I’m from the UK, in the summer of 1969 I was hitch hiking to Sweden and I decided to walk across the Afsluitdijk enclosure dam. I walked along the ocean side which is covered in grass and camped half way along, I clearly remember watching the sun set into the sea from my sleeping bag, in the morning I was joined by two sea birds that followed me almost to the end of the dam. The good old days.
@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy8 жыл бұрын
I rode my bicycle over this amazing dam, and it took more than an hour and a half. While pedaling across it struck me that every metre of that dam involved countless hours of backbreaking work shifting sand and clay and laying protection stones. It's truly a visionary project, I wonder how many nay-sayers Cornelis Lely had to battle with who would claim that it could never be done, that it would fail, destroy all marine life, change the tides or whatever. It was really a daring thing to take on with the technology of the day and it stands as one of the worlds greatest engineering triumphs.
@redpastawench8 жыл бұрын
Many... It took 36 years after his first design before building started. He must be one of the few engineers to have a town named after him (Lelystad).
@johansterk89687 жыл бұрын
It destroyed the whole fishing industry along the Zuiderzee. My grandfather worked on it as a machinist of a tugboat.
@Saartje056 жыл бұрын
It's a choice that had to be made. Saving the country or your grandfather catching fish. Hmmmmm wow, difficult choice.
@tmhood8 жыл бұрын
Great video! I've always wanted to see the Afsluitdijk. It's an extraordinary achievement, I can't understand why it isn't more famous. Beautiful, too.
@victorschepers62863 жыл бұрын
Had er nu maar gelijk een hsl spoorlijn op gemaakt (zuidkant)
@afiqabdul81134 жыл бұрын
It’s such a beautiful place to drive and enjoy the view☺️
@prisco468 жыл бұрын
Grazie per la condivisione
@angm.c.4 жыл бұрын
Great video 👌👌👌
@tusharjoshi70696 жыл бұрын
That's amazing construction
@nasukanasuka22024 жыл бұрын
Indonesia perlu contoh ini
@annahkhomotsorantla16956 жыл бұрын
Amazing construction
@Burcaawi20104 жыл бұрын
ik heb gemist in Nederland. Groetje vanuit het sonnige California
@Kapparie Жыл бұрын
6:32 hahaha toen mocht je nog 130 rijden. 🤣 Back in the early nineties I regularly drove my brother over the Afsluitdijk to the trainstation in Harlingen. From there he went by train to Groningen. I drove my fathers car, it was a Lancie Thema Turbo diesel and a nice car to drive on the afsluitdijk with high speed.😃
@timuk70335 жыл бұрын
excellent
@tofking16 жыл бұрын
Super vidéo , Merçi Monsieur .
@ak-ji3yz6 жыл бұрын
The name of the enclosure dam sounds like someone just randomly pressed a bunch of letters on the keyboard lol. Awesome view
@gidget3305 жыл бұрын
Q: So if you fished there , you could therefore if you wanted catch freshwater fish and if you wanted , you could just walk to the other side and just catch salt water fish?
@bertus1985 жыл бұрын
correct
@thisischetan3 жыл бұрын
what did you say?
@gidget3303 жыл бұрын
@@thisischetan one side catch freshwater fish, if bored. Walk to other side and catch saltwater fish
@blodekont54586 жыл бұрын
Je vergeet de camping op de dijk..het Kazemattenmuseum..de Eerste plek waar Hitler's Blitzkrieg tot een halt werd geroepen, waar de eerste Nederlander sneuvelde in mei 1940 door een Duits gevechtsvliegtuig..
@Ozymandias15 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Afsluitdijk
@renebeussen33744 жыл бұрын
Mijn opa was als kok op die boot en smeerde broodjes met kaas voor de kanonniers
@danadijkgraaf64943 жыл бұрын
Hi Stuart! I would love to use your video in a video edit about the Afsluitdijk. Is that okay for you? For further details, please contact me! :) Thank you!
@aliaksandran63006 жыл бұрын
nice view. like
@blodekont54588 жыл бұрын
It was the first place where Hitler's Blitzkrieg came to a halt..The Germns where stopped here,for 4 days..After the bombing of Rotterdam the dutch surrenured..
@dannystroo7 жыл бұрын
Nee hoor, op wel meer plekken... mede door dijken te breken en polders onder te lopen maar na Rotterdam gaven we het op vanwege de andere steden..
@Stichting_NoFa-p5 жыл бұрын
Hij zei de eerste niet de enige
@AtexPhwin4 жыл бұрын
Everytime I see the name of this dam, I think someone just smashed his head in the typewriter and this was the result.
@StuartsTRAVELvideos4 жыл бұрын
hahaha!
@matthijshannink2 жыл бұрын
Afsluiten means to close something, dijk is dyke. Afsluitdijk. It makes sense if you put it together.
@custer42112 жыл бұрын
That only happens at Bethesda
@victorschepers62865 жыл бұрын
Nice video👍👍🇾🇪😉
@atzeschepers67285 жыл бұрын
Haha mee eens. Het zal het algoritme wel zijn ;-)
@kirkuki21545 жыл бұрын
Alleen Nederland Ik hou van Nederland
@mlydeer4 жыл бұрын
What’s the name of the background music with guitar? I like it so much.
@Dinara1up4 жыл бұрын
It sounds like happy
@AerinHills4 жыл бұрын
@@Dinara1up because it is
@omervatandar78 жыл бұрын
Sehr schön
@deddyfebriyo7615 жыл бұрын
Keren
@victorschepers62865 жыл бұрын
Water as far as from Switzerland can stream here in to the North sea
@dontcheckmychannel-NJ173 жыл бұрын
I'm from Liechtenstein :)
@clarkkent45954 жыл бұрын
Wow
@rescuemeal-42623 жыл бұрын
What is the cost?
@therealdutchidiot Жыл бұрын
Around €800 millon, so a blip when seen in context.
@nibiruresearch2 жыл бұрын
The Afsluitdijk is an important invention. Reference is made to a storm that occurs at most once every 10,000 years. The blocks should be able to survive even that storm. Too bad all these smart men don't know about a recurring natural disaster that our planet is suffering from. This is mentioned in various old books and e.g. also by Plato. That natural disaster is caused by the ninth planet in our solar system that comes close to the sun and planets at high speed every few thousand years. The most famous disaster is the deluge, but also 'the end of times' was caused by that planet. After years of research, I was able to reconstruct a timeline. The next disaster of that great one takes place in the year 7.156 CE. The disaster causes a tidal wave "higher than the highest mountains". Only then will the Afsluitdijk no longer provide sufficient protection. The research can be read as an e-book under the title: Planet 9 = Nibiru. It contains abundant and convincing evidence for the existence of the cycle of disasters and civilizations and contains many images, most of which were unknown. Google: invisible nibiru 9
@scharnhorstkaisarbeethoven8 ай бұрын
Unification of the north sea 👯
@renebeussen33744 жыл бұрын
I broke my speed record there on my Honda CB500 a long time ago 🙄
@curvebuster4 жыл бұрын
It FLAT. 8" per miles squared ? 20 miles long, there should be 266.66 feet of Curvature here ???
@Jo_Kuiper4 жыл бұрын
There is, or we would see all the way across and see Friesland at the 1:20 marker, we don't, we can't even see those buildings a bit before halfway over it, we should see them if the earth would be flat. Neither do we see Friesland yet when he stops at 2:05, and is filming across the water, again: we should if the earth would be flat, but it isn't.
@therealdutchidiot4 жыл бұрын
Get your numbers straight, 8" per mile squared isn't a circle.
@3replybiz3 жыл бұрын
@@Jo_Kuiper If you look out from Amastrand in Copenhagen at Sweden you can actually see the the curve of the earth. Away to your right is the bridge to Sweden, there is an island nearer by, Trekroner fort to your left and 20Km in front of you an old nuclear power station. All big structures spread over a wide area which give you some sense of scale and distance and the correct impression that the sea is curved.
@VinnyTVAdventures7 жыл бұрын
Flat__________________________________Earth ... Wonderful piece of evidence
@Jo_Kuiper4 жыл бұрын
Nope, it shows that the earth isn't flat.
@smiles123318 жыл бұрын
:)))
@GraciaBelievesthatJesusSaves10 ай бұрын
A Dam is importend to as well as a river Flowing to the sea Father in Heaven give all the People of the nations Wisdom ✍️ ...(MUSIC Pharrell 🖐️♥️)
@leonaessens43994 ай бұрын
Huh?
@blodekont54586 жыл бұрын
THE NETHERLANDS ISN'T HOLLAND...HOLLAND IS BUT A SMALL PART OF THE NETHERLANDS !!!!!!
@StuartsTRAVELvideos6 жыл бұрын
Je hebt helemaal gelijk! Echter bewust gebruikt omdat 'Holland' een beter begrip is voor buitenlanders. Het Nederlands Bureau voor Toerisme en Congressen (NBTC) gebruikt de naam 'Holland' als officiële merknaam om toerisme naar Nederland internationaal te promoten. En wat dacht je van de televisieprogramma's Heel Holland Bakt, Ik hou van Holland, Holland's Got Talent en The Voice of Holland? Hier is een leuk (engelstalig) filmpje over dit onderwerp: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3bCeoiGftN4q8U
@vger58575 жыл бұрын
Maak je niet zo druk. Voor buitenlanders is dit veel handiger dan NL.
@Stichting_NoFa-p5 жыл бұрын
@Stuart's Travel Videos Tijd om daar verandering in te brengen
@Ozymandias15 жыл бұрын
Just like England isn't the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island. That is the best analogy to use. Holland was the most powerful province in the Dutch Republic, just like England was the most powerful region of Britain its heyday.
@slc6795 жыл бұрын
Is this comment satire because you have your own video on your channel called ‘the liberation of *holland*’ and if so it is not very obvious
@antonfek40532 жыл бұрын
Ik- 2010
@charliedoang58292 жыл бұрын
geld van het kolonialisme in Indonesië 😆 ik schaam me 😛
@therealdutchidiot Жыл бұрын
Laat alleen maar zien hoe weinig je weet. Ga je daar voor schamen.