3 DAYS in Rotterdam! [Food, sights & Kinderdijk!]

We spent 3 full days exploring Rotterdam (including Kinderdijk!), wanting to understand whether it's underrated. How does it compare to Amsterdam? You'll have to watch to find out which one we prefer! We also visit Kinderdijk, where Bill finally gets to fly his drone!
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In case you like skipping around:
00:00 Rotterdam!
01:01 Kapsalon
02:35 Market Hall
03:14 Bitterballen
04:52 Original Stroopwaffles
06:47 Kapsalon History
07:30 Delfshaven
11:00 Indonesian food in Netherlands
12:22 Old Harbor
13:03 Cube Houses
15:00 Poffertjes
16:53 Stadhuis
18:08 St Lawrence Church
18:33 Largest dutch organ
20:39 Maritime Museum
21:42 Is Rotterdam underrated?
22:49 Kinderdijk from Rotterdam
23:30 First windmill
25:24 UNESCO Heritage Site
27:00 History of Kinderdijk's name
28:06 Miller's windmill
30:43 Is Kinderdijk worth it?
31:22 Bloopers
#travel #rotterdam #netherlands #kinderdijk #travelvlog
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Rotterdam post-war photo, public domain

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Bitterballen: breadcrumb coated ragout - deepfried

[@StevenQ74]

You only scratched the surface of Rotterdam, there is so much more to see. Like the Boymans Van Beuningen museum, the Euromast , the Wilhelminapier area with Hotel New York, the Fenix Food Factory at Katendrecht and the boat tour of the modern harbour, but there is so much more

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

I guess we'll have to return!! We actually loved Rotterdam.

[@jihuff1]

Thank you for sharing your travels! I would love if you started with the date and weather. Also, I haven't seen anything about where you stay and how you traveled to each place. Lots of food! I'm not as adventurous as y'all, but I love hearing the descriptions. Thanks again.

[@FinMeg]

Loved this vlog guys ❤

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Thank you so much 😁

[@marksmith7801]

that was a really well informed vlog thank you for the information as this will accompany my trip next week

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Glad it was helpful! 😊😊

[@NaomisAdventures]

Thanks for sharing

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Thanks, Naomi! 😊😊

[@AdLockhorst-bf8pz]

As a tourist in Rotterdam on a bad weather day, try a Metro round trip; check out the subway stations that look interesting and just skip the uninteresting ones. Trust me, quite a few subway stations are well worth a look.

[@Mdgd63]

At a lot railway stations in NL you can hire the OV-fiets. It is not expensive and makes you more flexible in (or just outside) cities!

[@erikh6413]

Instead of Amsterdam, go to Utrecht, Groningen and Maastricht. Also you can look into the "'Hanzesteden"' Search for Dutch Hanzesteden.

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

We love Utrecht! One of the best train museums we've ever been to. The Hanseatic dutch cities look beautiful! Definitely adding them to a list to visit. Thanks!!

[@richardsoane6192]

Great to see you back again as enjoyed your past vlogs big time as so laid back. Do I detect a nod to your friend Tia from One Pack Wanders the human ruler ?

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Yes, you correctly detected a nod to Tia! 😁😁 Good catch!

[@Walts-Travel]

Love the ending. 🤣😂

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

😁😁😁

[@podunkman2709]

They were robbed?

[@margin606]

Very pleasant video to watch.

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 😊😊

[@dimrrider9133]

The prizes are very spicy haha greetz from a carpenter from Breda who helped rebuild the center of Rotterdam for 30 years

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Hi, carpenter! We are a big fan of your work in Rotterdam. 😁😊 (we really loved visiting there - so truly, thank you for your work!)

[@dimrrider9133]

@@TalesFromOurPocket Thank you 🙂

[@user-mx7ee3iy2d]

Stroopwafels are coming from the city off Gouda not from Rotterdam or Amsterdam. best one you teast it in the city off Gouda. the city of cheese and stroopwafels

[@buncharted]

how dare you come to rotterdam and not say hi 😄 you went deep - love that you tried indonesian food here... and kapsalon! 🤤

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

That kapsalon was so unique and delicious! We'll definitely give you a heads up next time!

[@trimdinbusk]

Rotterdam is very Nice. Not All the buzz that Amsterdam has, but relaxed. Still many interesting things to do

[@Tsuma_Vento]

Rotterdam may be a little underrated because of its reputation and -- for Dutch standards -- high crime rate but it definitely isn't one of the best cities here, in my opinion. And I live there. The city itself has its charms but personally I don't like the design choices... Especially the way old architecture is mixed with new like over on Kop van Zuid and Blaak. It often times obstructs (or detracts from) the view on more classic landmarks. It's all over the place. You can't deny the city is a unique one, though. But I feel Amsterdam, Utrecht, Haarlem, Leiden among other smaller towns all rank above Rotterdam in that they are more appealing to the eye. I will say though, Delfshaven is a hidden gem that is often overlooked by tourists. It actually used to be part of Delft back in the Dutch Golden Age.

[@T.R.L.H1991]

the netherlands is more than just 020 (amsterdam) and indonesia food we call it indische eten.

[@Haroekoe]

And my first appartement I bought a couple of doors further down the road from where kapsalon was invented. That was in 1989. I know Delfshaven very well. Bring Americans there, since the Pilgrim fathers departed there, heading towards England to board the Mayflower.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Best Indonesian food is probably in The Hague.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Go to Dordrecht.

[@spoonwinnipeg2021]

When I first saw your reaction to eating something you obviously didn't like in the start of the video, I assumed you were eating herring from a street vendor. I've never seen anyone react like that to bitterballen/kroketten. Try it with mayo next time instead of mustard.

[@spoonwinnipeg2021]

ps: Great video. Worth a follow. Thanks for making me homesick. :)

[@mambamba]

There are other old areas in Rotterdam, like the old North, Kralingen, Scheepvaartskwartier, large parts of Rotterdam West that were not bombed as well. Only the centre was pretty much bombed. Downtown Rotterdam centre prior to the bombing on May 14th 1940, kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJPGkIaPi6dobMU.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Of course they swear that kinderdijk story is true!!

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

😁😁

[@KajiRider1997]

8.50 for kapsalon? normally I expect 6 to 7 euro

[@Haroekoe]

You ate kapsalon five minutes walk away from my home. Bonne appetite 👌🏽

[@podunkman2709]

This just kebab not any "kapsalom". Like all dutch "kitchen".

[@tangtienji]

看到房子外觀這麼漂亮，台灣，唉！什麼時候才能。

[@jsb7975]

In Amsterdam the crowds don't visit the canals that are very historic and filled with 17th century houses and gardens as well if one should walk further-on. (Amsterdam has about 90 MILES of historic canals and 1500 bridges.) Tourists just cross the canals for the 'highlights'. Amsterdam has the biggest 17th century innertown in the world. a paradise for historians. 19th-century renewals of almost every European capital skipped Amsterdam because it simply became poor and the fact that the Netherlands had no king (first republic as a federal nation, before France and then the U.S.) thus no 'grandeur', left old cities as they still can be found through-out the land with many medieval buildings, castels and churches. Rotterdam was whiped-out by the nazi's in may 1940. So you can tell it had to rebuilt the city-centre by scratch. But often aestheticly pleasing. If you like urban-planning as it has become in the last decade or so. Nice to watch this vid !! 🌹💕

[@peli71]

Regarding Indonesian food. The best places to go for Indonesian food are The Hague, Voorburg and Rijswijk (in that order). Although there are a lot very fine Indonesian restaurants (or better: toko’s) in the Netherlands, the best are in the above. There is even a Toko top-50. So maybe for your next trip visit The Hague 😊

[@KajiRider1997]

well obv the mustard was the gross part

[@Walts-Travel]

Is it underrated? 🤔

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

Watch and see, Walt. Watch and see. 😂 😉

[@podunkman2709]

This is Middle East

[@JOEPIE11]

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[@mother-fng-bonswa3612]

Kinderdijk has nothing to do with Rotterdam, its a part of Molenlanden a different area. The ugly thing about the low beautyful vallaeys is the ugly buildings of Rotterdam in the Horizon

[@user-gs3dx2ry2o]

電車の中でいやっほーーって叫んでもいいですか❓

[@TalesFromOurPocket]

そうですね！オランダの電車では、みんなしゃべるんですよ。日本みたいに静かじゃないんです。😂