Zoetermeer: From Pixels to Peace (A City of Generations)

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Zoetermeer: From Pixels to Peace (A City of Generations)
Join us on a captivating journey through the picturesque Dutch city of Zoetermeer! In this immersive vlog, we delve into the heart of this hidden gem, uncovering its rich history, cultural landmarks, and hidden treasures.
Our first stop is Molen de Hoop, a majestic windmill that stands tall as a symbol of Zoetermeer's heritage. Next, we venture into the vibrant world of gaming at the National Videogame Museum. Step into a realm where pixels come to life, as we dive into the history of gaming, from classic arcade machines to modern virtual reality experiences. Immerse yourself in nostalgia and witness the evolution of gaming technology that has captivated generations.
As we continue our exploration, we cross the iconic Nelson Mandela Bridge, a striking architectural marvel that spans gracefully across the city. Learn about the significance of this bridge and its symbolic representation of unity, peace, and freedom. Our final destination takes us to the serene and idyllic Westerpark. Breathe in the fresh air as we wander through this green oasis, discovering tranquil ponds, meandering pathways, and beautifully landscaped gardens. Whether you're seeking a moment of relaxation or engaging in recreational activities, Westerpark offers a serene escape from bustling city life.
Join us on this captivating journey through Zoetermeer and experience the perfect blend of history, culture, and natural beauty. Subscribe to our channel and hit the notification bell, so you won't miss out on our exciting adventures as we uncover the hidden gems of the Netherlands, one city at a time!
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00:00 Welcome to Zoetermeer
02:12 Molen De Hoop
03:45 Zoetermeer Fact
04:31 National Videogame Museum
10:24 Zoetermeer Fact
12:12 Nelson Mandela Bridge
14:17 Zoetermeer Fact
14:52 Westerpark and Sites We Missed
17:55 Thoughts on Zoetermeer
19:00 Tot Ziens!
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We're Tracey and Travis, an American couple who moved with our Miniature Husky, Tabasco, from our home in Houston, Texas to the city of Leiden, The Netherlands. We love food, travel, history, and exploring our new home. We love sharing our adventures all around The Netherlands with you!
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@playy1797 Год назад

That was fun, bumping into you guys in the museum and showing you around the storage and technical department. Thanks for stopping by and making us and me part of this video. Come back soon! Greetings, Frans.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

We had the absolute best time, Frans! Thank you for showing us around behind the scenes. We are already planning our next visit!

@playy1797 Год назад

@@TAndTGoDutch Do let me know when you come again if you can, I'd love to chat some more.

@HollandHiking Месяц назад

It's the town where I live. It is new, dull, but a good place for living. You only visited one of the parks we have here. There are far more and that's why I like it here. You may want to know Zoetermees was the best cycling town of the country in 2023, which was well deserved into my opinion.

@mitchbiever9262 Год назад

Pretty cool to see my hometown where I’m living for 33 years now! Some fun facts about Zoetermeer also; The Zegwaardseweg was the last location where soldiers ate and slept while going to the civilian war in Leiden! (Leids verzet) There’s a watertower in Rokkeveen close to the Nelson mandela brug. The Noord Aa lake is a human hand digged lake where soil was won for the construction of Zoetermeer and by time it filled with water and they left it that way!

@LindaCasey Год назад

I'm so proud of you two for not only trying to improve your Dutch publicly, but while giving us a tour of a city you're not really familiar with either. Bravo!🌹(Try saying ZOOtermeer)

@lienbijs1205 9 месяцев назад

Weet jij waar ze zijn gebleven?

@LindaCasey 9 месяцев назад

@@lienbijs1205 Hmmmm nee

@lienbijs1205 9 месяцев назад

@@LindaCasey Vreemd toch? Al maanden plotseling van aardbodem verdwenen

@LindaCasey 9 месяцев назад

@@lienbijs1205 Tja

@Vi3Corner Год назад

Thank you for visited my city 😊, we live here for almost 30 years, another fact : every suburbs has a number, you can read it the sign on the road, Stadhart Centrum no.11, it means 2711 postcode (Zoetermeer is 27). I see that your journey from Stadhart, Dorpstraat, Driemanspolder (Mandela brug) to West Park....wel a long walk 😊😊😊. Near Zoetermeer is Zoeterwoude, a very old city ...thank you again.

@Lilygirl283 Год назад

Always look forward to your videos, Zoetermeer seems lovely...

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Thank you so much for your kindness, it’s such a charming place.

@paulbijnsdorp6601 11 месяцев назад

So nice for You to have paid my home town a visit. Really enjoyed the video.

@Nathaliabooks Год назад

Hello I am someone who was raised up in Zoetermeer, there are still some parts of the Floriade left. The petting farm Balijehoeve is one of them. Also fun fact the part that is reclaimed, is still lower below sea level than the rest of the Netherlands.

@jackvandersluis1723 Год назад

Thanks T&T , the videogame museum is awsome! 👏👏

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

It really is!

@fredkempe6043 Год назад

Love your videos. I've seen them all. As a Canadian we all know that the "lanes" in the game of curling are called sheets. Keep up the good work.

@robertboender5816 Год назад

So you've been in my hometown . Sorry i missed you and if i knew upfront i would have meet up. Still lots to see and discover .

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Agreed!

@MichelBaek Год назад

Great video. It’s nice to see you covering beautiful nature, history facts AND things like the Videogame museum. As a gamer i like it very much. Old games bring back great memories. Thank you for another great video. ❤❤❤

@AnneSpeeFrickus Год назад

Nice video; Zoetermeer is close by, but I never knew the museum was there. The pinball museum in Rotterdam is very nice too!

@Paul_C Год назад

Normally Floriade is build in locations that is meant to be a building site. Basically it a precursor to a larger plan for a city. It is why it only done every 10 year. For instance the Venlo event had a focus on greenhouse agriculture because they had plans for a dutch auction house in that area. It saved a lot of money because it was where the Germans bought their vegs.

@theindiejurnee Год назад

I'm an American and I've been to the video game museum on two different visits to Zoetermeer and I even introduced it to my Dutch friend who lives in Zoetermeer and didn't know about it! We had such a great time!!! So good to see it in a video!!!!

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

It’s such a great time. Thanks so much for watching!

@dutchymarketing5218 Год назад

This was close to my home town of Voorburg , where I grew up. I believe I played Korfball in Zoetermeer once . Korfball is a dutch sport not played in other countries similar to basketball. Maybe in a future video you can explain this sport.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

We’ve been to Voorburg quite a few times, actually. Korfball is interesting, we’ll look in to it. Thanks for the suggestion!

@anouk6644 Год назад

In the past I’ve worked at Snowworld in the ski shop before the extension of the longest slope. It’s really great to go skiing or snowboarding for an hour and inside is a nice Austrian mountain lodge atmosphere, including an après-ski bar. I don’t know if they still do it, but in the summer they had a beachvolleybal area outside and in the winter there would be a ice skating ring. Fun fact, the ‘hill’ it’s build on used to be a dumping ground for rubble. They have build a park around it and you can run into some horses and highland cows. Once I saw a man walking his goat on a leash 😂

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Awesome! Thanks for the insider info!

@ohhi5237 3 месяца назад

in recent years its a total scam, prices went up 2x 3x, quality and maintance is gone, there are no people coming in and nobody would care if they would

@greetjep8466 Год назад

awww would have loved to meet .. im living just outside zoetermeer in a small village called Zevenhuizen... if you want to see more mills.. we have 6-7 around the rottemeren.. de rotte actually start just outside moerkapelle here and runs all the way up to Eric and Tammy haha.. so you can swim or bike to them( its about 1.5 hrs. Anyway.. next time rent a bike and visit the Molenviergang and the Rottemeren surrounding :) hugs... btw im in Second Life since 2006

@rutger1963 Год назад

Sweetlake city,hahaha,love it!

@erikvandenbergh4469 Год назад

Born in Zoetermeer, currently live in Blauwestad (Bluecity). It was Nice to see sweetlakecity 😊

@rinynewton8297 Год назад

Hi great video. I love your history on different places. As a Dutchie I learn all the time. Love it. I think you both are so brave at sticking into the language it's a difficult language to learn. Keep going looking forward to your next video. BTW how is Eric he was at the cardiologist last Wednesday?

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

He’s doing well! Thanks so much for watching.

@ohhi5237 3 месяца назад

this was not a land reclamation project (as its too far inland) but yes the area was flooded, to ward off the spanish invasion that ended in leiden, a little bit more north

@lennartvers1767 Год назад

Great video as always you guys. I really laughed at your description of Zoetermeer though, l love your positive outlook. Mainly because I am 100% sure the words picturesque and Zoetermeer have never been used in the same sentence at once in the history of Zoetermeer. If you would say in Dutch: "Zoetermeer is Pittoresk", Dutch people will start to laugh and think it is satire. So therefore I think your positivity about Zoetermeer should be recognized and you should be awarded (Tabasco included) with a statue on a 'picturesque' spot in Zoetermeer immediately!

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Haha, maybe just not anywhere near the Nelson Mandela bridge, we can skip that. 😂

@bepsnet Год назад

Since you spend quite a lot of time on history, it might be fun to look at the ordinary houses in the streets. Often there is a picture on it or the roof is a stepped gable, etc. Maybe you can find out what the meaning of the picture is on that gable. Was there a drug store or fabric store etc., the houses next to it were often for the working people etc.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

That’s a really neat suggestion, thanks!

@clifffan3 Год назад

I have lived there for 8 Years.

@MartijnFrazer Год назад

Very cool! If you like videogames then maybe consider dropping by Blast Galaxy in Amsterdam if you're ever in the neighbourhood. It's across the water from centraal station and while it's an arcade, you don't pay for the machines, but instead buy an entry ticket which then lets you play everything for as long as you want, which is really cool!

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Sounds like a really fun time. Thanks for the tip!

@ronaldderooij1774 Год назад

Zoetermeer is mostly known for the famous Nutricia Chocomel (and baby food). All world renowned products.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

What an interesting fact, thanks for sharing!

@ohhi5237 3 месяца назад

and ibm

@Brutalion82 Год назад

Nice that you've visited my hometown! When you were at the mall, did you notice the UFO like building hanging above the western part? It's a fitness centre, but it's more suitable as a restaurant in my opinion cause of the view. Next time you visit Zoetermeer, be sure to check out the other parks on the edge of the city called Buytenpark (where you can find Snowworld) and a young forest/park called Balijbos.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Yes, we definitely noticed that! One day was certainly not enough to do all the exploring we wanted to. Luckily, we live pretty close.

@beautyofflightsimulation2349 Год назад

I do love the view while working out there though!

@eefjewentelteefje8390 Год назад

Nutricia's A-quality baby milk powder was very popular (meaning safe) amongst parents in Asia. A couple of years ago Asian customers were hoarding bulk supplies at Dutch drugstores. Stores had to limit the numbers customers were allowed to buy....

@nfboogaard Год назад

Sweetlake city!! I used to work there 😄

@Ozymandias1 Год назад

Sweetermore. 😆

@kikidoove9456 Год назад

In the Dorpsstraat in Zoetermeer is a great vegan restaurant named Ministerie van Geluk, or Departement of HHappyness

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Ooh! We’ll have to check that out. Thank you!

@margreetanceaux3906 Год назад

Guess you haven’t been to Schiedam yet? The mills there are (by my guess) the largest. The height amidst other buildings has to do with the necessity to catch wind… in other words compared to regular mills, these city ones ‘start’ up from the height of the neighboring roofs.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Nope, not yet. Slowly making our way around. Hopefully, soon!

@Ozymandias1 Год назад

Molen de Noord in Schiedam is the tallest windmill in the world. Mind you, not counting wind turbines. Schiedam has one of them too, De Nolet, which is shaped like an old windmill and is used to power the Nolet Distillery, where Ketel One gin and vodka is made. It’s open to visit by the public.

@fvry402 Год назад

Dear friends, go to Franeker, in Friesland, it is a beautiful medieval town, nic place to walk around.....

@ohhi5237 3 месяца назад

sneekweek maybe

@RichardRenes Год назад

There is a pinball museum in Rotterdam btw, which works kind of the same way: you pay for entry for 2 hours and you can play all the machines for free during that time.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Sounds like a blast! Thanks for sharing!

@user-xi6nk4xs4s Год назад

Used to work in Zoetermeer for a number of years. Especially the old area was really nice. Not so much into the more modern part, especially not the concrete buildings around the Europalaan. It has been around 20 years ago I was there for the last time, so maybe things have improved.

@dutchman7623 Год назад

Zoetermeer or Zoutermeer, only one letter difference, but makes Sweet Lake City into Salt Lake City! The reference to the city in Utah also come from the biggest Mormon Temple in Europe situated there.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

So interesting, that makes much more sense. Appreciate you sharing!

@marieke4647 Год назад

Do the stores still close for lunch?

@ducoschollmeijer4841 Год назад

Can you go to Rotterdam? There is some cool stuff to do there!

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

We actually have a video on Rotterdam from a while ago, but it was during Covid lockdowns. We also just celebrated King’s Day there. We’re probably due for a revisit soon, though.

@Dutch1961 Год назад

I live 13 minutes from the museum.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Awesome, have you been?

@SquirrelMonkeyCom Год назад

She says "Zoetermeer" right, but the stress should be on the last syllable: "zooter'MEHR".

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

“She” says thanks for the pronunciation tip!

@evertjethoe Год назад

Zoeter= sweeter Meer = lake

@mart9453 Год назад

Hi there.whe cant w8 allot of days..who won the hot pepper challenge.😂😂😂🔥👍

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

The video is up now!

@NecramoniumVideo 15 дней назад

The best thing you can do is in Zoetermeer, is get the hell out to the next city, ROFL.

@Dutch-linux Год назад

you should come to limburg maastricht,sittard or valkenburg and take eric and tammy with you

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Sounds like fun!

@davidc.w.2908 Год назад

I have worked in Zoetermeer in IT as well and I used to go to a gym there too. The city itself is not my cup of tea.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Definitely could see how it wouldn’t be for everyone. It’s certainly not the most picturesque city in The Netherlands.

@vanderquast Год назад

Zoetermeer is not more than a suburb of The Hague. It is big but has no interesting history like Leiden, Delft or Haarlem. Seems to be an affordable place to live for families, and has some interesting leisure facilities for the whole region. Not a city I would recommend a tourist to go and visit.

@TAndTGoDutch Год назад

Perhaps not, but we really enjoyed our time there and wanted to showcase some of the sights we found interesting.

@clifffan3 Год назад

I agree, I lived in Zoetermeer and worked in The Hague, it was realy nice to live there It was end 70th and beginning 80 th, even the sprinter wasnt there. I saw cows from my window.

@ohhi5237 3 месяца назад

its been there for a thousand years or so, therefor it cannot be a suburb of anything

@ohhi5237 3 месяца назад

i wouldnt send any tourist to haarlem or leiden either, small villages with one single street of interest