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- What's up guys?
It's Andy Feliciotti and welcome to the Netherlands.
So, me and a couple of friends, and my girlfriend,
are here visiting friends, so it's a lot of friends,
and we're staying here in Haarlem
which is about a 15 minute train ride out from Amsterdam,
so today we're gonna be headin' into Amsterdam,
exploring some photo spots and
a lot of the places are street names
and bridges I can't pronounce,
so I'll probably putting them, some text at the bottom.
We've done all the touristy stuff also.
I'll talk about that at the end of the video,
tulip fields, things like that, but yeah,
let's head to Amsterdam and take the train.
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So the first stop you'll notice when you
hope out if the Amsterdam train station
is these canal houses.
It's probably like one of the most
Instgrammed spots in Amsterdam.
What do you guys think?
- It smells like urine.
- I think they're pretty cool.
I like the reflection on the water.
- [Andy] Kristy?
- There's lots of houses like this everywhere.
- They're actually all under construction right now,
so don't come today.
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So right now we're at--how do you say it?
- Lekker--Lekkeresluis.
- There you go.
- Lekkeresluis.
- Yeah, it's a cool bridge.
- Lekker means tasty.
- Okay, well it's pretty tasty.
- Tasty bridge.
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- It's King's Day eve and there's literally
just trucks everywhere, so--
- Kongers dag nat.
- [Andy] What does that mean?
- King's Day night.
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- [Meagan] How do you pronounce this?
- Torensluis Brug Nine.
- Torensluis.
Torensluis.
- For sake of time, it's Brug Nine.
Looks pretty cool.
Brug Nine.
- Brug.
- Nice.
- Alright, Garth Brugs.
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We're at Leidsegracht.
- Gracht.
It's graht.
Leidsegracht.
- Okay, I'll put a subtitle.
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How was the Rijksmuseum?
- It was very crowded.
I got to see Rembrandt's Night Watch
and Vermeer's Little Street.
- Also, they removed the Eye of Amsterdam thing here.
I know, I'm a tourist at heart.
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When you're in the Netherlands
you gotta get a stroopwafel.
This one's kind of big.
What do you think Kristy?
- It's good!
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- This is the Botanical Garden.
Wait, Meagan, what is it?
- Ah, Hortus Botanicus.
It's one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world.
- Not too shabby.
- It started as a herb garden for nine doctors.
- And we arrived late, so we only have
five minutes to explore all of it.
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I am back in DC.
Thanks again for watching.
I hope everybody enjoyed it.
I know this video focused mainly on Amsterdam,
but I thought I'd go into a little bit more detail,
so when we first got into town we stayed at The Hague.
That's where our friends Jess and Tyler live.
Shout out to you guys.
A really cute town.
We actually rented bikes from there and
took them on the train and biked to Keukenhof
which is like, the tulip--
It's basically Disney World for tulips.
It was packed with tourists,
but the bike ride there, we got to see plenty of fields
while we were biking and there weren't anybody near them
and they even had like, barbed wire some on them
to keep tourists out, so if you head to Keukenhof
I really recommend exploring the area.
This was the only time I got to fly my drone also,
so that was nice to be able to do that.
So after we stayed in Hague, we actually headed to Haarlem
for an Air BnB and let me tell you,
this Air BnB was quite nice.
It was actually two floors.
It was at the top of town house, so we had two bedrooms
and we stayed with Miranda and Kristy,
and it was just so modern and sleek
and really had a great view out the window also.
In addition to exploring Haarlem,
we also went to Leiden and Delft.
It was good to see lots of other small towns
in Netherlands.
We also went to Gouda, which is pronounced how-da,
and got to see the cheese market going on,
and me and Meagan also took a train,
it was about a three hour train ride to Germany, Cologne
and had lots of sausage as you would expect,
so it was pretty good.
Only there for a few hours and took a nap in the park,
but it was quite relaxing.
So, if you head to Netherlands I really recommend
hopping on a train and just exploring everything.
The train system is absolutely incredible there,
so you can come and go all over.
I hope you enjoy this video.
Remember to follow me on Instagram,
my username is @someguy and thanks for watching!
See ya!
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