One thing to keep in mind as a tourist: These are pretty flowers, but they are also on private land and someone's income. Not all farmers are happy to let tourists in their fields and for heavens sake, don't pick the flowers unless it is stated that this is okay! Farmers have hit hard times across the country, and in the past they have had to get pretty aggressive to ward of bus loads of tourists. So please enjoy the flowers, but make sure to behave properly. This goes for all tourists, domestic or foreign. I also love that the video shown got all the things right about the difference between Holland and the Netherlands, and even that the money symbol used to be ƒ (For florins)
I'm an Aussie but am married to a Dutch woman and have lived here in the Netherlands for 11 years. The tulip fields are awesome to fly over coming into Amsterdam but we live about 2 hours from there and we still have them up the road from us. They are a real sight to see and if you can get over here sometime you should.
I live in such an area and the funniest thing is the day the farmers cut the flowers as you can see in the first pictures of your video, then you can watch screaming tourists, who think they are destroying the flowers, but it's not the flowers itself who got saled but only the bulbs, so the flowers on the fields get destroyed at a certain time to give the power of growing to the bulb
Went to the Netherlands in 8th grade (from DK). There are 4 things about that trip I'll never forget: Amsterdam, the canals, the Delft blue ceramics and the visit to one of those flower hubs. Basically we had a week on a canal boat around the Netherlands to go visit the most iconic/stereotypical corners of the country. Of course we got to see Van Gogh and other art museums... You could say that it was a concentrated bouillon cube of the Netherlands.
You probably mist The Efteling when you were in the Netherlands voted best themed themepark in the world, much bigger then Euro Disney park in Paris. Kids and adults from all over the world go crazy for Efteling, lots of videos of people from ofher countries visitng Efteling on RU-vid. Americans I heard call Efteling it the dark version of Disney, but it is nothing like Disney. I live next to Keukenhof one of the biggest flower garden in the world. Also live close to the town Delft where the ceramics are from. Recently protesters threw paint on a Van Gogh painting in a museum. Everyone should visit Efteling once in their life time even if you are not into themeparks. It was a beautiful nature reserve before they put themepark Efteling in it.
@@dimrrider9133 Ik hoorde Amerikanen zeggen dat de Efteling a cheap knock of was van Disney, interessant aangezien de Efteling er eerder was dan Disney. Het leukste van Disney in de US was dat medewerkers ons verplichten om te zitten op de stoep tijdens een optocht, mochten niet staan. De medewerker werd een beetje vervelend, hij bleef zeggen you in the back are not ok en dat er zoveel parkeer garages waren dat we de auto niet meer terug konden vinden. En inderdaad buitenlanders die naar Amsterdam komen voor vakantie of er komen wonen die dan vlogs maken en denken dat heel Nederlands zo is. Amsterdam is een beetje Disney en niet representatief voor de rest van Nederland.
@@2012inca I don't remember it's name, but even before the school trip I'd been to some theme park in Appeldorn? First time I tried 4D cinema, going down a snow slope, and another riding a cart through a mineshaft... But it's so many years ago now. On the school trip we went to a waterpark in Rotterdam that was the largest in Europe at the time. And tried some smell-o-vision in Amsterdam.
When you visit Netherlands in person it still doesn't look real, it looks like a photoshopped edited video, it's just mind blowing. It's a beautiful country and I don't see any other countries more beautiful than the Netherlands
yeah. just... dont go to amsterdam. most of us don't like that place and it isn't really dutch for a long time. just go to nijmegen, den bosch or pretty much any other place.
I found a gold ring in the UK while metal detecting, it has stylised tulips engraved on it and believed to come from the 1630s at the height of the tulip craze according to the archaeologists.
I went to the Keukenhof with my parents. I'm not in to flowers but the variation of colors is mind-blowing even for me! But the Netherlands in general the most beautiful country for vacation! Gouda, Alkmaar with it's traditional Cheese-Market (Kaasmarkt) Giethoorn (the little Venice of the Netherlands) Afsluitdijk (A Dam between the North Sea an IJsselmeer) and a great way to explore the Netherlands is by chartering a yacht for vacation! But the best part from the Netherlands are the people! Friendly and relaxt! And they have everytime the time to have a great talk and a mug coffee ( gewoon een lekker kopje koffie drinken)
that wouldn't be too unrealistic actually. all these large fields get mechanically chopped off by tractors, it;s not the flower that holds the value, but the bulb in the ground. So during the bloom period, the flowers get chopped off, so that the remaining energy in the plant goes to the bulb, and not the flower. he can drive an unimog, just not with a plow, but with a kind of oversized lawnmower
I actually grew up near the Noordoostpolder, so these fields full of tulips were an everyday sight each year. When i was 14 i started to work in the summer with these farmers to peeling the bulbs, a tedious and boring job, but it became fun because we were with all of these teenagers, nice music and the pay was not too bad. Because they were so common to me, i never thought tulips were so special.
My parents were Dutch, so I've been there many times. The tulip fields are amazing, well worth going to see. It may be a very small country but it is so beautiful, and I love that you can cycle to anywhere, bike paths are everywhere as it's a very common way for people to get around, it's very safe. 🌷❤
I had to cycle 4 km (2.5 miles, one way) through the tulip fields everyday to get to high school. The village that grew up in is surounded by tulips every spring
Hi IWrocker! I usually don’t like reaction videos, but somehow I enjoy your videos very much! I live in the north of The Netherlands (Friesland) there are a lot of tulip fields around our village. I used to work at a tulip farm when I was a kid. If you decide to visit The Netherlands sometime you can come over to my place. I’ll make sure the beer is cold. Just let me know if you decide to👌🏻
Hello bro love your video's I am born and lived there for 28 years . I like seeing people reacting on the flower beds like you because for me it's not so special but if you like this maby find video of what we call Bloemen corso.
Where I live , in the north of the province of Noord -Holland, we have in early spring big fields with blue, white and pink hyacinths, ( the whole area then smells of those flowers 😀) also large fields with daffodils and later lots of big fields with tulips in all colors you can think off. Behind my garden every 3 years there’s is a huge tulip field. I always enjoy it. It is therefore always a pity when the tulips are topped after a while. Because of all the flower fields I think spring is the most beautiful time of the year for me.
Around mid-end of April (which coincides with part of the tulip season) the Betuwe region in the central part of the Netherlands has it's own blooming season. Fruit trees. Apple, plum, pear and cherry trees are in bloom all over the shop. The Betuwe region is the fruit growing area of the country.
It gets normal if you grow up and live amongst these fields... It used to be a thing that kids would work in those fields during days off from school, to make some pocket money. Now it is mostly Eastern Europeans. Another fun thing to see is the fields of sunflowers. We have some in .nl, but in France that is really big and you see them everywhere.
Kratten bollen pellen met kapotte handen als gevolg en sommige bollen geven stof af dat overal jeukt. Kinderen uitbuiten voor veel werk en weinig geld. Blij dat ik het niet meer hoef te doen. Ook op land werken in de hitte als kind nog erger, sommige met zonnesteek als gevolg omdat ze niks durven te zeggen tegen de baas. Was meteen ontslag als je dat deed. Heb er van geleerd dat ik het nooit meer wilde doen. Zag Polen die de hele dag high waren om die zware bollen kisten te kunnen stapelen. Nooit meer lol.
for me it is 40 years now. And I worked as a part-time job for much of my school years, peeling bulbs, sorting them, picking up bulbs from the field, and cutting off flower heads, but it still looks absolutely amazing year after year.
I sincerely hope that you have a 'to visit' list taped to the wall. Tulip fields, real bakeries, fire engine manufacturer, large truck manufacturers, the list just goes on doesn't it ? Not expensive to tour around Europe for a couple of weeks with a little planning, and think of all the fresh material ! Regards
Both of my grandparents had a bulb farm in the bulb region between Leiden and Haarlem. Every holiday (spring, summer and fall) we worked on the fields or in the bulb shed to peel bulbs or sort and package them for selling abroad. We had to stay and sleep at my grandparents because we lived in another part of the country. The peeling of bulbs in the sheds was fun, lots of young people earning a bit of extra money and lots of music. I have fond memories of those times.
What about Dutch hyacinth fields? Especially the blue ones... If you see blue in bulb fields, those are not tulips but hyacinths, because there are no really blue tulips.
2:45 Yes, I live very close near them. I live in a village and when I cycle to school in the spring, I drive past dozens of tulip fields. It's really beautiful to see all those different colors. Come up with a color combination and it will be there. Absolute beautiful
i live in the neterlands and its always beautiful.Iin the video you see people walk between the flowers. DO NOT STEP INTO THE FIELDS!!! that is private property from the farmer get very angry !!!
SHOCKING FACT: All the tulip flowers in the fields are mown and then composted. They are not sold!. The farmer doesn't farm tulip flowers but tulip bulbs. The bulbs are sold to various outlets and from there they are sold all over the word where they will bloom.
that is absolutely correct the tulips you see in the fields where they bloom, they are indeed only grown for the bulbs (the bulbs multiply). The flowers are removed/cut so that the nutrients go to the bulb and not to the flower. Some time after flowering, the bulbs are dug up from the ground, checked, "peeled" (removing newly grown bulbs from the mainbulb), sorted and sold or just used for replanting. The tulips that are grown for flower sales are more often grown in greenhouses.
The bulb region (bollenstreek) officially starts about 5km south of where I live but we have a few fields here as well. But they have been making way for housing for about a hundred years now, there used to be dozens of fields, or so my grandparents have told me. I've seen the fields my entire life, and like many things that are "special" to other but part of your everyday life, I've never actually visited the fields or went out of my way to look at them.
Dutch person here living next to Keukenhof biggest flower garden in the world. I once got in to an argument with a group of Scots by me saying I like Scots. Can you believe it ? I said to this group of men I like Scots but I really LOVE LOVE the Irish. Emotional damage Lol.
Not in my backyard but pretty close to home. It has been a reason for an early springtime tour for about 50 years. And I can't wait to see this again in a few months.
I live in the Netherlands and for me it's normal to work in the flower industry as an adolescent. So yeah. I have seen this everywhere but it is surprisng to see how foreigners react to it
We have had a tulip festival in Haninge, just south of Stockholm, Sweden for a few years. All the tulips were delivered from Holland, and placed in parks and open areas. Very colorful to say the least. And fun to photograph.
Hey - Amsterdam Calling has a great video you MUST see, "biggest flower parade- corso zundert 2018 Netherlands" Thanks and Keep up the good content...👍🖖
Might also make for an interesting reaction about a short dutch police chase regarding an armed suspect. Channel: Politie Landelijke Eenheid Video: Politie | Verdacte van bedreiging met een vuurwapen | Achtervolging | Landelijke Eenheid |
It is beautiful! But please don't walk into the fields, like the do in the clip, and don't pick the flowers. The farmers don't like it. It's their income and it is private land! Although some farmers have a separate field where tourists can taken photos.
I live in the Duin en Bollenstreek and my village is surounded by flower feelds. De Keukenhof (Flower garden) is in Lisse, wich is about 20 min. by bike from my house
You really should check the best video combo ever, it is a dutch ytber called Mastermilo. He is dutch and he makes crazy contraptions like "de rol golf" (rolling VW golf)
In the Northern spring of 1987 I was sent to Eindhoven to be trained in MRI's so I could carry out the installation of the first one here in Perth, WA. Me and a couple of other Aussies had a car and went to the annual Keukenhof Tulip flower show at Lisse. It was quite spectacular, not just the massive fields, but also the static displays inside huge tent like structures. I was most impressed by some black tulips with fringes on the pedals. All up it was a great day out, I still got some photos stuck away somewhere.
Cool you went to Keukenhof I live next to Keukenhof in Lisse, to me flowerfields are as normal as the Sydney bridge is to people living in Sydney. 1.6 million people visit Keukenhof from all over the world in 6 weeks these days. Have you also been to the Castle Keukenhof, my friend married at the Castle Keukenhof and many other couples do. Maybe nice to know at the castle Keukenhof on castle grounds 45.000 people from 60 countries fly in to party at Castlefest for 3 days, some camp out in in tents on castle grounds others in hotels. Castlefest is a medieval Fantasy festival where adults and children dress up as knights, ferrys, witches, Harry Potter etc and a lot of people create their own fantasy characters and fantasy clothing. They have bands playing music from the middle ages, it is fun and weird at the same time seeing all those fantasy characters doing shopping in our supermarkets.Castlefest at Castle Keukenhof has a website and lots of video's on RU-vid of people attending Castlefest if want to see for youself. P.s.The Dutch do not only alter and create new color flowers they also made carrots orange and exported orange carrots all over the world as they did business all over the world, you may have guessed carrots hundreds of years ago were not orange of color. Our royal families last name is, "of Orange" King of Orange, on his birtday Kingsday everyone is free of work, parties in the streets and everyone wears Orange clothing. There are Kingsday video's on RU-vid if you want to see. That is one reason why the Dutch altered the color of carrots to orange. Everyone thinks I am crazy as they think carrots were always orange, they were not hundreds of years ago. The Dutch altered the color or carrots to orange and exported these orange carrots all over the world hundreds of years ago..
@@yvonnecampbell7036 I had a great time there, was there for 13 weeks and lived in a boarding house about 4 blocks from the 2 steeple church. Was there during Carnivale and it was real wild. You still got the what us Aussies called "the street of a thousand bars" where all the uni students hang out? I worked for Philips at the time and managed to see a fair bit of The Netherlands during that time. I also really licked Utrecht a lot. I last got to Eindhoven for a couple of hours in 2005. I was then working for Siemens and doing courses in Karlsruhe, Germany and rented a car for a weekend jaunt. All up it is a great part of the world, and glad I got to spend some time in it a couple of times.
You seem intrigued with The Netherlands so might I suggest you look into that "polder" thing the narrator made a remark about. When she said that farmland used to be water she ment that quite literally. Neighbouring Germany to the East and the North Sea to the West our ancestors figured it would be easier to reclaim land from the sea rather than the Germans and so they did, that farmland centuries ago used to be called the South Sea I think. The topic also neatly ties into the so-called "Afsluitdijk" (translates to 'closure-dyke' I figure) which is a roughly 20 mile dam and causeway that might peek your interest, or at the very least be an interesting drive one day.
Check out RU-vid videos of Americans and English people visiting The Efteling in the Netherlands. Efteling was voted best themed themepark in the world and was created before Disneyparks even existed. Efteling is huge in size it is a 2 / 3 day park , it is bigger then Euro Disney in Paris. The theming of the attractions, dark rides and rollercoaster is next level and the park is centered around fairytales. I heard a couple of Americans say the Efteling it is the darker version of Disney as Disney suger coats fairytales and the Efteling does not sugar coat anything. Most children, parents and grandparents have been to Efteling as a child. Next level for children is the huge toy donkey lifting up its tale and shitttng fake golden Efteling coins for children to play a game of catch the Efteling coin. And of course the the big cheek-faced talking trash cans that suck in trash children throw in, with the trashcan saying papier hier, meaning throw your paper in here and sucking it in though his moith. Lots of video's on RU-vid of Americans and English speaking people vising Efteling. There was an American couple saying oh no not another themepark, but after they went to Efteling they said this themepark is different, we actually felt sad to leave. It is because it was a huge beautiful nature resort at first, they just built themepark Efteling in this huge nature resort after.
Hey ian you should check out the RU-vid channel called 4wd 24/7 and youl see some classic Aussie 4wd and Aussie 4wd tracks I recommend the Cape York video but I guarantee youl love the show
Hey guys Ian's done a reaction video before about 4wd24/7 I can't remember which one though and not sure if they let him do another one or not because I was thinking the same once but it was the 1000 dollar track in Tasmania that I would of liked him to react to
I live next to Keukenhof one of the biggest flower gardens in the world. To me flowerfields are as normal as the Sydney bridge is to people living in Sydney. 1.6 million people visit Keukenhof from all over the world in 6 weeks these days. There is also a Castle Keukenhof people can visit, my friend married at the Castle Keukenhof and many other couples do. Maybe nice to know at the castle Keukenhof on castle grounds 45.000 people from 60 countries fly in to party at Castlefest for 3 days, some camp out in in tents on castle grounds others in hotels. Castlefest is a medieval Fantasy festival where adults and children dress up as knights, ferrys, witches, Harry Potter etc and a lot of people create their own fantasy characters and fantasy clothing. They have bands playing music from the middle ages, it is fun and weird at the same time seeing all those fantasy characters doing shopping in our supermarkets.Castlefest at Castle Keukenhof has a website and lots of video's on RU-vid of people attending Castlefest if want to see for for yourself.
You shoul dive into the greenhouse culturele of The Netherlands too: same story like a huge space of the land covered with glass. Underneath grow all sorts of fruit nd vegetables. A spectacular sight.
i live in a area where they do tullips (and LOTS of other plants and crops.) It's amazing to live but it is not that spectacular when you used to it haha
It is amazing to watch all those vibrant colours sad thing is that more and more tourists go into the fields like they do in this video... Last year a farmer had to cut off all the flowerheads earlier because of it. Tourists should respect farmers crops!!
2:20 Keukenhof is not just open in the spring. I went there both in August and September as a friend of mine lives in Lisse and it was open. Just not a lot of flowers blooming. Still a nice garden and at least there were 0 tourists.
watching by accident your video's and im from the netherlands bro and i live in Haarlem near Amsterdam & the tulip region only about 10km from where i came from and see it every year and love the spring time in the netherlands 100% its always a amazing sight to see especially when the weather is nice and the sun is shining all the people who are cheerful and greet you in a friendly way and or have a chat with you yeah spring time in the netherlands is like i said always nice and lovely and it is definitely recommended to visit the Netherlands whether you love nature or want to explore the big cities, there is something for everyone
Plugging for Swedish content again, search for "moving Kiruna" in YT. Parts of the town of Kiruna is being moved and it's pretty spectacular. Also, while in Kiruna search for "ice hotel". It's well worth a visit.
Spider-Man: Far From Home in this part of the film there is a scene where they are flying with a plane over tulips. maybe that's why the scene is familiar to you
I live in the city of Haarlem, near the region where you can see these flower fields. But my aunt can actually see these fields from her bedroom window, because she lives in the little village of De Zilk. We’ve got an annual flower parade that attracts millions of visitors each year, to come and see big floats covered with flowers, moving from the bulb flower region to my city of Haarlem. It’s called: Bloemencorso. You can see an animated version of these fields in Spider-man: Far from home. Though the animations aren’t that great to be honest.
No not the Bitcoin of the late middle ages because the tullip bubble last just one year. Bitcoin have had at least it's 3rd bubble and there s value in Bitcoin which the tullip doesn't have
@IWrocker: As you caan see at 4:07 in your video, there sure are people who see them from house. Another one in the region you would want to visit: Hallerbos (near Brussels): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YPv7arOgdd8.html
Wait till he learns that these fields of flowers are not for resale, they all get chopped off, decapitated... it's the bulbs that are sold....... And the people plant them in their own garden (or indoors) and get the flowers next season.
It looks great but there is something you need to know that is that tulip doesn’t grow in The Netherlands what you are watching right now are Italy tulips give also a shoutout to Italy for helping The Netherlands with their flowers collecting 👏🏾👏🏾
There not! because of your weather situation tulips doesn’t grow in the Netherlands but It does grow in Italy and Netherlands has already confirmed that the tulips originally comes from Italy
🤨🤨 I work at one of the biggest tulip bulb exporters of The Netherlands and our bulbs ARE indeed Dutch and grown on Dutch soil. WTH are you talking about? 🤨🙄😒
i live in Dordrecht and occasionally need to go to Barendrecht where there is one of the largest flower auction houses. I worked there as a kid as well. its great
They have a pretty big tulip festival at Wynyard Tasmania Australia aswell and have done for some years now it's a big tourist attraction there is a lot of video's on RU-vid about it I always like seeing the bird's eye view's of big gardens because it looks like a big art canvas
Before I moved out of my parents place I used to see the flower fields in our Village. Now the flowerfield has been sold and houses are built on them. They live in de bollenstreek. In a place called Voorhout.
Here's something else amazing in The Netherlands. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8SNhmMKc9Mg.html Underground parking garages for bicycles are almost uniquely Dutch. Not Just Bikes and the older but equally famous Bicycle Dutch channels are both from RU-vidrs who are trying to export the concept of safe and thought through cycling infrastructure to other countries and areas. They published lots of really mind-blowing material about lots of details that go into Dutch urban planning. There seems to be a whole movement happening now to adapt North American suburbia to this Dutch concept of freedom to move around safely for all ages. Which is a whole battle of itself of course. It's not easy to try and change a system of laws and habits that have been imposed for over half a century. But they're trying anyway and I'm very curious to see how far they'll get over time. Imsgine an average American suburb with safe cycling paths everywhere. Mom and pop shops and smaller supermarkets, schools and sports facilities in every housing district just a mile or 2 away. People walking and cycling everywhere and leaving their cars at home. Everyone out on the street just enjoying their lives instead of being stuck inside because everything is basically too far away. As a Dutchie I think it should be called the new American dream. In The Netherlands we're living it and it's awesome. Even though we take it for granted. Growing up as a kid from around 8 years old I didn't need my parents to go places. And boy did I already go places. Which is just fine in an area with safe infrastructure and lots of other people out on the street. Makes for very happy kids. 😎
We have a similar tulip festival in Canberra every spring called "Floriade". With a display of over one million blooms, it's the biggest celebration of spring in Australia and attracts visitors from around the country, and the world.
Floriade 1960 was a horticultural exhibition and garden festival in the town of my birth Rotterdam. Have lived in NZ for the last 45 years and with all the crap going on here I wish I never left my beautiful country and people .
@@vankuipland I am sad to hear that. Some problems are world-wide, like COVID, but it sounds like the problems you are alluding to are more specific to NZ.
My older brother was offered a job which would have taken him to the Netherlands back in the seventies but his untimely death put a stop to that. He would have really enjoyed it. I think I would too. When I was a teenager loved watching the original TV series of "van der Valk", which was set in Amsterdam. And I am a big fan of the Old Dutch painters. I adore landscapes with wind mills and tulips - can't get enough of them. So quintessentially Dutch.
Floriade we have in the Netherlands as well, so I guess a Dutch immigrant took that name to Australia. Keukenhof is much bigger though then the Dutch Floriade.
