Exploring Amsterdam's Busiest Shopping Street 🇳🇱 (Kalverstraat is amazing)

[@ardamsterdam]

The "Harry Potter" building is called Tuschinski (opened 1921). It is a cinema built in the Dutch Art Deco style. Kiersten mentioned the church striking at 11:45am. That was not a church, but the Munttoren (Regulierstoren built 1480-1487) and used to be part of the city wall. It strikes every 15 minutes.

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@ardamsterdam Thank you for letting us know! 😊

[@Leonardo-ql1qu]

At 3:54 min.: Tuschinski Theatre: Steven Spielberg called it the most beautiful cinema in the world!

[@420today]

I am Dutch and I concider a cheese shop like that a tourist trap! Go to the Albert Cuijp marked for real cheese or the Haarlemmerstraat there is a real cheese shop. Sorry to burst the bubble......

[@raboratory]

The nutella crêpe shops, stroopwafel shops, dubious cheese- & souvenir shops, candy shops, rubber duckie shops & other tourist traps turned my city into a cheap amusement park..

[@papajohnscookie]

I was really surprised by how those shops are just repeated over and over again. It was surreal.

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

We found it bizarre too tbh! Reminded us of the States in a way.

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

What’s the places we need to visit next time we’re in Amsterdam? We want to see the real Amsterdam!

[@hensenb]

@@KierstenandTylertravel After taking in the views (it is beautiful) leave the centre to go explore outside of the tourist trap which the centre has become. The area of your hotel is good (Jordaan). The north part of Amsterdam is less touristy but very much a cultural hotspot. Westerpark area is beautiful for a stroll and a visit to the old factories that have been converted to museums, cinemas and what not. So yadayda, get out of the centre 😁

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@ Our stay was short but we definitely intend to come back someday and take in the “Real Netherlands”. Any recommendation for our next trip?

[@arjan_speelman]

The trash situation in Amsterdam is a combination of too many tourists and an underfunded garbage collection service. It tends to be a lot better outside of Amsterdam.

[@captainchaos3667]

Clock towers in the Netherlands usually strike once on every quarter hour, and count the hour on every whole hour.

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

Good to know!

[@ghostindamachine]

Don't know if you tried it: the Indonesian and Surinamese kitchens. Some breads / sandwiches with Rendang. Or Surinamese Roti. Good times!

[@MrMinimalmyth]

People getting the bottles of drink out of the trash bin and make a mess. They get 15 cents per can or bottle. Also the birds try to get the food out of the bins which also makes a mess

[@ghostindamachine]

Good stuff :)

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@ghostindamachine Thank you!

[@mymemeplex]

When ppl call the cops on you for making too much noise, you have to be really stupid and do stupid things when the cops arrive for you to get arrested. This is not the USA. A warning is appropriate in that scenario, so that's what you get.

[@Hanseaat]

The coffee-shop next to the cafe is because of coffee-shops are not allowed te sell alcohol ;)

[@henkhemming6674]

entertaining,you 2 deserve more subs

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@henkhemming6674 Thank you!

[@goednieuwskrantje-nl]

@13:18 If shops play music, they should probably start to play only royalty free music, just to piss on the recordlabel pieces of crap and lawyers. That would be really really funny and awesome in so many ways

[@joppepeelen]

tha cheese shop is one of the tourist traps.. you can get real old cheap for half the price , at a regular cheese shop or if you really must a albert heijn. been loud is for the americans ;)

[@levycohenisraeldoop]

Don't buy your cheese in a tourist cheese shop, you will pay double 😉

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

The bells go every 15 min or halve hour or hour... not random..

[@12Robyn12]

my family used to own The 'Harry Potter' building😂❤❤❤

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@12Robyn12 That’s really cool!

[@12Robyn12]

Sorry, co-owned.

[@12Robyn12]

@@KierstenandTylertravel Yes it was, my mom learned to walk on the stage of what is now theatre 1, It wasn't just a cinema back in the day, it had stage acts and the Wurlitzer organ was played. It also had a baby changing room built by the ladies toilet on my great-grandfather's order. He couldn't change mom's diapers anywhere so...

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@12Robyn12 I apologize for calling it the Harry Potter building. My descriptive words could use some work. Thank you for sharing! 😊

[@sanderdeboer6034]

Streets being dirty in Amsterdam is mostly because of toerist unfortunately.

[@randar1969]

the 15 cents for small plastic bottles or 5 cents for small tin cans usually beer attracks the homeless fishing out of the bins making a mess... We don't have many homeless unlike the USA their usually (alcohol) addicts that refuse government assistance for various reasons.

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

That makes a lot of sense

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Some bells go every quarter of an hour.

[@Saarloos1960]

You are just two American tourists who fall for every tourist trap.

[@jsb7975]

Amsterdam has the biggest historic 17th century old-town in Europe. It's bigger than Venice. While it has been preserved, Amsterdam doesnt have the 19th-century appartement buildings like many other capitals in Europe. The houses are still individual in their own being and are everywhere in the old-town. Nice vid and comments ! 🌹

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@jsb7975 Thank you! 😊

[@goednieuwskrantje-nl]

Go to FEBO instead of McDonalds if you want really fast food with better prices and better taste and more variety. Just saying

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Those Cheeses are extremely expensive...go to Aldi to get cheese..

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands thank you!

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Drugs are illegal in the Netherlands, but tolerated in these coffee shops, don't smoke on the street..

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands good advice!

[@captainchaos3667]

"Kalverstraatstreet" 😂

[@KierstenandTylertravel]

Oops 🫣