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American Reacts to Dutch Countryside Cycling is the Best in the World: 5 Reasons Why
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That video is mainly about leisure. The real cool thing is that everyone (almost) commutes by bike on work days, or at least cycles to the train station. And possibly has a second work bike at the destination station as well, to get to the office. I have Dutch friends who have two crappy bikes for work, and a nice bike for recreation on weekends. Kids, grannies, working parents, students everyone (who's able to) rides a bike at some time.
Hey man, if you would like to have some more footage of dutch country side / farm lands small towns like the place of the wind mills you can contact me and make some for you with a motorcycle ride
13.07 there's probably a dog in that cart
A great follow up video for this would be you going to the Netherlands and trying their bike paths. But if you can’t go to the Netherlands in the foreseeable future, you may as well try some of their food. My recommendations are the Dutch croquette, frikandel, and stroopwafels. I’m sure you can buy the stroopwafles on line, but I’m not too sure about the Dutch croquettes or the frikandel. I’m originally from the Netherlands, but I live in Canada and the city I live has a few places where they carry all of these and much more. I hope you get a chance to try all of these and more. I know you’ll love them.
In North Carolina you have the tabaco route. Very well maintained with rest areas Vert nice bike route
In the summer I like to tour with my Electric Wheelchair through the Dutch countryside. 😎
Maybe look also to the most Dutch town in America Pella ,Iowa.
A big misunderstanding, big error, nobody talks about it, is the walkability off a big city, you can ! but sometimes not feasible you have to bike or take public transport. Big mistake off tourists (like US citizens heard off walking) Ooh it looks like a half hour walk on a map.
I recognised a lot of the places in that video.. that is where i live..and indeed.. roads are very much planned with cyclists in mind.. that roundabout with the Cyclepath right over the middle, that is a 10 minute bikeride from my house.. ( https://maps.app.goo.gl/pzNbgLYHxzzEHFhZ9 )
It's there because it sits in a road, where cars can go 100 Km/h (60Mph), the N359, so not a place for bikes.. but next to that is a "Secondary road" for people living there, and for Cyclists..
I sometimes visit my parents by bike.. it's 11 Km so that's a 20 minute bikeride for me.. and with that scenery.. why wouldn't you take the bike?
'Knooppunt' routes are the scenic routes – They are definitely not the fastest routes. But I do tend to take them if I can spare the time.
Also; one gets spoiled by the excellent Dutch bicycle infrastructure markings. Once I cross over into Germany things deteriorate quickly and carrying a (digital) map becomes a must. To be fair – the Germans are steadily upgrading their biking infrastructure.
Love the video Charlie !!❤👍
lol, there are no honesty boxes in the Amsterdam centre. Just as you say , only in small places, otherwise it would simply not work. We have dishonest people aswell, and homeless people for instance. Ofcourse they wouldnt treat an honesty box like it should be treated.
Funny, for me as a Dutch,this is just everyday life. Maybe Americans should take a note or two when building infrastructure .
Indiana is about the same latitude as Portugal/Spain while The Netherlands are on the same latitude as Newfoundland/Labrador.
Check out the channels Not Just Bikes and Active Towns if you want to see more of this kind of video. They are both from a North-American perspective as well, which is quite fascinating.
You might want to look up glow in the dark bike paths, they will blow your mind, I promise. They absorb sunrays by day so they can light up at night (with a beautiful bluish color) , thereby illuminating the way for people on their bicycles. There are glowing bikepaths in The Netherlands, Poland, Hungary as of now that I know of, but they are becoming more and more popular, so most likely other countries will also use this "technology".
The most exciting thing about Dutch roads to me is the fact that almost all highways are constructed using ZOAB (Pervious concrete) which practically eliminates any spray from it during showers or when it's wet.
I am from the east countryside in the Netherlands. And in the spring / summer and autumn, we love to cycle around here. My town is surrounded by forests and farms and rivers. Love walking the dog in the early morning when none is awake yet.. you hear the water from the streams and the wind through the trees, and the birds sing. It's so amazing. Don't get me wrong, I love going to big cities but .. on the road going home, i always feel surrounded by peace and feel home again . I am such a Countrygirl. I could never leave ( unless it is to another countryside )
Whenever us Dutch see footage of bad quality road we often like to joke that it's probably Belgium, because the contrast between the quality of infrastructure between The Netherlands and Belgium is enormous. Fun fact, even in Belgium there is a huge contrast in quality of infrastructure between the north and south. I once traveled to the southern border and it was shocking to me how bad things are there. Overgrown signs, weeds growing onto the road, entire sections of road missing without any sign or warning about it, ghost-towns. It reminded me of East-Germany in the 90's.
I'd say Japan is probably the one country where you can say there is no crime, in specific areas.
Since the migrant-crisis here in The Netherlands you do see news articles of Honesty Box providers saying they can't do it anymore because refugees staying at a local AZC (migrant center) keep stealing the goods and money. It's very sad. A lot of communities view migrants as a source of crime and protest against their municipalities hosting them in a AZC.
6:50 here in Middelburg all of the old-city center has signs saying that cars are guests, pedestrians and cyclists have primary right of way. Of course this leads to ignorant folks beeping their horn if you're cycling in their way.
4:00 do you have separated bike-lanes like that in Indiana?
Nowadays it's less relaxing, because of e-bikes. They are just so fast and silent, I get jump-scared whenever one passes me with a perfectly functioning bell on their steering wheel they don't use.
I know you live in a town that starts with an R. I'm from there too but have been living in Germany for 14 years. Parts of the Netherlands also remind me of back home. I travel there
often for a bit of nostalgia.
At 8:32 that roundabout is just 2 miles from my home 🤣Great !!! I pas this when I go to the forest. At 12:56 is the main street of Balk my home town (this is hilarious)
In Belgium we have bicycle nodes as well. Also fietssnelweg network in the build up fase. Often based om river tow paths and disussed railroads + tramways. All extending into the Netherlands and northern France. Major bicycle races coming up soon. Amateur racers everywhere. We are on the north south path on the Leie river near the French border. Lots of southbound bicycle tourists frm the Netherlands and daytrippers passing by and switching routes (Kezelbergroute) to Brugges, Ypres or Tournai.
The Netherlands is more like the same horizontal level worldwide as Winnipeg Canada, but we have a sea climate. So no real extreme weather (cold/warm), but a bit more wind and rain
Thanks for sharing this video, it's quite cool & would be neat to see more 3 wheeled bikes around. We don't have much of a biking culture where I live in Australia. I think, like the USA, things are just so far apart unless you're right near the city or shops. We do have a lot of cyclists, but it seems to mostly be for sport than daily life: back and forth to work, etc.
Have you ever checked out any hikers from the Netherlands or Sweden & Norway? You can Google Kungsleden (It means King's Trail in Swedish), it is a 300-mile trail through some amazing park land in Sweden. I recommend watching Brandon, a Canadian who lives in Sweden & works in Ukraine. For mental health reasons he took on the challenge of hiking the Kungsleden trail when he was home on leave. His trail videos are full of ups and downs, and he seems to easily meet folks and ends up having several walking companions along the trail. https://youtu.be/hhnX5lM3JuU?si=TRVCY6KLxCWlZcTQ
lemme see that infrastructure in your neighbourhood man!
Hmzzzzz welllll it is sad of course that you are in a country or actually three to destroy it but next time go to Vietnam with money and not bombs…. perhaps you can then also witness what we witness ya know : people and nature….. so I dunno …. we Dutch got breautiful nature sure … but nothing compared to countries like Vietnam and Cambodia and ya know other places that you yanks try to destroy now LUCKILY ….. we humans can still go there because the people said F U !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are not bringing us down hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll no …. we are building upo and coming back stronger well that only goes for Vietnam and we Dutch got NOTHING on Vietnam when it comes to INSANE beautiful mountains… people who ALWAYS want to help when you are out of fuel and your bike is thristy on fuel somewhere ya know 2 kilometers up sooooo I dunno …. you want real nature ? Go to Austria orrrrr ya know the Swiss got some nice nature… or like I said go to Asia….. and ENJOY the fact they still ALLOW you yanks in ! Just saying !!!!!
when do you come to the netherlands, be my guest,