Sleeping in a Windmill in The Netherlands! (Friesland and Groningen)

[@andersoncpu]

Do not sell yourselves short, you have talent! You are very good communicators which is a very difficult talent. You are also two very entertaining vloggers. I really enjoy watching your videos and am always waiting for the next one to come out.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Awww… thanks! We enjoy doing it! Appreciate the kind words!

[@andersoncpu]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Take this as the joke it is intended as. You do realize that the only reason I post anything is to help you get more hits on your videos and thus more subscriptions so you can keep posting new content. 🤣 I just make it sound nice so it seems authentic when others read it

[@Lesvel1963]

This is our little village ❤ we love living here and have the city of Groningen nearby to have the best of both worlds. When I sit at my dinner table I can see the mill from my window. Thanks for sharing this with your community on social media. Liked it very much ❤

[@shamimanipa]

😊

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thank you for watching! Your village was a great place to visit!

[@peterjanssen2105]

that was another nice and interesting video, I enjoyed it very much, thank you both

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks Peter!

[@DenUitvreter]

One of the cool things about the Dutch Republic was that very ordinary people or from humble beginnings could get into science, arts and innovation. The tug boats also functioned as public transport in the wetter parts and an English visitor wrote about the lack of class distinction on it, with disgust of course. Many cycle paths in the country side started their life as a path for the tug boat horse.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It is cool. Amazing to see what people could do back then!

[@anouk6644]

My grandfather pulled a tugboat by himself or sometimes with a horse when he could afford it in the 1930’s. Those paths were called ‘jaagpad’ and when those paths became roads, they sometimes kept that name.

[@renevaanhold]

Nice video, good editing, great background music.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks! Appreciate you watching!

[@gigirose1861]

Hello from Kansas! Just found your channel! Definitely have a new subscriber. I am so relieved to find a channel that explores not just the food of countries but also what the culture offers in terms of history, museums, and not just for the sake of racking up countries for clout and your channel. And your sense of humor is fantastic! Thank you and can't wait to see more ☕🌻

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Welcome and thank you! Food definitely is part of our travels but we try to do and see as much as we can wherever we visit. Happy you’re here! 🫶🏻

[@bartlucassen9145]

When people looking at you twice, they just recognized you! Hé there’s Nate and Katerina!😃

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

I think they are just looking at Katrina…🫠

[@ruudvanwuyckhuise6519]

one of your best vlogs. Honest and spontaneous. well done.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Much appreciated!

[@djeekob]

Awesome to see Onderdendam. Im from Middelstum 2 km further. The Radar in Dwingeloo used to be a WW2 Wurzburg Riesse radar

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Such a pretty part of the country!

[@johanjohan4712]

Wat een super toffe video! Woon zelf 20 minuten ervan af, keep up the good work ❤

[@Tuinierenopstrobalen]

The 'bedstee' (or bed closet as you guys call it) is that small to keep warm at night. That's why you see them in the living room or kitchen, as those were the most warm areas of the house back then.

[@tiniselles]

Also in the day people believed that sleeping laid out on your back was dangerous, so they slept sitting up 🤔. That’s why the bedstee’s are short in length.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Looks super cozy… maybe a bit cramped for the modern day, very tall Dutch people.. 🙃

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Sleeping while sitting… not fun! 😬

[@MartinWebNatures]

It was again a great video👍❤️ it

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Really appreciate it!

[@lottifuehrscheim]

The reason for Onderdendam to exist was that a lot of canals that drained the polders came together here with locks and sluices, and the waterboards united here. The mansions there belonged to the rulers of the waterboard, the most important provincial organisation.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Totally makes sense after seeing the waterways there. Such a pretty little village!

[@HelenGill2222]

Hi from West Australia. Identified the large flower..Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. I thought it looked like a hibiscus but found a definite image from Ziiderveld in the Netherlands.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Hope we can make it to W. Australia some day! We have been to the south and the east. Loved it. Thanks for solving our flower mystery!

[@yamahaXVS950]

Very nice video from The Netherlands

[@eltarb67]

Wow what a gift only a few weeks I am following an American couple (Buncharted) on YT because of their great video's about the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and their food 😅. They had two videos About the city Groningen which is not far from Appingedam where I live. And this evening your channel popped up in my recommendations with your Groningen Tour wow I'm a fan and Onderdendam is near my birthplace so i know it very well, thanks for visiting also the smaller places I've subscribed to your channel so I don't miss any new stuff 👌🍀

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for watching and for the sub, we really appreciate it!

[@PepijnVerbeek]

Als nederlander is dit leuk om te kijken. Dit zijn plekken waar ik ook nooit kom.😅

[@dennisvanslingerland2258]

Ook bij mij, veel te ver uit mijn bedstee!!! Groetjes uit Zuid-Holland!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

We gotta see as much as we can! Thanks for watching!

[@bertkassing8541]

OMG if you have found Onderdendam you are really in the Groningen country. As an original Amsterdammer (living in Hoofddorp) I regularly come to Groningen. Beautiful province!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

The drive was so pretty. Many happy cows and sheep enjoying the sun. Gorgeous part of the world!

[@lws7394]

The most underrated beautiful province of NL ! "Er gaat niets boven Groningen " !

[@RenghisKhan]

I ate at de Molenaar three weeks ago. It was excellent.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

It all smelled so good… I felt so bad talking the chef as he seemed really committed to great food. We are big seafood eaters and don’t want to waste nice food.

[@markuserikssen]

The windmill looks awesome! I hope you will visit Friesland again and visit the small city of Dokkum. It's so pretty and overlooked!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Add it to the list! ✅

[@markuserikssen]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld You're welcome here! Let me know if you need any help.

[@Mrevolva]

i love cats and the vlog

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks for watching! Cats are the best.

[@DreHill1]

Your pronunciation of 'Onderdandam' was very good!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

That's a first! ;) Thanks for watching!

[@uuldriks]

Wow, that's like 5km from where I live.

[@lbergen001]

Groningen, Stad en Ommelanden zijn mijn favorieten!!

[@Dutchman626]

Goeiedag eem!🤗

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Next week!

[@mavadelo]

"That is a legit meteorite from Namibia" ... No sir, that is a meteorite from Space.... On a more serious note, it is not uncommon for meteorites to be shiny. It all depends on their composition of course but if for example it contains a lot of silica (the main buildingblock of sand) the very very hot entry into Earth's atmosphere might melt the outside of a meteorite reforming it into a glasslike substance once cooled down. I am sure besides Silica there are other compounds with a similar result. The "bedroom" in the bedroom is called a "Bedstee" (pronounced "bed stay") 8:55 Nate" We found a place in the shade, I don't need to get baked" ... The Sun: "And I took that personally"

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Hahaha. Great point! Space. ✅

[@peteduch2151]

I might be wrong but i heard the frisians where known as the dutch vikings / i do know for a fact that frisian is close to old english

[@buddy1155]

You are correct, frisians can actually understand scandinavian languages pretty easily.

[@DenUitvreter]

They migrated from the North long before the viking era and they fell victim to the Vikings plunder when Frisia stretched to the South af far as today's Belgium. They have quite a reputation for being stubborn and defending their freedom, with foreign rule mostly being tolerated when benevolent and not very controlling.

[@markuserikssen]

@@buddy1155 As a Frisian myself who has lived in Scandinavia before, I do think Scandinavian languages are not the most difficult ones to learn, but without learning it, it's not easy to understand them. The written part is easier, but understanding Swedish, Norwegian or Danish is much harder. I studied Swedish for several years.

[@Columbasta]

I'll one up you: Frisians/Saxons were the og Wikings (yes W instead of V). And the "Dani" oc (Dane, Dene, Denen, Den etc. generic for: lowlander), who when the Romans left the chat, still lived next to them in the area that's now coastal Flanders/Zeeland. Today's Friesland in the NL were the Frisians resettled later on, was still largely submerged back then. When the Frisians and other non-Christianized coastal Germanic ppl had to flee the Christianized Franks (also German, nothing "French"), they became "wijkelingen", as in the Dutch "(uit)wijken" i.e. to flee & resettle. Oldest form is the 7th C. "wícingsceada". They settled partly across the Channel where they founded cities with names ending in -wic (wijk, as in "Wijk bij Duurstede", but also "wickestede" from Beowulf). When later stage Vikings (9th C.) claimed those cities, -wic became -vik (Eoferwic/Jorvik).

[@peteduch2151]

@Columbasta good job are you happy now right now its time for me to go to bed goodbye

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Bedstee: warmer, often built into a wall with a fireplace or oven in the room behind. Too short to lie down as it was thought that sleeping in a sitting position was healthier

[@gerbentvandeveen]

I, have helpt bildt a new windmill. I, made the concrete parts. Greetings from Bunschoten-Spakenburg, the Netherlands.

[@mandje2002]

Bedum!! birth village of one of the best Dutch football players in the world. Arjen Robben

[@Jan.Folkersma]

Robben got the German word 'schwalbe' in the Dutch dictionary.

[@Schurkie505]

@@Jan.Folkersma Rudi Voller is another word for spit collector (kwislpeldoor)

[@keesblom3067]

@@Schurkie505 I guess you mean 'kwispedoor' which was derived from the Portugese word 'cuspidor', brought to us by the VOC (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, in English 'United East-Indian* Company' *Indian, i.e. the present Indonesia

[@rickonice]

Good stuff, I'm planning on exploring Holland further next year and got some great ideas from your vlogs! The fact that they're somewhat comical at times 😏😂 is a plus lol... I have a tip for you since I see you enjoy the occasional meal 😁 Theehuis Rhijnauwen just outside of Utrecht, has thee best pancakes I've probably had anywhere on the globe 😊😋 one question, what was the name of the cafe where you had the orange cake in the planeterium town? 🤔 I'm staying at a farmhouse near Waverveen and was pondering the idea of a day-trip up there but thinking what else I could include 🤔

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

We've actually been to that theehuis: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6Xbdmxml7anbsk The bakery was called Van der Kloet Brood & Banket. Thanks for watching!

[@rickonice]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld Thanks! I didn't see that video but i'll have to check it out! That was my favorite place to eat when I stayed in Utrecht a few years ago! :)

[@Paul_C]

Well, apparently the beds were good enough to rest. A healthy begin of a day.

[@Bduh2]

The moment I saw: "Elderberries" on the screen, Monty Python's The Holy Grail flashed in my mind: ""your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries". Dang Monty Python!!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Love it!

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

Oh shit theyre getting close to my house!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Hello, we are here now. What time is lunch served?

[@JacobBax]

For those wondering, all of these cats they have met have homes, some even have multiple homes if they are bold enough. One of my former cats just moved in, I already had a cat and a catflap. No idea where he came from. No drama, sometimes a fight, but nothing serious.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Smart cats. ;)

[@meneer_wout9526]

Oranjekoek is called “orange cake”, because they use orange peel in the cakes!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Right. But it still should have orange icing. :)

[@meneer_wout9526]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld I get that! However, they are almost always pink! It has something to do with the old recipe for glazing :)

[@ikke5212]

😊😊

[@nikkikamstra1671]

You 2 are cute together.. nice to watch ... and you love cat.. -sub-

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Aww, thank you and there will be more cats in the future. ;) Thanks for the sub!

[@wouterschijf47]

just one question, are you on linkedin ? Salut de Gwada.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Yeah, we are there. You hiring? 😉

[@wouterschijf47]

@@nateandkatrinadotheworld how can I find you, I am at Wouter Schijf

[@Pietje_Piraat]

come back anytime

[@Dutchbelg3]

I really expected some other Dutchie to comment on this but apparently I am the only vinegar-pissing person here 😜 Here it comes ... If you're clearly not intended to drink the fruit juices why open them? This breaks the heat seal and by this reduces the expiry date and if opened professional people managing the venue have to put it to waste. Even if I live in Flanders I am still too Dutch to not comment 😛 I still love the videos regardless 🙂

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Ha, glad you found something to point out. 🤪 The orange juice was consumed. Maybe not the elderberry.. but we had to give it a try! Thanks for watching!

[@Schurkie505]

Oh man you mist Winsum (most beautifull village in the Netherlands 2020), you went the wrong way into Bedum

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

We will have to come back!

[@bjdamn]

Why the wrong way. Bedum is also beautiful.

[@bjdamn]

@@Schurkie505 onzin verkiezingen.kom al jaren in Winsum. Mooiste dorp van Nederland...echt niet

[@wouterschijf47]

jullie zijn een sympathiek stel, on-amerikaans !!

[@Jan.Folkersma]

@@wouterschijf47 100% van alle Amerikaanse stellen die ik ken, zijn sympathiek.

[@wouterschijf47]

@@Jan.Folkersma Dan ken je weinig Amerikaanse Stellen.

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Thanks! We appreciate that! ✌️Some good and bad all over we suppose.

[@harrievantilfotografie]

Why buy bottled water when in the Netherlands the best water comes from the tap! More sustainable than all that plastic

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

The windmill water was kinda warm and we needed something cold… and fizzy…. And yes, we agree 100% and carry fancy water bottle most days. ✌️

[@lukvanleeuwen7603]

Dutch tap water is cleaner than bottled water! You don't have to buy water ever!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Unless you want it to be cold and fizzy…. 🤪 We agree 100%. We grew up avoiding tap water in the US. Now we love it.

[@Hisyam610]

How you sleeping in Netherlands it will explode

[@davidc.w.2908]

You guys need to hurry up. You’re running behind on Buncharted, another KZbin channel by a couple from the USA, who moved to the Netherlands and are doing the same videos about cities in the Netherlands. They made a video about Franeker and the Planetarium not that long ago and their stay inside the windmill is from about a year ago. You’re catching up 😉

[@kappeuter]

Maar nu zonder de flauwe seksgrapjes.

[@Dutchman626]

Please, t's not a competition😉

[@nielsdebakker3283]

Both couples have their own vibe. Both couples are funny though.

[@happylittletree]

no need to compare 😊its normal for many different vloggers to visit places like these which are popular attractions. The more the merrier for people who want to see this type of content!

[@davidc.w.2908]

To all the typical Dutchies who replied. Thank you very much. It seems the wink should have been as large as the windmill to recognize the fun. I often leave comments, just to cheer them up. If I wouldn’t like it, I simply wouldn’t watch it.

[@Bobloxer2023]

Because y’all are so ingeburgerd i love how you pronounce dutch words completely wrong but with a normal and straight face 😂. Like suikerbrood, yours pronounciation is like a dutch farmers would be! Its so funny! Stay here! Never learn proper dutch!

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Just keep watching the videos, ✌️

[@666Maeglin]

wtf you gave away the frisian flag from your "fryske oranjekoeke"

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Nate wanted it more… 😉

[@bjdamn]

Hey, i got married in that windmill

[@nateandkatrinadotheworld]

Nice! Lovely area!