican restaurant one day, though. Cheers
Yeah, that room in the back of the Museum made a big impression on me when I visited as a child. A big contributing factor was that, in the middle of the city, with at that time far more loud car traffic than today, it was serenely quiet. Growing up in the city, there was never a quiet moment, even at night cats would pass in the street I lived in, painting lights on the ceiling of my attic bedroom (as the curtains didn't quite close. At one time I turned the room into a Camera Obscura by closing off the window with some boards with a little hole in one of them.)
I was in Harlaam a couple weeks ago and just did Italian. I'll go again soon and try this place.
Very nice upload! Ill keep watching! :):)
Haarlem station is quite unique. On the south (city) side of platform 1 there may still be the living room of what I suppose used to be the station masters home.
Then there are all the tiles and mosaics, and even stained glass windows.
You were getting your coffee from the third class waiting room. In contrast, the space labelled 'first class' is very barren. I always found that a weird contrast.
There used to be, and might still be, the original restrooms at the end of the platform, labelled Daames and Heeren, in old-fashioned spelling.
One of my eldest friends got married in the Bavo church;-) 15 years ago already... time flies! As a kid I was so scared in churches because of the graves. Still creeps me out having to walk on them, silly but true!
Haarlem also has a museum of the mind (museum van de geest/het Dolhuys), all about psychiatric treatments 16th century and beyond. It's small so interesting for a little visit when you're in Haarlem and want to do several things.
As for shopping I would always go to a smaller city and avoid places like Den Haag/Rotterdam/Utrecht etc, because the experience is much better. Amersfoort is nice as well, as is Haarlem, but Deventer (yes, there she goes again;-) is well-known for all its specialty stores, so that would be a typical shopping destination as well. They even have a store with stuff for dachshund needs!
Enjoy your week.❣
The 2nd Bavo church is worth visiting aswell, more beautyfull on the outside and also close to the heart of Haarlem.
You are amazing at presenting these beautiful cities. These cities look very gezellig and you give little history lessons along the way. Very professional. Best RUclips couple in the world. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, Michel! We appreciate your kindness!
My hometown!
Very nice vlog, Haarlem has one of the oldest train stations and when you go on a Saturday there is a very nice market!
I think it may even be the oldest. Amsterdam-Haarlem was the first train-line in our country. I'm quite sure that line predates Amsterdam Centraal Station by a few decades so Haarlem station could be the oldest station still in use.
You could have come a few days later and had cake... the 23d of November is Haarlems 777th birthday (since getting city rights) so there is free cake at the Noord-Holland Archief in the centre :)
You will like the food at Cucaracha also! In Zwolle, which is recommended anyway 😊
Ooh! We’ll have to check that out!
Gezellig Haarlem! I will definitely go to Kus from the Cactus and try the queso fundido. That sounds just amazing.
It's funny seeing you two trot down the same route I took only two weeks ago, my first trip outside Leiden in years, visiting my school reunion. That Saturday was a lot more sunny and crowded, though. And for some reason people walking around as characters from Alice in Wonderland.
If you guys love beautiful old train stations, you should visit Groningen as well. Their train station has many times won the title of most beautiful train station of the Netherlands. And the city of Groningen itself is also definitely worth the visit. And no I am not from Groningen who thinks his city is the best, but I did visit it a lot by myself in the past😁.
Groningen is absolutely on our wishlist to visit. Thank you so much for the recommendation!
@@TAndTGoDutch Yeah and you will have fun with your museumcard over there. But when you are so far up north, you could also combine it ( just make it a weekend/ Northern citytrip haha) with visiting Leeuwarden. This capital of Fryslan, which is more or less the same size as Leiden, has multiple musea and also an former prison of centuries old, which houses a variety of places like a hostel, city-library, restaurants and galleries.
Teylers museum is actually one of the oldest museums in the world!!! Not just the oldest museum in The Netherlands.
Oh wow, we didn’t know that, thanks!
Lovely filming; enjoyed the day out with you! ❤
Thank you so much for watching, Ingrid!
I love Haarlem :) I'll definitely try de Kus van de Cactus some time as I'm pretty sure I've never had anything that can be described as authentic Mexican food so far 😅
The fundido looks so good. I’m so hungry right now 😅
At Teyler’s Museum they once electrocuted a cow with a machine that could generate electricity. King Louis Bonaparte of Holland (the brother of the famous Napoleon) visited the museum and wanted to see the machine in action. Rather gruesome event. But then again cattle still gets slaughtered in the same way so wel can eat juicy burgers.
For Leiden's big square, you will have to go to Amsterdam (Leidseplein) 😆😆
The most beautiful station of the Netherlands is the one in Groningen
Nice! We’ll have to check that out!
Good Mexican food. We need that in the Netherlands! I wanna try it soooo bad! I’ve had it, but don’t know if it was any good, because I have no reference.😢
There’s a few places around, you just have to look for them. There’s a great Facebook group called “Mexican, Mexicali, and Tex-Mex in The Netherlands.” There’s always great recommendations on there!
@@TAndTGoDutch wow, thanx!
Nice!👍😉
I had never heard of Kus van de Cactus. Now I NEED to go!
The audio is pretty bad for me though :( It made some parts a bit hard to follow.
We’re so sorry about the audio. We were dealing with some pretty heavy rain at times, and that affected the recording.
Definitely, definitely go to Kus van de Cactus! You won’t be disappointed!
When I worked building event stages for concerts I've learned one thing: You never, ever mention sound issues. It's like standing in full knights armor, holding an iron flagpole, on a mountain, during a once in a 1000 year thunderstorm while cursing all the gods. It never ends well. 🙂
Hahahaha. Very well.
Do you know that there is a Museum jaarkaart, free entrance for most musea in the Netherlands. Cost 64,95 for 1 year , you will find info on Google
Yep, we actually mention it in the video! Our museumkaarts are well-used.
Best town in the world
Great day in Harlem, eh I mean Haarlem 😉👍
maybe try visiting deventer, i think it is one of the most beautiful cities in the netherlands, has many medieval buildings left in the dutch architecture style.
Yes but do not forget Zutphen , a bit smaller but much more attractive because of more late authentik medieval buildings
Yeah, Kus van de Cactus is the best Mex in town!
Agreed! Zo lekker!
Oh, Haarlem, Woestenburg shoe repair, and should you be in the market for a pair of bespoke shoes, same address just one floor up. Brand name is Duyf and they do sell a series of shoes which are factory made, the colours are ready up to you.
And yes, I do have, eh, several of them, including a bespoke pair. Honestly I do like them just on expensive side as shoe go...
You sound even more husky than your dog! 😄
Lol.
So I’ll be therein Rotterdam next week to spend holidays with my daughter’s family, she married a Dutch guy, so would you be open to coming to visit us while I’m ther from Seattle? I’ll be there till 12/14.
Have you been in Amersfoort?
We haven’t! We’re hoping to visit soon, though.
Looking at the city center from above you can sort of seeing the Apple logo! 😜 But much older! Did Apple steel that !?
Surely it's " under renovation " not construction.It has already been constructed.
Okay, thanks.
@@TAndTGoDutch does that make sense lol
Again forgot the Frans Hals museum famous Dutch painter.
We talk about it at the end, actually, but no, it was not on our agenda for that day.
Always nice to see my hometown. Frans Hals museum definitely a visit worth.
Next time, for sure!
9-12-22 till 11-12-22 biggest Christmas Markt of The Netherlands in Haarlem. But will be very busy.
Was it today?
Sunday 20 november?
No, we were there this past Friday, 18 November!
Being buried inside a church was only for the financially privileged (and everybody knew people would be walking over their tomb. It seems you could smell people were buried there, hence the expression ‘rijke stinkerds’ = stinky rich.
Wait till you tell them dogs and cats did their thing there, too, back in the early days. Church was a common place for literally everyone, lest you were buried there 😉
Its weird to go to a Mexican restaurant when you visit The Netherlands!
Go eat in a dutch restrant !
We aren’t visiting. We live here in The Netherlands. So, no, not weird. We’ve eaten plenty of Dutch food in our time here, so excuse us for wanting a change of pace.
trainstation of groningen is also very beautiful or Den Haag HS.
Haarlem should be haunted a lot as thousends died during the 80 years war . siege of Haarlem well worth to read up on as the streets ,spaarne river and canals . where filled with decapitated rebels and bound and drowned rebels and citizens . a city drowned in blood .
We will definitely be looking that up. Wow! Thanks for the information