- Tentoon.
- Tentoon-stellings-winkel.
- Winkel. - Tentoonstellingswinkel.
- What does that mean?
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Good morning all. Fifth of January, 2019,
opening up the vlog.
We're on our way to the Van Gogh Museum
here at Amsterdam, Netherlands.
It is our last day here.
We're flying out at 3:30 this afternoon back to the UK
where the Europe adventure continues.
And yeah, so it's what, 8:30,
9 in the morning,
just left our hotel.
As per yesterday morning, this is what it looks like.
Overcast.
So yeah, we're off to the Van Gogh Museum.
We only managed to get the ticket
because we booked a combination ticket
with a boat canal cruise tour.
So if you want to buy Van Gogh tickets last minute,
you probably won't have any luck,
unless you buy it with a combination with something else.
So keep that in mind, you might pay a little bit extra
but it's the only way you get a last minute ticket, I think,
to the Van Gogh Museum.
We're going back to Luza's for coffee,
same place we went to yesterday.
I just noticed the name of it.
So funny, check this out, Luza's.
Let's get a Luza coffee.
Oh! - [Robyn] Wow!
Look at that. - [Brad] Wow!
Look at that.
- [Robyn] Traditional apple pie.
Can you imagine what that tastes like?
- [Brad] Oh, carrot cake, look!
- [Robyn] But look at it, it's brown.
- It's colder today.
It's Arctic temperatures.
Approaching the middle of winter here.
Oh, let's go back to Thailand, Robs.
- Okay, let's go.
- If you guys haven't seen our Thailand series,
go and check it out because it's very different.
All right, so if you ever come here,
make sure you do the Heineken Experience.
I'll show you.
Yesterday, there was a giant queue
at the front of this place.
It's a massive tourist attraction
for Heineken's first brewery.
Anyway, we walked past this place yesterday morning
and it was a massive queue, seriously.
I'll show you.
It was from there, all the way down here,
the queue went all the way around.
It opens, I think, from 10 o'clock in the morning,
or 10:30 in the morning.
It's like 9 o'clock now, so.
And there's already four people waiting, so.
Made a joke yesterday that you have a greater chance
of being hit by a bicycle here in Amsterdam,
than you do by getting hit by a tram, or a train,
or a bus, or a car, or something like that.
There's so many bicycles here.
It's like scooters in Thailand.
Everybody seems to own a bicycle,
and yeah, when you cross the road here,
oh, we've had a couple of close,
I've had a couple of close calls
where I've almost been hit by a bicycle.
Anyway, on our way. (bells chiming)
Oh, look, how's that for timing.
I just starting recording
and the the bells started chiming.
All right, this is the Rijksmuseum.
- [Robyn] We better hurry up because it's 9:30.
- [Brad] Oh, is it?
- [Robyn] It's our slot.
(bells chiming)
- That's a very popular tourist attraction,
that Rijksmuseum.
We haven't had a chance to go in there
and I don't think we'll get a chance to go in there
on this trip, unfortunately.
But you'll get to see the outside of it.
It's very nice.
All right, I think we're here, Van Gogh Museum.
At our 9:30 in the morning time slot.
This is it, huh, this is the outside of the museum.
Very nice cafes and things.
I can see it.
I'll just show people what it looks like on the outside.
I'll turn you around.
So that's the Van Gogh Museum, right over there.
Yeah? - [Robyn] Yeah.
Nice cafes.
Look where we are.
- [Robyn] Hi.
(electronic beeping)
- [Brad And Robyn] Thank you.
- [Robyn] Straight in front.
- [Brad] Oh! - [Robyn] I love it so much.
- We're here guys, Van Gogh Museum.
She's really happy, Rob's just been wanting to do this
for a while now, huh?
Haven't you, Robs? - I'm really happy.
- She's an artist, she's a watercolour specialist.
- [Robyn] I'm oil.
- [Brad] Oil specialist.
- More oil than watercolour.
- Still trying to figure it out.
Do we need a coffee?
- [Robyn] So in a decade, he painted about
over 2000 paintings.
Tentoon. - Tentoon-stellings-winkel.
- Winkel. - Tentoonstellingswinkel.
- Winkel.
What does that mean?
Tentoonstellingswinkel.
- [Robyn] Exhibition Shop.
It's so interesting. - That's a mouthful.
Tentoonstellingswinkel.
Got our little audio guides.
So it's an hour and a half long, right?
- [Robyn] Yeah, that's what I understood.
Well, we're going to finish these coffees off,
and we can't take them in.
Not sure what content we can collect when we're in there,
probably nothing, and that's okay.
But should probably make it on the top of your list.
I am not a painter, per se, and I'm here.
Rob's here, who's been wanting to do this for a while.
- Famous Dutch painter.
- Make an effort to come here,
and with the tickets and stuff, as I mentioned,
we couldn't get tickets.
- [Robyn] Book in advance.
All, Rijksmuseum. - Book everything in advance.
- Everything.
- I wish we got to see Anne Frank.
- We just don't plan when we travel.
- No, we know. - As much as we should.
- We're going to do differently, aren't we?
- And this is the price you pay
when you literally book two days in advance
to come to a country.
(inquisitive music)
So we've just walked out of the Van Gogh Museum.
Absolutely amazing.
We'll give a full debrief on it later.
We're actually in a rush
to get back to our room to check out.
Strict check out, 12 o'clock, it's 11:45.
But just quickly, Van Gogh, absolutely inspiring.
Started off very enthusiastically
at the beginning of the exhibition,
and at the end, was very sombre.
For me, the emotional aspect of him dying
at such an early age by shooting himself in the chest,
he went through a whole life journey of him
trying to figure his style of painting,
and how he crafted that, and how he was influenced
by other artists around him,
and anyway, talk about this later.
I'm not giving the debrief justice, but it's a quick one.
If you ever come to Amsterdam,
you definitely have to, even for non-artists alike,
definitely make an effort to come and check it out.
Anyway, so we got to get back to our room.
We've literally got 15 minutes,
without getting hit by a bicycle on the way home.
(inquisitive music)
(electronic beeping)
(engine roaring)
(inquisitive music)
All right.
- All righty then. - All righty then.
Good evening, everybody, 10 o'clock in the evening,
5th of January, end of the day, end of the vlog.
Now, we're back in Whitstable, UK.
We just flew in from Amsterdam, maybe a few hours ago,
and we went and saw the Van Gogh Museum,
and were in a bit of a rush from the museum
back to our hotel room to check out,
to get to the airport to fly back to the UK.
So we didn't get a chance to properly do a debrief.
But I wanted to talk a bit about
the Van Gogh Museum experience,
and also Amsterdam in general.
And I mentioned about how everybody
should definitely get a ticket
to the Van Gogh Museum, in advance,
because it does sell out in advance.
And you can get it last minute like we did,
if you get a combination ticket
with something else.
So the Van Gogh Museum ticket with a canal river cruise
of whatever it is, cruise ticket,
like a combination ticket.
But it's definitely worth it.
Now, I want to say that the Van Gogh experience
was absolutely amazing.
It was such an eye-opening experience
to the life of the artist of Van Gogh himself.
I didn't know anything about this guy,
except that he was one of
the most famous artists of all time,
but going to the museum was a real eye-opener for me
because you actually go through a bit of a timeline.
Three levels of a timeline of a man
who started with doing portraits of himself.
He had no money and was trying to find his way
with his own, basically, his own style,
practising on his own portrait.
He didn't have any money for models so he used himself.
And then over time when he moved to Paris,
he went to Japan, he was influenced,
you could see that in his paintings.
And we went through this audio tour
where it explained the whole process
and the whole timeline of his journey
of how he crafted his own art.
And for me, the major takeaway for that experience
was the fact that he was so consistent
with how he put out art.
He literally put out 70 pieces of art in 76 days,
which is super impressive
because when I think about it from a vlogging perspective,
and putting out videos,
I think about how it's super important
to put out videos on a regular basis
to hone my own craft when it comes to putting out content.
And like anything else, you need to be consistent with,
if you want to be good at anything in life,
you really need to be consistent
with putting out that thing,
whether you're a writer, a podcaster,
a video maker, or a vlogger,
I really resonated with that aspect of his craft,
putting out consistent art.
And that's how he became good at his craft.
What about you, Robs, what was your key takeaway
from that experience?
- Oh gosh, well, for me, as an artist,
looking at his process,
and the way that he developed his style,
and how long it actually took to do that,
just reminds me of my own process.
So, as an artist, I have a long way to go.
And to also see how he was influenced by
other peers at his time.
He got involved in community, but he actually stepped away,
and by stepping away and sort of listening to his own voice,
and practising in his own time,
he developed his own style,
and that just spoke to me a lot
because I'm going through that process myself.
So, yeah.
- And what else did you take away from it?
- Well, the consistency, again,
exactly what you've mentioned.
And a guy that, looking at his circumstances,
and he was against some very difficult circumstances
that he had to deal with,
yet he persevered with his true love of life, which was art.
So no matter where he was,
whether he was living back with his parents,
surrounded by peasants, and finding the joy,
finding the absolute joy
in every situation he found himself in,
the inspiration, and painting that,
and putting that out there.
And touching into the real lives of people,
it was really touching.
And he struggled with a mental disorder
which was also against him,
but he continued and he produced some amazing work.
- And I think three hours, four hours maybe,
we didn't do a lot of.
- There was a second exhibition we didn't even make.
- Yeah, so that was the letters.
So there's three levels, but we didn't have time.
We had like 90 minutes but we didn't have time
to see the whole thing.
So if you're really super keen,
maybe three hours is enough time to see the whole thing
and really appreciate what this man did,
and how he contributed in influencing the art community.
- And also, what I find fascinating
is that he only really found out this passion
later on in life.
- Well, that's right.
- And he was 27 years old.
- That's right.
- Before that, he was an art dealer,
and then he took courage and followed his passion.
- It's really interesting to point out,
I know it's a bit of a ramble,
but everybody thinks that they should figure that out
at like 20, or 18, or 15, or whatever it is.
But the truth is, this man, 27, brushing 30,
only figured it out,
but then became the most influential artist in the world.
The man did it at 27.
- And within three years, it was in three years
that he actually pumped out all this work.
- Pumped out so much content.
- Yeah, so it didn't take him long,
but it took consistency and passion and dedication,
and you could see that.
He was completely committed to his art.
- That's it.
But otherwise, Amsterdam is a very,
like, the architecture, and the.
- [Robyn] Ice skating.
- [Brad] Museums and the ice skating.
- [Robyn] Ice skating, that was really fun.
- [Brad] Just amazing.
Amazing.
And that's it, back in the UK.
- For the next adventure.
So if you have any questions about Amsterdam,
let us know, let me know.
We're back in Whitstable, UK, right now.
Anything else, Robs, you want to add,
before I close off this video?
- No, it's just been, well, just to say it's a lot of fun.
It's been a lot of fun.
So you got some great content coming your way.
Belgium, Brussels, chocolates.
What's his name?
I always forget the little boy's name.
- Manneken Pis.
- [Robyn] Yes, him. (chuckles)
- [Brad] Strange.
- [Robyn] Let's say, it was a very random trip
but it was so much fun.
- Yeah, Brussels, Belgium.
- I don't know if you're going to show everyone
you down the slopes a little bit.
- [Brad] Yeah, okay, snowboarding.
Like, I mean, I've snowboarded for 30 minutes
prior to the snowboarding adventure at SnowWorld.
- [Robyn] You did so well.
- [Brad] Apparently, I did well.
- [Robyn] You actually didn't even fall that much.
- [Brad] I fell on my face.
(laughter)
- [Robyn] He caught edge, guys.
- [Brad] It hurts.
I felt it.
- He caught edge. - I felt it.
- You got to do that.
Anyway, anyway, anyway,
so moving forward, we're either going to be shooting content
in Scotland or shooting content in London.
Stick around for that.
We don't even know what we're doing.
- Nope.
- Yep, you'll find out in the next video, or two.
- Mm-hm.
- All right guys.
Have a good night, day, and see you later.
- Cheerio. - Bye-bye.
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