Welcome to Amsterdam
Finally going to see our first ever German Christmas market.
Welcome back to our Christmas adventures here in Europe.
If you are just tuning in,
we're pretty much celebrating Jess's ultimate European Christmas.
and we are only a week in and we've done Finland,
London and now we've just arrived in a brand new country.
We currently in the Netherlands.
So when we were planning this little Christmas getaway,
which by the way my parents have gate crashed for this month long trip,
we're looking at little fun things to do.
And one of them was a Christmas market cruise,
which is going to take us to a couple of destinations.
The first one being Amsterdam.
So yesterday we jumped on a little ship in London Tilbury.
Is everyone ready for their cruise? Yeah, everyone's ready.
Everyone's ready. Wow.
We've been on a couple of cruises already and this one is very magical cause
they've set it up in full Christmas decorations. You know,
you're on a Christmas cruise when you're walking through to grab a snack and
just in the middle hall people are busting out into Christmas carols.
So we just checked into our room.
So what we've done is cause there's a family cruise.
We both decided to be back to back and we have inside cabins.
So this is for me and Jess. Mom and dad have the exact same room,
just next door. Honestly, super spacious so we have our bed just here.
Desk area tea and coffee making facilities because we've noticed if you leave
from England,
this seems to be the thing cause everyone from England loves having their tea.
Got a TV in the corner over here, walk through,
have a little walk in robe so we can actually unpack for the week.
Put our bags just down there and come in here. Here's our bathroom,
got a shower in there. Should be good. Also,
we did kind of leave a bit late. They had some high winds.
So it's about six o'clock. We're meant to leave about four hours ago.
So I think what they've done is, which is super nice.
He's given us celebratory Christmas start of the cruise.
Yes,
There we go.
It's the cruise.
Is this the party cabin?
This is the party cabin, where it all happens.
So we've officially arrived in Amsterdam.
But we actually decided this time to leave the city.
We actually jumped on a train half an hour out of the main city and we have
come, I feel like it is the most picturesque Netherlands landscape. Like,
when you think of the Netherlands This is what I picture.. There are windmills.
They're cute little houses, right on the water and no big buildings anwyhere.
This area is so nice cause you have like the traditional Netherlands houses just
over here and then the windmills right on the river.
So back in around the 18th 19th century,
there were over a 1,000 windmills here when it was in its heyday.
So it would do wheat, it would do paint, it would do so many different things.
Now there are only 13 left and there are still some working today,
which you can actually go inside. How picturesque is this?
Amazing. Also to think that this used to be lined with hundreds and hundreds of
windmills. Wow. Okay.
Stevie!
Hello.
So we've actually come inside one of the working windmills.
This is one of the paint windmills I was telling you guys about
it. The cogs were just being moved by the windmill just before.
You tell him how this is one of the last working paint windmills in this world?
How cool is that? Look it's turning
and twisting.
Oh wow. Oh, the windmill is still going
look up.
Whoa. That's so cool. We're on like a
Dutch windmill.
It's a little farm.
That's some fat goats.
Welcome to Amsterdam.
Not only can you see windmills over here but they,
have an entire handmade clog workshop.
So we just saw a guy making clogs.
This is the like traditional Netherlands kind of shoe all made out of wood.
You tried one on?
I'm going to wear this for the rest of Holiday. I think I should have my clogs.
Pretty quiet. If you're trying to sneak out of the house,
what does it feel like? It's comfortable,
So I'm not sure if I didn't wear them right.
I guess you are wearing big wooden blocks on your feet.
I
think I found Amsterdam Santa.
So just be walking around Amsterdam.
They actually don't do that Christmas markets till the week of Christmas,
but it's still very jolly here. Amsterdam, Santa, I see
It's the next day and it is the moment that we've been waiting for you guys as
well. We had now arrived in Hamburg,
in Germany and we are finally going to see our first ever German Christmas
market.
This is like top of the bucket list when it comes to Christmas and we have just
walked over to it and it is even better than what I was expecting.
One thing that we've noticed is,
is it a thing to put apples on German Christmas tree?
This is all so magical. I feel like when you think of a European Christmas,
this is what I think of. There's the smell of all the bakeries or the sausages.
There's ornaments everywhere. There are people roasting chestnuts.
Germany is the place to be for Christmas.
Aw. I feel like when you come to markets, it's 90% about the food. Right.
And we couldn't come to Germany and not try the sausage, the bratwurst.
So we've got a sausage onions sauce in a bun Ready?
Go! First of many foods today. That's good?
We all went for the same thing. Very original. So we found our next shop,
this is the hand made Christmas ornaments store and honestly,
as good as all the food is,
this seems to be the one with the longest line to get into.
So there must only let a certain amount of people inside.
Stevie. The choices have started. What do we get?
You have a basket? This is dangerous. I like that.
That's kind of cute. Maybe that's an option. Okay. Take it as an option?
Someone's selling bratwurst.
Guys,
the choices are very hard because it's just the one that needs to represent this
trip.
So what you can do is you pay three euros for the cup and then you go and get
your Hot chocolate.
You can get your money back. If you don't want to keep it,
Or you can just take the mug with you.
Then you can just walk around and top it up with Glühwein, hot chocolate.
You just walk around as you go shopping.
I think these are German beignets
and they are hot. Fresh out of the fryer.
Good?
Yeah they look so naughty and so good.
So we've got beignets and now we're just going to be walking from Christmas
market to Christmas market,
so they are doing a Christmas parade and we're walking down to it.
It's just around the corner from the Christmas markets.
There's some more Christmas markets. The Entire city is in a festive mood.
and another Christmas market.
Come on, let's go. Jess has joined in on the parade.
Wow the markets Look
even more magical once the sun set and the Christmas lights are showing
It's the next day just off in Germany making a way back to the UK and it's a day
at sea. but I think this is the roughest day at sea we have ever had.
Jess is currently, not feeling to good so shes's down in the room,
but I thought I would come out here it is so windy.
They have even emptied out the second pool just here. Alrighty.
We are back on land after a bit of a crazy day at sea.
And I wanted to show you what ornaments we ended up getting at the German
Christmas market. This was the first one. Nice. Cute.
And then we also got another Santa, but this time he's a big fat flying.
Santa's.
I like him. And then the last one,
which is kind of meant to make us remember Germany because they were selling a
lot of gingerbread. We've got this little gingerbread man.
and he's kinda cute cause like he's heads disconnected and the legs kind of just
hang.
I guess that ends up amazing German Christmas market time.
So hope you guys enjoyed that.
Kind of look at these two countries at Christmas time.
The very next episode is the official flying the nest Christmas special.
This is the fifth one. Yes. We filmed four Christmases already. Wow.
Do on this channel. That just shows how Tom cruise so quickly. Yeah.
But if you guys are new around here,
I'll make sure you hit subscribe so you don't miss the Christmas special.
And if you're waiting for that,
I'll link the other ones below if you wanna go check them up.
But thanks so much for watching guys. We'll see you next time.