A tragic day that affected my family. 

Dad is the prime example of a dad. Daughter has driven alone for a few years around the globe. Dad just a few miles from home: " you know how to get back?"

So cute: "Do you know how to get back?" She that has been all over the world. ♥️

Your Dad and I were born in the same year. He should be proud of the daughter he has raised and how she is educating the world...

Dear mr and mrs itchy boots, thank you a thousand times for Noraly!

Daughter is always near to the father's heart. Thanks for showing your parents.!! Your country is as beautiful as you are..!!

This must be an incredible Father to raise such an independent, adventurous, and brave Daughter. My hat is off to him.

Thank you for taking me a around the world and showing me things I will never see in my lifetime with my own eyes

9:48 I don't think I've ever heard a cuter "Hi" from a kid ❤️

Dad to Noraly - "do you know how to drive back? " That's love for daughter. Even though she has explored world on bike all alone. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Enjoyed very much hearing this part of Dutch history. I was nine years old so I was not aware of this at all as I didn’t read the news in the United States. On a personal note, my parents and I toured Europe in 1963. My father’s parents immigrated to the United States from Germany and he was raised speaking Platt Deutsch (Spelling?), The northern German dialect. While in the Netherlands he heard people speaking in the booth behind us in a restaurant and was absolutely amazed that he could understand most of what they were saying. When he got up to ask them what language they were speaking, they laughed and said Dutch as we were in the Netherlands! If he spoke slowly and so did the people who spoke Dutch, he had no trouble getting us through the Netherlands. I am now 76 years young since my recent birthday and no words can describe the joy I get from following your travels.

Brings back memories for me. My first visit to the Netherlands was with my parents. My father grew up in Willemstad. I have a picture of him at the highest point in his village pointing to the high water mark from that flood. My Opa’s house and the town was under water. After the war, then flood, my Opa and Oma sold everything they had and moved their family - immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada. My parents met here. My mom’s family immigrated around the same time to Ontario. It’s ironic how they needed to move half was across the world to meet when they only lived a short distance away in Holland. If they would have stayed, they would have never met. My father was on a journey from NS, heading west to BC. He met my mom in Ontario and his journey ended. I have since taken my kids back (with my mom) to the same spots so they could get a sense of where their Opa and Oma are from.

I am an 87 year old arm chair tourist. My condolence to you & your parents what a tragedy. Thanks for showing me around your beautiful country. What a wonderful feat of engineering the Dutch people did a marvelous job in reclaiming the land from the sea. I have being binge watching your videos and admire your courage. Your photography and drone shots are stunning. Kept up the good work and looking forward to your next adventure. from Ontario Canada

There are two kinds of ambassadors in this world. There are ambassadors that are assigned by governments. Then, there are ambassadors who are what they are by their lived experience and work. What is an ambassador? An ambassador is a person who performs a desperately needed and fundamental function: Connecting us all. Connecting humans by creating awareness of who we are and what do as people. Noraly, you're an ambassador. The motorcycle is incidental to what you do. And you do it naturally and with compelling freshness and honesty and wholesomeness. Do you know what is the functional opposite of a bomb strike? The impact of a woman who presents a culture or people in a positive and empathetic light - who connects people in a way that moves us to experience each other as brother and sisters. Listen: I had lots of schooling. I never learned and appreciated so much about the Netherlands and your struggles with water. Never in my life. And I learned about it through your wonderful family. A father and mother that I know are proud of you. You see, people best experience and appreciate history and geography and culture through the lens of people. People like you. Your problem is this: There’s more precious work needed connecting people in this troubled world then you have tires to travel. I love your videos. I thank you for your work. You have a gift. Your work is just that: hard work! But anyone can see that you’ve got a gift in this most needed profession. This ain’t National Geographic. This is Itchy Boots! Stay safe and stay excellent.

Mum filming Noraly at the beginning + Mum/Dad: "You know how to ride back?". 😉 This reminds me of my parents. They are the same everywhere! 😎

As I've said before, you're such a good teacher. [And that from a teacher with 30 years under his belt]. Your explanations are so clear and informative, and the drone footage made your "lesson" easy to follow, on top of being just beautiful. As others have said, you've become quite the professional videographer, all the more impressive as yours don't have that slick, "canned" feel to them. It's just you being Noraly/Itchy Boots that we've come to know and love. Professional and personal in perfect balance. You're a treasure.

I am just viewing some of the older videos now. After watching 100% of S5 and S6, then many misc others, how wonderful you had your parents on as the more I learn about you, the more I have been wondering about who your parents are. They have to be so proud of you. Your list of personal strengths is long but being a teacher is up there towards the top! I have learned so much history and geology from you in just a short time not to mention the many other topics you cover. It is so addicting. Thank you for being a shining light we all need. ❤❤

The Netherlands has always been a country I have loved and admired, it's really nice to get this insight into the history and the workings of the country very good videos and very informative.

Liked before I watched, you know it will be good!!. Your Dad loves you so much, He held your hand, as a proud Dad does as you said good bye!! Thanks to all for the history lesson. You are doing GREAT!!.

I'm so glad you are still doing local content while at home, you are not just riding around, you give history and facts that many motovloggers lack while driving around! Love the documentary style your videos are evolving into, so much growth and entertainment! Keep up the great work!! ♥️ it!

Today it was 70 years ago. Thanks for making this video, because we should not forget what this disaster meant and still means to our country

Very interesting to see the place that gave my country its name, greetings from New Zealand!

Fantastic drone footage, history and great engineering explained as well as family insights, perfect. Cheers from Hamburg, Jürgen

my parents both were involved those years as volunteers to help with what they were tasked to, they were those years 13 and 12 years old, my grandfather was a fireman those years, and was deployed to do rescues and recoveries. We still have a book at home about that tragedy. Good to hear my birth language in your video!!

As a fellow Dutchie I really enjoyed this video! Good to get a history update once in a while. Funny to hear you speak with your father with a bit of an accent. I haven't heard it when you talk with other dutch people in your videos.

Fascinating, but tragic! Thanks so much for showing us this incredible engineering, your beautiful country and your lovely parents! Hopefully we'll hear some stories from your shy mom during you're time at home.

Thankyou for sharing that, my parents have both gone now and l wish l had paid more attention to thier stories. My dad was a policeman and rescued people in the 1953 flood. Best wishes Alex, norfolk uk

A big hello to your parents. They did a fantastic job of supporting their daughter thru her formative years so she could become the optimistic and self assured person she is today. Thanks, Ronn

In basic school we've learned a bit about the struggle from the Dutch people against the water but in this 18 minutes video I learned more about it than I did all those years ago. We can see you put a lot of research in your video's. Love to see more of those. So sorry to hear about the loss of family in 1953.

I've spent most of my life working on flood defences in the East of England and we have often asked the Dutch for advice! I'm very familiar with the coast around Holland and have sailed into many of these places. Just lovely.

You have a beautiful family and country. Sorry for the tragedy. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks Noraly - it reminds me of my first trip to Holland on a school journey from the UK in 1963. We stayed in Wijk-an-Zee and toured around the country taking in the kind of sights that you've shown. We also had a family holiday at a beach resort near Zandvoort a few years ago. The 1953 floods badly affected the east coast of England also which are well documented. Love Holland and keenly follow all of your adventures. Ride safely!

So the whole world has come to a stop and Noraly smiles and says "OK, let's go!" To all the grump people out there, cheerfulness is a choice!

Hi Noraly - Thank you for this very interesting video. At 9:04, I got a kick out of your dad’s typical dad comment of could you ‘find your way back’. You traveled all over the ‘ztans’ and India, the Mid East and parts of South America - alone - and he was concerned if you could find your way. ;-) As a dad who has made similar comments to my sons, I loved it. Thank you and ride safe.

As a Belgian we have heard about these things in school, one lesson, holland and the water stuff but to see it all so close up and with some real family history, GREAT content! thanks for sharing Noraly!

The difference between this video and your other videos is that there is a lovely personal touch to it - a glimpse into your family history - I thoroughly enjoyed it. I understand why you keep the personal out of most of your videos but there are times when I would like to see more about what got you to this point in your life - who are you and what makes you tick. Your videos have been very professional (in my opinion) for a very long time and I have to be honest, I could not really see what was so different about this particular one but then I have never edited a video and have not got the faintest idea what that means. The engineering was so impressive.

My Grandfather emigrated to Canada in approximately 1914. Though we never spoke of it I think he may have felt the wars coming and decided to get away. I’ve always felt a strong connection to the Netherlands and when I stumbled onto this channel, I was immediately HOOKED on the wonderful stories and travels Noraly provides for us. Remarkable how hearing her speak English with the Dutch accent so reminded me of my Grandfathers voice. I look forward to visiting the Netherlands before I fall off the twig !

I thought I knew a reasonable amount about post WW2 history, but I did not know about this tragic episode. This was a most informative and enjoyable video Noraly. On a lighter note, while at a fuel station the other day a young girl (about 8) noticed one of your stickers on my bike. She was jumping up and down shouting 'Noraly Noraly!' According to her Dad she is a massive fan of yours and watches your videos with him when they are not out on his GS! See, you bring joy to all ages! Atb.

That was really wonderful, Noraly. A bit of personal touch too. Great energy as always. Keep going and be safe.

Both my parents immigrated to Canada before the flood of '53. However, all their family members (my aunts, uncles, and cousins) remained. On my dad's side at Axel, on my mother's side in the de biesbosch, Dordrecht, Werkendam. They endured much hardship. Thank you for the informative review of the flood and what the folks in the Netherlands have done to protect themselves. I've visited the Netherlands many times but found this video excellent. My dad spoke dutch to me when I was a kid, however, I'm not around many dutch folks where I live (Kentucky), but I found that I could understand/follow some of the dutch being spoken. Enjoyed reminiscing.

Brought tears to my eyes, your grandfather was a strong loving, caring man! And I am the same age as your father, he is a lovely man, he loves his daughter too, as I have one daughter of four children! Thank you for sharing this closeness you have with your parents!! Your mother was filing you as you arrived!! I am an engineer so I appreciate the barriers you showed us!! Thanks for your drone videos!!

Fascinating, think you’ve found your next project a detailed travel/history of the country’s you visit 👍😎

I am touched by the love and affection of your parents.You are a blessed child to be born in such a nice family in a beautiful country.This episode is a tribute to Dutch engineering. Looking forward to many more interesting episodes from you, Noraly. All the best to you.

This young lady's videos are so brilliantly produced, great composition, music and photography. What a talent!

In 1953, I was twelve (12) years old, and I remember without the details reading about this disaster, and later reading one or more National Geographic Magazine articles about the storm and the efforts to rebuild and upgrade Holland's sea flood protection infrastructure.

Although I'm missing the travels through South America on your way to Alaska , it's so interesting to visit your country with you. I'm completely amazed at the engineering that they came up with to save this part of your beautiful country. Being from the States along the Mississippi River I believe we could learn a thing or three from the Dutch. Flooding here is an every year occurrence. Thanks for the tour

One of the most relaxing channels with rich contents i always watch at least one of your videos every night before i go to sleep SO wishing you all the best and long life kind lady. (From other side of planet AFGHANISTAN)

I've been watching you off and on for sometime going to countries all around the world I just realised I don't know much about your home country but now I know about your proud dad sad family history and the country of Holland thanks for this🇳🇱🇯🇲😎👍

As a New Zealander, it's great to see some of the "original". I can understand the naming. Lovely country!

That was fascinating, thank you Noraly. I was in Rotterdam with a theatre group and rock band in the early 1970s. We played all over Holland and also appeared on tv. We came from Bath in England xxx

The love in your fathers eyes when he saw you was golden!! And also a huge thank you for another great lesson in history and culture! Your attitude and presence is captivating. vriendelijk bedankt Noraly! All the love and well being from Finland! - Perttu

Wow a history lesson in the country of your birth. And seeing your parents and the background music to views of where you are high up with the drone were quite great, along with the scenery.

I love The Netherlands above all and cry from my deepest soul each time I see this lovely land and hear her lively language. Dank je wel!

Hi Noraly! A very interesting video indeed. I was sorry to hear of your family tragedy so many years ago. The sheer scale of the engineering that has since taken place to protect the lowlands is quite astonishing! Thanks for sharing this bit of your country's history with us. Looking forward, as always, to your next video! Ride safe and stay safe!

It's nice to meet your parents norali ❤

What a treat to see you and your folks together and all talking in your own language. Charming. And then there is the serious side of the conversation relating the events of 1953. Wow. Our Southern Ontario Hurricane Hazel came one year later in the fall of 1954. Still remembered because Hurricanes are a Very rare event here in Ontario. Such an interesting episode. And seeing the big caissons with your drone... how they drifted out of line and then got stuck in time. Great stuff.

"You kow how to drive back?" Your father asked you during farewell. That was the nicest moment, made tears in my eyes. He was instinctly doing his best to help and protect you asking that otherwise regular question what in your case, after going around the world with your motorbike sounded so special. Congratulation for your jurney and family, and thank you for the nice times wachting your videos. Cheers.

Nice to meet your Mum and Dad, and learn some history from Dad's encyclopedic knowledge. Love the way he checked if you know how to get back after you've been around the world alone so much !!!!

I enjoy your happy intros into your videos: "Good morning Internet." Good morning Noraly. :-)

Thank you for sharing your family s Tail. And your wonderful country

Hi Noraly, Thankyou for the very comprehensive explanation of how the Netherlands are protected. My Opa and Oma left the Netherlands post the first world war and moved to South Africa where my mother was born, and where I was born. I am now living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia and have never seen the extent of engineering that protects the low lands, and as an engineer I must say it is amazing. Love all your videos and travels, come visit us one day again. Allan Reynolds.

Say thanks to the parents that they have such a wonderful interesting beautiful daughter👍👍👍

I thouht that was so funny when Dad asked if you knew your way back!!

Your parents are so sweet, no wonder they have a daughter like you!

Hi Noraly, I just found your video showing Delta works, this reminds me when I studied in Holland more than 40 years ago studying hydrology in Delft. Thanks for sharing...

Great job with this “documentary style” episode Noraly! Your story line, content, editing and overall production is very well done. Lots of interesting history and facts, I’m sure it must have been a bit emotional for you to see the family gravestones related to that tragedy. Thank you for including footage of the homes & towns, it’s so refreshing to see how clean and pretty all the areas are in the Netherlands and the architecture is so beautiful! Congratulations on this excellent episode & keep them coming! 😎👍🏍

Another fascinating Vlog Noraly, thank you (and your Dad) for sharing your family history with us. And for showing us more of the fantastic countryside where you live :) Keep it up please

Hello... Wow... I'm very impressed with the engieering .., and even more impressed with you sharing your life and family history with us. Thank you, thank you, thank you...Good job with the cameras and the editing. You, your mum and dad are superstars !!! Blijf veilig tijdens uw reizen !!! :-)

Every time we are going to Holland, I 'm in admiration of those fences, the political decisions and the engineering that made this possible. It means to me that human being, when of good will, can make miracles for the benefit of all. How many countries in the world can achieve this?? Not so many, I'm afraid....

by the way, thank your father from your fans... he gave us you great vids, keep posting!

Adds Canadian Love and solidarity! We Canadians have a special relationship with the Dutch -- as I have discovered over the years! :-)

I watched this again as I was discussing Dutch history with a friend. Thank you Noraly.

Hey Noraly, I’m from south Belgium and was born in 53. As a Child I heard about the big floodings in the Netherlands. I’ve been in Zeeland several times for holidays, but never seen the entire anti flooding works. Very interresting vidéo. Thanks. John

Wow - that video simply flew by - fascinating! I was only 1 1/2 years old when that flood happened, but I asked mom. She remembers hearing about it on the radio and in the newspaper. (We were in rural Kentucky, USA at that time). Your explanations of the dams is so interesting. We humans can come up with some pretty fantastic feats of engineering. This is right up there with Norway's mad skills at blasting through entire mountain ranges. (Bit of the opposite problem for The Netherlands)! And the, some ancient by now, terraced mountainsides to grow rice, etc. I'm going to look up a couple of the storm surge structures you mentioned to figure out why the water doesn't just find another route. Not all of them appeared to have berms to hold the water. Obviously something is there. Thank you so much! The personal touch with your dad, hearing his stories, seeing where your people lived...and died...makes it ever so much 'closer to home'. And gorgeous drone footage, as always. I also really enjoyed hearing the Dutch conversation. Definitely some "freebie" words in there because they sound like the German word, but not even close to enough words to just rock over from German into Dutch. :D

Your "Let's go" always give me a reason to smile...luv it😍

Thank you for your very interesting episodes: my husband and I love watching and learning about your travels. We live the Channel Islands.

Thanks a lot! Greeting from Kiyv, Ukraine!

Being from South Africa and able to speak Afrikaans i can actually follow Dutch. Stay safe Dude

That was an amazing trip around your country today. Incredible history and very informative. I'm ready for the next one! "Let's go!"

This hit home. In August 1955 a flood wiped out my town. Turns out dad & me are about the same age, so my daughter is close to Noraly's age. I worry about both of these young ladies, but remind myself that 'worry is interest paid on trouble before it becomes due'.

wow, Thank you for sharing this bit of Dutch history. I also enjoyed hearing you and your father speak in your language. I love hearing different languages I enjoyed this a lot.

Just watched your current South African trip which I'm enjoying as I was there 2 years back and loved it, plus also saw your your escape from Bolivia from Ep 72 (wow stressful) and somehow just stumbled across your Netherlands flood barrier vids .........all absolutely marvellous. The latter I loved your technical info, so not lost on me (and I'm sure others). Will definitely follow your new vids and catch up on your old. Excellent!!!

My condolences to your family, and your dad who appears to be in good shape. I bet he is the one who told you to get back up if you fall down. It is always good when you have family support, because we all have the ability to do whatever we set our minds to do no matter how many barriers stand in our way. The hardest struggles in life will always be those barriers we try to cross.

I was a big WW2 history nut. Amazing stories. Great Dad and your a wonderful person in the netherlands or any continent.

Hi I am from New Zealand:). Able Tasman was dutch and discovered some parts of New Zealand. I could tell you had good parents by your adventurous and brave spirit. It was lovely to meet them

Ha, it’s delightful to hear your Rotterdam accent coming through...! I had no idea ;-)

In the category "Best Travel Documentary" the OSCAR goes to...........Noraly aka itchy Boots!

Bijzonder hoe jij ons stukjes van ons land laat zien. Geniet van je creatieve manier van weergeven. Ga zo door.👍

Extremely impressive engineering by the Dutch to protect the Homeland! Very informative info in this video. Danke Noraly.

Stayed in Rotterdam for almost 9 months, but I never had such a detailed understanding of this issue. It is certainly very informative.

dutch is amazing when it comes to water system, they are just like a maestro, I lives in Indonesia, and my grandfather house is build by the dutch, almost 100 years old house, but still solid, amazing dutch, I love dutch no matter what happened in the past, respect from Indonesia ❤

Speaking as a father of 3 beautiful daughters. Something are unchangable and a fathers love for his daughters is one of those things. I will hopefully be 80 someday and I will still defend them and look out for then as if they had just been born.

Thank you very much for the education. My mother is 81, she has asked me many times about this subject throughout the years and I never could have explained to her the way you explained to us. Now I can use your examples to explain it all to her. Regards.

I love it! I love following you around Netherlands. More pls.

I love the fatherly concern..after you have travelled half the globe yr Dad ask if you k ow out 😁👍👍 loved this video

I love the background music you used in this video blog. I know Celine Dion sang this in here concert, titled " A New Day" What an engineering marvel you Dutch people have done to your country. Amazing! Subscriber from the Philippines.

Noraly, you have no idea how much your"Good Morning Internet" has won millions of hearts!!!

Great presentation of a very high standard. I remember this event well as a ten yer old boy in Dublin as the Sunday newspapers had lots of photographs on the front pages of people being rescued. Look forward to you getting back on the road to Alaska but also enjoy your current videos from home. Thanks again for keeping us entertained in this lock down corona virus. John F. Ireland

Zierikzee @15:10 when you drove through the archway into this fairytale Dutch village with a windmill too was amazing 👏 Holland has some hidden gems 💎 Thanks for sharing Noraly

Hi, realy a nice Video.I was born in Germany and have been living in Denmark since many years and I always meet people on my motorcycle touring in both countries who do not know many of the Places we visit or do not know their history, which I think is a real shame, especially in today's world where we can get information so easily, via smartphone & internet. Drive save.

The caissons were part of a massive project called Mulberry Harbours. Construction of massive floating concrete blocks for D Day landings were made possible by the hard work of many people. My Grandfather was one of them. He told me as a young boy stories of how a man could fall asleep standing up whilst digging with a shovel. How despite illness, lack of food and sleep they kept on working. I hope that the world we live in would appreciate more how blessed we are to have all that we do have. I love Holland and have visited many times. A wonderful country with so many kind people. Happy riding. Love from England.