This is from my 2019 visit to Amsterdam. Found these files looking through my old hard drive so here it is! Enjoy exploring with me Instagram: instagram.com/itsconnersully/ Time Stamps Below: 0:00 - Goodmorning 1:14 - Talking to French Guy 5:37 - Basketball at Park 10:18 - A Crazy Toilet! 11:39 - Why the buildings are slanted? 14:41 - Asking kids to go on their boat 25:44 - Talking to Houseboat owner 29:16 - City Walk 34:21 - Peanut Butter French Fries 37:22 - Central Train Station 41:53 - Smallest Car in the World! 46:34 - Bikes and Weed
Hey Connor. You state here that the video is from 2019? But in the video you are saying it were "corona season". So it has to be from minimum 2020 doesnt it? Great video though. I love the vibe of these types of videos.
This channel single handedly helped me get the spark of travel that Conner has, starting with Germany ,my German teacher introduced me to this channel and I’ve been captivated with it ever since
Actually the houses are slanted because they were build as merchant houses, so the goods where hoisted to the floor where their storage was. But this also meant that people could save on stairway space and City Hall has made those beams with hooks mandatory, to keep saving space and have narrow stairways. It's been city policy to house efficiently since the 1500's, hence the tax on house width. Not on depth or height, because the waterfront, the canal front was the limiting factor on the number of businesses/merchants.
Saté is peanut based, but it's nothing like peanut butter. It's spicy and has its origin in the Dutch Indies, Indonesia. It is great with fries, chicken, meat balls and ..... Brussel sprouts :)
Love the look of Netherlands my family is actually from Netherlands and came to America so always awesome to see it from someone's pov from America and also the awesome footage, I've yet got to travel there but I wish someday I'll be able to visit there.. 👍 past family actually came from Netherlands and lived in new Netherlands and from there moved throughout America I'm sure alot of Americans family's have the same story 👍
Fun fact: New York first was New Amsterdam and had the same property size and housing style. Coney island was first called konijneneiland translated rabbit island. Netherlands is famous for cheese because they invented cheesestyles like gouda, emmentaler, tilsiter, old gouda and so on. And the Traditional cheeseauctions were in the Netherlands
Sorry to correct you, but the famous Emmentaler cheese originated in Switzerland and was named after the Emmen valley(Tal). The Tilsiter also is not an "Invention" of the netherlands. The Netherlands definetely have some great and delicious cheese varieties, but "Tilsiter" (a city in east prussia) and Emmentaler (a valley in switzerland) are not among them.
Hi im from the Netherlands and if u like Amsterdam then come to Helmond its so fun they are kind to you and you can talk to anyone who u dont know they are really kind for new people
As somebody from the Netherlands, I enjoyed watching this video! 🇳🇱🙌🏽 Also, the kids on the boat kinda laughed at the word "skipper" because the word actually derives from the Dutch word "schipper" which has the exact same meaning. They probably thought you were trying to say "schipper", hence the reason why they found it funny.
I really enjoy your videos, cause me by myself I don't have the opportunity to go to all these places. So I'm thankful for you and your outgoing personality👍
99.99% of the houses in Amsterdam are built on stilts (old buildings on wooden stilts and modern buildings on concrete stilts) as well as the bridges and the brick quay walls. The first load-bearing sand layer is at 12-14m below street level, that’s the layer where the little houses, quay walls and bridges have their stilts on. Bigger buildings have their stilts on the second load-bearing sand layer at 20-25m below street level. High-rise buildings have their foundation on the third load-bearing sand layer, don’t know the depth of that one. On top of the first sand layer is mostly peat and swampy earth, mixed with clay and sand, where you cannot build on, everything of brick and/or concrete will sink eventually below the surface. So buildings don’t sink because of the stilts, but roads and gardens don’t have stilts and they sink also, but at a much lower rate. But every once in a while it needs to be resurfaced with more sand under it to get at the same level as the buildings. There is a city, Gouda (the one of the cheese and the stroopwafels) where the surface is sinking a centimeter a year. At new developments the surface sinks with almost 20cm in the first year, so everyone has to resurface the garden and the pavement after the first year, otherwise there is an increasing threshold at the front and back door, but the most problems occur at the garage doors. Most people can step 20cm up in their houses through the front door, but your car can’t drive a 20cm threshold at the garage door. Every year repaving is so annoying.
That's also why there are often bricks instead of asphalt. So they don't have to really resurface but just get the bricks out, put an extra layer of sand on it and put the bricks back in. It's cheaper and much more quickly, road works in such a compact city shouldn't take too long because traffic is disrupted easily. The tall windows are not just because of the little light during the winter at this latitude, Amsterdam is about as Northern as Alaska, but also kept the buildings lighter, needing less stilts. It of course also had to do with the Dutch being filthy rich and the wealth being spread relatively evenly, because glass windows were very expensive back in the 16th and 17th century.
Most shops are closed in the Netherlands on Monday till about 12 and some the whole day that's why it was probably quite. Thats not a train😅 it's a tram. All the same your channel was very up beat and great to listen to.
Waow as a Dutchie, i enjoy your video, i use to live in Amsterdam, is a great city, Love that you are not afraid to talk to Dutch people, we are very easy going, and lay back.. Hope your mom enjoy your tour around Amsterdam, but there is söoooo much more to see in the Netherlands, than only Amsterdam Anyway hope you enjoy your time in the Netherlands
Hey Conner! I'm Dutch and really enjoyed your vlog. You are such a cheerful and spontaneous person! Just want to add: if you ever visit Amsterdam again, be sure to visit the museum-district. It always kind of bugs me that people associate the Netherlands with weed and prostitution. I don't judge: I smoke weed now and then. But the Netherlands has a strong tradition in the arts, and has produced some of the greatest artists of history. Artists like Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, Vermeer, Van Gogh, and the list goes on. And The Rijksmuseum has such a rich collection of masterpieces, which is so much more meaningful (to me). It'd be a shame to miss that! :) Again, compliments on your vlog! Keep on enjoying life! :)
12:17 these hooks where used in the old day's on packing houses, to hoist bags off flower or grain etc 😉 as far as i know normal houses didnt have these.
You have to understand that the houses that you filmed in the center is only where the super rich people live in amsterdam. Amsterdam is way bigger then just the center.
21:21 "terugkomen is niet hetzelfde als blijven" is coming back is not the same as staying. De regel 'Terugkomen is niet hetzelfde als blijven' is een zin aan het eind van een lange brief, die Belle van Zuylen in de nacht van 21-22 juli 1764 schreef aan David-Louis Constant d'Hermenches. De oorspronkelijke tekst is te vinden in Isabelle de Charrière/Belle van Zuylen, 'Oeuvres complètes', deel 1, p. The line 'Coming back is not the same as staying' is a sentence at the end of a long letter Belle van Zuylen wrote to David-Louis Constant d'Hermenches on the night of July 21-22, 1764. The original text can be found in Isabelle de Charrière/Belle van Zuylen, 'Oeuvres complètes', part 1, p.
Now listen up Conner, do proper research. Amsterdam is NOT on any seafront. Second through a CANAL ships reach the North Sea, NOT the Atlantic Ocean. Never mind going the other old way (pre canal) then the way to the North Sea is through the IJsselmeer, but that limits the size of ships.
Very very nice one ! Thank you for posting 🙏 About the houses: The most famous story about the sloping houses is indeed that they were built that way because of the 'rope and block'. A long rope can be attached with a pulley via a protruding piece of wood (hoisting beam) at the top of the facade. This allows you to, for example, hoist heavy furniture in or out through the window. If the facade leans forward slightly, there is less chance that a sofa will tip over at the downstairs neighbours. That's helpful, but it's probably not the original reason. In the Middle Ages, the people of Amsterdam built their houses from wood. With each higher floor they made sure that the front protruded slightly. This gave the upper floors more surface area and protected the floors below against the rain. Very handy. Until fires broke out. In the fifteenth century, Amsterdam went up in smoke several times. The city council intervened: Amsterdammers had to 'stone' their wooden houses. Specialists made ready-made stone facades and glued them to the front of the houses. As a result, the houses seem to tip forward. The crooked facades became a building trend. It turned out that there were more advantages to it. The first: because the top floor bent so far forward, all kinds of heavy goods could be hoisted up via a pulley without scraping the floors below. Reason number two: especially during the Golden Age, the Amsterdam facades became a status symbol. More detail in the stone and carvings on the facades meant more wealth indoors. If a facade protruded, all details were more visible to passers-by. Prolapse The houses in Amsterdam were therefore deliberately built crooked. But: today they are even more crooked than intended. This is due to the marshy soil on which Amsterdam is built. Already in the Middle Ages, residents drove piles of up to seven meters into the ground to strengthen the foundations. But that turned out not to be enough. Slowly the houses sank again. Architects discovered around the Golden Age that the piles had to be twice as long to reach the hard layer of sand. oops! Many foundations have now been reinforced with modern techniques. In the middle of the twentieth century, for example, the Palace on Dam Square received a gigantic makeover and dozens of additional poles. It may be a bit of a scary thought that Amsterdam is sinking away, but it is a nice sight.
At what time were you walking around? I never saw the city so quiet. You are invited to come to The Hague.. Will show you around. And we can go to Delft and Rotterdam.
Car parking is 7,50 an hour (!) From Amsterdam it is about 1.5 hour to both the German and Belgian borders. There are dozens of museums, more than 1000 restaurants more than 1200 cafe's and something like 17000 shops and thousands of other (sports) clubs and other activities in Amsterdam. I can get quite buzzing with the tourists and people from the Netherlands, but at the moment you where there it was really quiet (probably early monday morning?)
Car parking prices that high are only near the very heart of Amsterdam right in the middle of town near Central Station. I live on the edge of town in Amsterdam and parking fees are 3.50 near residental houses and 10 cents an hour near sporting facilities. And residents can get an subscription where parking in their neighbourhood becomes free. But it's kinda silly to bring your car to Amsterdam as tourist it's way better to use either bike or public transportation.
Youre so right ! Im German and IT Sounds Like German and english Mixed when i hear dutch. I Love the netherlands so much ! Best country in my opinion:) i Love the country and the people
the most popular bicycles are the so-called "omafiets" they are very cheap and simple. Bicycles disappear every day in Amsterdam that's the main reason 😅
I love your enthusiasm man. You tried really hard to respect the culture! Obviously you got some things wrong like speaking German instead of Dutch, but that's fine.
Cheese is not a Amsterdam thing, it is a Dutch thing. And since Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, it is also all over Amsterdam as it is in the rest of the country. The Dutch are also called cheese heads, says enough🙂
Amsterdam cheese : Old Amsterdam . History: Made with Amsterdam mentality Nowhere in the world will you find a city like Amsterdam. It is hard work and also a lot of fun. Free thinking and the Dutch commercial spirit have been anchored in Amsterdammers since the 17th century. That entrepreneurial spirit, individuality and pride appealed to the Westland family. When they started as cheese makers, they let the cheeses ripen in the middle of Amsterdam, in a building on the Lijnbaansgracht. The contrasting character of the city and its inhabitants crept into the hearts of the family during those early years. And therefore also in the cheese of Old Amsterdam.
The houseboats vs the canalhouses: Amsterdam housing is absolutely extortion, A million Euro won't do. Serious! If you have property you have to pay taxes. Boats were not taxed in old times. So that's why house-boats boomed but now they are on an extinction list.
