Alkmaar, The Netherlands - World’s Oldest Cheese Market - YES or NO?

[@MrOoofah]

My Dutch wife and I think you folks are awesome. I’m an American who took a job with Merck in 1996. Like you(Nate) I met a gal in my office( yet she’s Dutch)fell in love, then decided to become a full time Nederlander. We enjoy your channel.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for always following along!

[@Arvixian]

Jullie maken echt geweldige video's!! Ga zo door! Wij gaan over een maandje zelf naar Amerika!, hebben er veel zin in!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Wow! Thank you! We appreciate the support. Have fun in the USA!

[@2012inca]

So there are Americans who actually like drop aka black liquorice. Nate seems to love it.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

He does love it… that makes one of us. 😜

[@ducomaritiem7160]

Well, that's a new fact... when I was a child I fed some drop to my French play friend when on holiday there... you should have seen there faces eating it! They hated it

[@Bduh2]

My 4th brother lives in Alkmaar and when my late wife and I visited them they showed her around there (I, of course, was already familiar with it). She was like a little kid in a candy store. And it wasn't the candy store that got her go berserk but there is a little store where you can still buy household items from the 1600s to today. Needless to say, I still am using the towels, the knives, the cheese slicer, etc. to this day.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

What a nice story, thank you for sharing it. ❤️

[@PaulatenBosch]

Thank you for sharing your story about the most original shop ‘de ouderwetse winkel’ in de Huigenbrouwerstraat in Alkmaar.

[@TerryVogelaar]

In case you want to know: the Dutch word "kogel" can be translated to "bullet" or "cannon ball"

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for the info!

[@rickykuijpers3179]

Living in alkmaar myself. Its been almost a decade since I've been at the cheese market! It's kinda crazy seeing your own town through a tourists perspective

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!

[@Dutchbelg3]

I think you have found the way to go with your videos. Facts, humor, food trials, enjoying the scenery, enjoying a good vibe, less getting bothered by things that are different..

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

But where’s the fun if we aren’t bothered by things that are different and let you all know about it?? 😜

[@Dutchbelg3]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Hahahaha OK I know you 2 a bit by now so I promise not to go too hard on you from now on. But for sure there will be comments from me as I know now you are not scared by a little confrontation 🙂

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Bring it on! 😂

[@peterjanssen2105]

Nice video again, I enjoyed it, it was very interesting, thanks for the time you always put into it

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thank you for watching! We are glad that you enjoyed it!

[@Jan.Folkersma]

The cheese market disappointed (at first) but this vlog was great fun to watch. You making fun of it all and yourselves is what stands out. Seems like you know what your fan base wants to see. No actual data, no information we forget anyways, we want to see you having fun, enjoying Holland (yes Alkmaar is in Holland, trolls) and when there's something you don't like, you tell us what it is. I particularly liked Nate's footage shot in Murica. We had our own kind of Demolition Derby in the late '70s: Achteruit Rijden. I only heard once 'cheese me'. I wonder how many comments will say: dont feed other peoples cats. Cat looked quite happy and healthy. I said it before and I'll say it again: the local Tourist Bureau should pay you big time. Alkmaar is only a 40 minute drive from busy and filthy Amsterdam. And all the tourists drag themselves from one Nutella museum to the next stroopwafel juweler. If only people would listen to you. Oh well. Keep it up!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for always watching our antics, Jan! One city at a time… one cat at a time… 😜

[@dvroegop]

Thanks for visiting my hometown! I am glad you enjoyed it! And the "Great Church" is the one I actually got married in. Sometimes I forget how pretty my town is, until someone from the US visits and tells me what they think of it. Thanks!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Alkmaar was beautiful! How cool to have gotten married in that church!

[@AlbertZonneveld]

The significance of the cannonball is that Alkmaar is the town where the victory started in our 80 year war with Spain on oktober 8 1573.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for the info!

[@Macvriendin]

Yes! And ever since that day, the 8th of Oktober 1573 The Netherlands have been formed into the constitutional monarchy it is today. And the 8th of Oktober itself is a festive day in Alkmaar. Every 8th of oktober is a day off, a free holiday for all Alkmarian citizens! Yeey!

[@skabuoy]

@@Macvriendin A free holiday? Since when, and where do you work, and do they hire people? I never got the day off, ever, and I have never heard any of my relatives or friends talk about it either, so most certainly not ALL Alkmaar citizens.

[@ufob]

​@@MacvriendinFirst it was a republic, after Napoleon a monarchy. We regret it every day.

[@Macvriendin]

@@ufob do you mean that we should have been talking spanish? Under the flag of Spain? Than we would have been a monarchy also. 😉 And no, 'we' do not regret it every day. That is your own opinion. Which is okay, you are entitled to your own opinion, but don't say that 'we' regret it every day.

[@creatiefpaultje7490]

Thank you for the nice review of Alkmaar! We live here since the beginning of this year, but we love it very much. Say cheese!!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thank you for watching! We hope that you enjoy your time there!

[@MrMezmerized]

Automatic like from an Alkmaarder 😊

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Haha, we’ll take it! Thanks for watching!

[@OOComfortZone]

I've been in NL for 6 years and never made it to the market (Alkmaar yes, the cheese market no) so it was really cool to see! also that cheese dip looks AMAZING!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

You should add it to your list of places to visit!

[@ufob]

A real Alkmaarder has never gone to the cheese market I always say😉

[@rico3580]

We have distruction derby in the Netherlands, it mostly the last race in what we call "auto cross " on a amateur fun level, the band and artist you mentioned i never heard of them.. thanks for the video love you honest reviews...😂.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thank you for watching. We might have to check out that destruction derby... ;)

[@skabuoy]

You never heard of Smash Mouth and Sir Mixalot? You must have been born after the 90s.

[@evdweide]

Loved the casual Ferris Bueller reference.

[@Jan.Folkersma]

Ooh I didn't get that. But I did see an Elaine Benes impression.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

YES! You got it. Top 10 favorite movies of all time. 🙌🏻

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

@Jan.Folkersma And yes! That was kind of a deep cut reference because Nate edited part of it out in the final vlog. 😂 Good catch. Classic episode.

[@Bruintjebeer6]

When i was a kid in the 50th and 60th they were still selling cheese on the cheese market. Once a month we went to my old uncle and the cheese market to buy a whole cheese. They stopped with it somewhere in the 70th. Now it is just a tourist attraction. Back than it was only the market itself not everything that is sround it now. I live in Alkmaar and yes it is a tourist trap. Everyone living in this city avoids going there when all the tourists afe out and about. I only go there when i have people over from abroad.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Very cool. Even though it’s touristy, it’s fun to see! Thanks for watching!

[@MartinWebNatures]

As always fun video. Next time Alkmaar for me ✅ list

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

You should! Highly recommend!

[@adventuresbyrust]

OMG grilled cheese with cheese dip. Died and gone to heaven.... 😂

[@andersoncpu]

Agreed 🤤

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It was pretty good… just way too much!

[@andersoncpu]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Never too much, "cheese me!"

[@jpdj2715]

15:18 - the wooden painted green house has its birth year on it: 1575. They started building town hall about 1509. I had thought the architectural style of the house is renaissance, but wiki calls it "gothic" (with later "classicist" extensions/modification).

[@jpdj2715]

Apologies, the house must be considerably older as the date marks a cannonball hitting the house, as you said. In Dutch we use the same word "kogel" for a cannonball as well as the bullet from a gun. The word-abuse happened when torpedo shaped bullets entered the military scene. The word "kogel" implies a round (spherical) shape (ball).

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

We do fact check SOME things on this vlog. Lol. Thanks for watching!

[@jpdj2715]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld - Your fact was right, mine wasn't. I thought I already had commented that to my comment, but now I don't see it here.

[@skabuoy]

I've been living in Alkmaar since I was 8 (that's a couple of decades now), and I didn't even know we had the cheese market on Tuesday evenings now as well! 😲 It used to be Friday morning only, and as an Alkmaarder, one would only go into town then when one absolutely had to, because of the tourist masses. The cheese market itself is a tourist trap. A play to 'entertain' all them tourists, so the Gettysburg reenactment comparison was rather spot on. And at 10:04 is indeed the city flag of Alkmaar. And "the house with the bullet" in Dutch is "het huis met de kogel" and kogel = bullet, true, but it is also short voor kanonskogel (cannonball, or 'cannonbullet' if taken literally), so the name is correct, but you were just given a wrong translation.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

The Tuesday evening market is only during the summertime. It is cool to try and convey to people how things were done in the past to hopefully give them an appreciation of tradition. Thank you for watching!

[@albertkassenaar7735]

the 16 century =1500 til 1600

[@lbergen001]

Indeed, each year the 16th century doesn't begin with 16.. Btw we now live in the 3rd millennium.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Nate is quite embarrassed. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@robinroberts3335]

😂 cheese me 😂 . Brings back memories Alkmaar l was there 1980 . Great place l loved it . Great job guys 👍🏻😂. Cheese out 👍🏻

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for always following along!

[@MiceWillFindYou]

I really love these videos❤❤❤

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thank you for watching!

[@tvaandering]

The cheese market in Alkmaar is definitely a tourist trap. But because you love old buildings, the urgent advice is to travel to Enkhuizen. Not only is Enkhuizen itself a beautiful town, but the Zuiderzee Museum is definitely worth a visit.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for the tip!

[@paulenlindakeijzeraten5254]

I live only 63 minutes south of it. This cheese market has been on my bucket list for 40 years at least. Though I regularly pass Alkmaar on my way to the island of Texel, it has been just out of reach. Thank you for this adventurous report. It leaves me with questions about thebackground stories. You sbould at least have googled the necessity of the funny hopping technique of the cheese carriers and the weight involved. I'll google the mysterious tiles.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Google it and let us know! :)

[@amirarabi3249]

Thank you so much for your information

[@KeesBoons]

Yep, managed to put a smile on my face (again ;o)).

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

That makes us happy! 😃

[@johannes.f.r.]

11:00 There's a Guust Flater comic where he stops and stares up at a building. Everyone else stops to do the same. Then in the final frame he says "Yeah, I definitely need a haircut." I'm a photographer and I get the ame thing whenever I have a serious looking camera out. My wife always likes to watch people stop in the same place to take a picture too.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

That’s so funny… it happens all the time. We draw crowds… even if we are just getting boring “b-roll” shots.

[@ikke5212]

😊😊

[@spieb]

Its Amazing 😂

[@pietervandenadort5468]

Born and raised in Alkmaar. Never been to the cheesemarket

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It seems like it's more for tourists... but thanks for watching!

[@holliepatrickherrick8323]

You are thinking of the Freedom trail in Boston.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Yes, that’s it.

[@lthecatt9667]

Having grown up in Alkmaar, the Cheese Market is... An interesting experience. It is however the only touristy thing, so many are hesitant to shit talk it too much

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It’s worth it. And if that’s the only touristy thing there, they are doing ok! 👍🏻

[@skabuoy]

It is absolutely the biggest thing tourist wise, but it is most certainly NOT the only thing. If it were, then why are there so, so, SO many tourists on days when there's no cheese market. Don't underestimate the small town vibe (called cozy in the video) and still prevalent 'old' architecture!

[@lthecatt9667]

@@skabuoy that's true. When living somewhere one might become blind to what there is

[@highpeaks3598]

Can you guys do videos on the best Indian, Surinamese, and Indonesian restaurants in Amsterdam?

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

That’s a lot of eating……. 😂

[@maevajesse]

Alkmaar has been on my to visit list for a while but it’s a bit far from where I live. But I will go someday. It seems nice and interesting anyway😊 Now, nothing cheese related 🙈but where did you buy your top Katrina? It’s really lovely☺️

[@lthecatt9667]

Alkmaar is nice but might be a bit small if it's the only place you're planning to visit. However, because it's in the centre of the province, you are within an hour train ride of all other major Noord-Holland cities (Amsterdam, Haarlem, Hoorn, and Enkhuizen would be my recommendations)

[@maevajesse]

@@lthecatt9667 thank you, I have visited already a lot of the country (I live here) and I know those cities, so I wouldn’t drive two hours to just visit Alkmaar😁

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It is a cozy town that should definitely be on your list! As for the shirt, it’s probably 4 or 5 years old and from a store in the United States. But thank you for the compliment!

[@KiraNotHere188]

Yeah... Get used to the seagulls if you go on vacation to the Netherlands. 🤣

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Or anywhere near the ocean. Lol.

[@wallyjansen898]

I have been to the cheesemarket in Alkmaar but for the show. If you want to buy cheese, do it in a speciality cheeseshop.

[@deheermailmum5036]

nice video again

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thank you for watching!

[@ivowalvis9228]

You are soooo lucky you did not get attacked by the "terror gull" there, I saw him in your video (close to you) ., He is very big and infamous. He will attack (your food) when it is not that crowded, I like him but most people hate him. He has been famous/ feared for many yrs now. He is brutal in many ways. You recorded even his voice. You recorded a celeb from Alkmaar, without even knowing 😁.

[@adventuresbyrust]

I agree on the creepy girl statue. I wouldn't either Nate. 😂😂

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

😂

[@TIMson888444]

Dear nate, watch out with to much drop. Drop is bad for blood pressure. Enjoy but in small portions 😊

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

He definitely rations himself. These vlogs are a VERY small portion of our “real” lives. 😁

[@NL-001]

The cheesemarket is only for tourist. You’ve got into one of the tourist traps. The same with the sweetshop.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Yes, but we enjoyed both of them. To each their own! Thanks for watching.

[@jsb7975]

LOVE ME the jazz !! Actually Dutch cities (bigger, small and very small) derive from very old times. Their names already existed round 700 /800 AD . From-on the republic (end 15hundreds) a whole vibe of new building-style was develloped and established in the Netherlands during the 16- 17hundreds. From before that only castels, defence-works, and churches survived. At the end of the 18th century the country became poor. Hence the fact that there is so much preserved history in the Netherlands. (+ the invention of the fire-hose brigades) London, Paris exceeded in the 19th-century where Amsterdam didn't , though in the 17th century A'dam was even bigger and 'tourism' was great under travellers at that time. Republic (only one in Europe) and new infrastructers, new art-forms, and science attracted people from all over Europe. Amsterdam still has historically the biggest 17th century in Europe !

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for the info. And for liking the jazz. ;)

[@andersoncpu]

Curious what you level of proficiency in Dutch is? Also, why didn't you buy a wheel of cheese?

[@pethcir]

Anyone ever tell Nate he resembles Beck Bennett? In appearance but also voice.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

That’s a new one!

[@AthlonMDK]

i also live in alkmaar, the cheese market is boring and a tourist trap. Too bad you didnt show a little of the fnidsen, a medival street just across the waagtoren. That street is my favorite place in the whole city. Also once a year the have a medival festival where they re-enact alkmaar during the plague. Perhaps worth a visit, they call it kaeskoppenstad (kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZezXqKblLJrl8U).

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Next time!

[@boerde6202]

Hahahaha, it is a bit of a tourist thing I beleve? Shure, most Dutch love theire cheese.. But lets take tulips for example; A Turkish flower manipulated by the Dutch witch was at a time a good investment.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It is touristy but still interesting to see!

[@boerde6202]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Hahaha, treu. But for me it is Just there? History is pretty interesing tough 👍

[@MinglingWithTheDutch]

it's not "going on". its a great vlog. keep em up.

[@wouterschijf47]

Boston, I have been there in 2023 Fenway park, I am a Dutch Baseball player.

[@JelmerStienstra]

It is very touristic but wouldn’t call it a tourist trap. A tourist trap to me is a place or thing that is very touristy and also charges you an excessive amount of money. Like the Van Wonderen stroopwafels for example 😢

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

We did pay €7 for some poffertjes... but it's different for everyone!

[@J.king87]

casasdecasper is a great B&B !!! Too stay in Alkmaar.

[@alanchoo1843]

Do you know Nate, you look like Seth Meyers 😜😜😜

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

I don’t think he’s ever gotten that one before…

[@adventuresbyrust]

City Hall ❤❤❤

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It’s a beautiful building!

[@Tipschannel-r9m]

Hi

[@paulenlindakeijzeraten5254]

Next time you visit holland, try to buy double salt liquorice "drop". It has become hard to get for some reason. I know only one shop where i can still buy it. Beware though, too much drop has been scientificaly prooven bad for a man's sperm quality.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Nate has a hard NO on the double salty licorice. And we don't want kids anyways.

[@vo4wb]

You climb towers now instead of going to the gym

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Good point!

[@FemmaVanAntwerpen-mw6ey]

I only see them talking all the time

[@LeendeWaardt]

Fake cheese says a Gouda born dutchie. Too much crust, not enough cheese. Too salty, little taste.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

To each their own. Thanks for watching!

[@ducomaritiem7160]

The cheesemarket is stupid. Just visit a good cheese shop outside the centre.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Stupid is a strong word. We enjoyed getting to experience it. And we have also experienced good cheese shops all around the country. But thanks for watching!

[@Tipschannel-r9m]

Hi