In this video, I take you on a POV cycling tour of a small Dutch town nobody talks about. I’m probably the first American in the Netherlands to document this particular area on YouTube, and I hope I’m not the last. Because this area has offered a culture shock WITHIN a culture shock.
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EEL is the first to comment.
it is not wassen…lol V and double AA. Wassen means to wash.
If you stop at the stone toadstools, you can see where you are heading, I saw one at the beginning of the video..
LOL Wild rooster…. wild rhymes with chilled, rooster rhymes with boaster, cattle grid would be English term… roster/grid, in the road, to stop animals with hooves from passing.
That light in the sky is called the "sun", in the evening, it is low in the west, want to drive back? Drive east.., and read the place names on the stone "toadstool" ..at the beginning of your ride..
You are def not a person to put in central Amsterdam. šI see you love nature and some peace and quiet (sorry for my english š¤¦š¼āāļøIām trying š )
Beautiful!!!
wildrooster = game grid. The path you turned in is actually not a cycle path but a hiking trail. The water has that color because of iron in the soil.
Spring started on Thursday 20th March. When did you record this video?
Vaassen is on the border of forests, and river valley grass lands, along the river IJssel, the forests are to the west of Vaassen (..V is to F what s is too z remember, in Dutch, NOT A WWW not even close and two aa's so aaaaaah…So you do not need to wash…:)
That near the stop sighn was a toadstool with place names, telling you where you are heading..
Vaassen, not Wassen ;). Your pronunciation of "Gelderland" is spot on though
We don't even like cereals in the Netherlands, so why kill them… the toad stool has the place names, and how many km it is to the next village…it is specially there for bikers.
7.30 on your right hand a sign, i guess Natuurmonumenten. It is an answer to what kind of property it is.
Today 3.27, that is definitely spring. Mostly in December you can already see the buds in the trees. Might be a bit later in the east of the country.
your bike picked up a twigg I think
After seeing the lady at 2:00, I just know that she rides horses because, further up in the video, there are fields of horses.š
Damn, 'that house' is awesome!!
Don't show them, now they want to go here with their little rolling suitcases and Nutella pancake shops..
I like these types of videos. Lovely scenery.
7:29 Oh yeah, definitely. In more rural areas people will cycle for fun all the time on weekends and stuff, at least for the few months a year where the weather's nice.
14:42 Nature reserve. The circular symbol is a general Dutch road sign, forbidding you from driving any vehicles up there from either end. But then the first exception below states that bicycles are allowed, and the second one gives an additional pass to motorized vehicles on the condition that your property happens to connect to the path.
That kinda shit is actually pretty easy to figure out nowadays with a phone. "Road signs in the Netherlands" on Wikipedia will tell you all the basics and then you can just use some translation app for any text that's tagged on.
17:14 Yep, spot on.
The water contains a lot of iron 08:20
The red water is because of the iron in the soil.
Guess you still had 4/5g data coverage on your cell phoneš¤£
So no getting lost.
Spring's about to come, be prepared for sheer green fireworks! š this part of the country is soo beautiful the coming 7 months.
Haha just when I thought you where doing a great job de-americanifying your brain you start talking about kidnapping and knifes…. whilst amids million dollar homes…. LOL!š¤£
You picked wrong time of year. May and June are awesome when all thet trees are out
There are lots of these type of areas in The Netherlands. Just go out of the overly crowded Holland provinces.. allthough, if you do your research, even there are a few rural gems..
Am i the only listening as to how the bike sounds?. My bike-ocd kicks in. But imho it needs some love and attention. I like your vids btw.
New Dutch homes are buiilt with high quality materials and some take over a year to build. not cheap McMansions with paper thin walls.
Have you visited 'Cannenburch' castle in Vaassen yet? It's not big but still quite a sight…
My house ';s back door is to the forest. I live in protected Nature preserve. I have had deer jump actross my path when biking
Just carry your phone and use Google Maps,. It will talk your way out.
The fences with the thin wire and the wide mesh are normally just there to keep deer away so they don't destroy the new shoots. It doesn't even have to be private property.
I had a very similar experience as you with the lovely sunlight and was cycling through the fields here on the outskirts of Berlin, one hour ago. And I actually saw one of the wild roosters. I see them from time to time; and even dear I encounterey, but they are very common here.
My address is Dwarsweg 5 , Overber,g 3959AC. find it on Google Maps and use Street View to ddrive around my area
The drain water at 8:28 is just dirty water.
I meet couples from USA all the time in the summer thaet are biking their way all over Netherlands and camping. they have saddle bags on front and back full of their gear.,
You'll be amazed. These houses are definitely on-grid. Most have connection to the sewer, gas and now even fiber systems. The Netherlands is a city that looks like a country.
I'm sorry about your typical american paranoid mindset. We haven't had a serial killer in years and knife crime does not happen in places like Vaassen.
This is a great video. The nature is very beautiful as always, and the houses are very nice.šš
Even the dirt roads have asphalt bikeways.
0:34 the straw roofs are so cool , typical Dutch roof
The 'Wild Rooster' stands for Wildlife Grid in the road. The warning is for drivers not to get startled by the change of road noise, which can be pretty loud inside a car.. It has nothing to do with a male version of a chicken, some of which would warrant warning signs since they can be pretty aggressive and hazardous.
6:00 thatās the rooster you just drove over, think itās to make sure wild animals canāt cross over it because their feet would get stuck
Gorgeous! Winter on good days like these brings out the best in our countryside. Spring's almost in the air, but it's not quite there yet… Enjoying your bike rides, so keep it up! š
Wow, you made it out of the forest where every American always completely disappears for ever.. Unless this is found footage. š
More of these nature rides please. This one was too short.
Your pronounciation of Gelderland is spot on, like true Dutch without an accent. Amazing.